Preparations for releasing 1.16.0

[Ádám Sághy <ad...@gmail.com>]

Hi  

As part of the preparations for releasing 1.16.0:  
the maintenance/1.16.0 branch was created  
stories that were not assigned to any fix version but were fixed and merged were updated to 1.16.0
stories assigned to 1.16.0 were resolved  
stories still in progress were moved to 1.17.0  

If you notice any problems, please let us know

Regards,  
Adam S

Re: Preparations for releasing 1.16.0

[Adam Monsen <me...@apache.org>]

A serious issue in working capital COB handling was found in 1.16.0 just 
before we were going to announce it. We decided to skip the 1.16.0 
announcement and instead cut a 1.16.1 release.

Here's the issue <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-2995>, 
and here's the patch to fix it 
<https://github.com/apache/fineract/pull/6751>.

I've cherry-picked commits from that PR onto a new releases/1.16.1 
branch. Once the CI build passes we'll get a release candidate out and 
call another vote, and hopefully ship 1.16.1 before the end of the week!

Re: Preparations for releasing 1.16.0

[Adam Monsen <am...@mifos.org>]

Looks great to me! I'm going to start working on building the release
<https://fineract.apache.org/docs/develop/#_step_6_create_distribution>,
sharing progress in the release chat. Aman and Bharath have volunteered to
assist (thank you both!)

We'll do a test build or two and see how it goes... usually the ATR
<https://releases.apache.org/> finds a thing or two that needs adjusting.

I'm going to rename the branch release/1.16.0. We haven't used a
maintenance branch in the last two years while I've been doing this (since
we're bascially just rolling releases and EOL'ing the previous one), but we
can always create maintenance branches if/as necessary.

Reminder that all commits on this release branch will eventually be merged
to develop
<https://fineract.apache.org/docs/develop/#_step_13_close_release_branch>.