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+2022-01-05 version 3.16.1 (Java)
+
+  Java
+  * Improve performance characteristics of UnknownFieldSet parsing (#9371)
+
 2021-04-06 version 3.16.0 (C++/Java/Python/PHP/Objective-C/C#/Ruby/JavaScript)
 
   C++