Merge branch '2.16' of github.com:FasterXML/jackson-databind into 2.16

Author: cowtowncoder

README.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Naming of classes uses word 'JSON' in many places even though there is no actual
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 # Get it!
@@ -558,14 +558,14 @@ usually a Jackson module.
 `master` branch is for developing the next major Jackson version -- 3.0 -- but there
 are active maintenance branches in which much of development happens:
 
-* `2.15` is the branch for "next" minor version to release (as of November 2022)
-* `2.14` is the current stable minor 2.x version
-* `2.13` is for selected backported fixes
+* `2.16` is the branch for "next" minor version to release (as of July 2023)
+* `2.15` is the current stable minor 2.x version
+* `2.14` is for selected backported fixes
 
 Older branches are usually not maintained after being declared as closed
 on [Jackson Releases](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/wiki/Jackson-Releases) page,
 but exist just in case a rare emergency patch is needed.
-All released versions have matching git tags (`jackson-dataformats-binary-2.12.3`).
+All released versions have matching git tags (e.g. `jackson-dataformats-binary-2.12.3`).
 
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