From 967244d3e416aa64c75a156364255174ea71aec8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hugrbot <CI_testing@quantinuum.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 11:50:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chore(release/hugr-v0.27): release hugr-py 0.16.1

---
 .release-please-manifest.json | 2 +-
 hugr-py/CHANGELOG.md          | 7 +++++++
 hugr-py/pyproject.toml        | 2 +-
 hugr-py/src/hugr/__init__.py  | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 4de3f659b0..42bfcde2ef 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    "hugr-py": "0.16.0"
+    "hugr-py": "0.16.1"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hugr-py/CHANGELOG.md b/hugr-py/CHANGELOG.md
index 98118f4d91..57cddca62b 100644
--- a/hugr-py/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/hugr-py/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.16.1](https://github.com/Quantinuum/hugr/compare/hugr-py-v0.16.0...hugr-py-v0.16.1) (2026-09-01)
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* Simplify package description. ([#3040](https://github.com/Quantinuum/hugr/issues/3040)) ([2868f4a](https://github.com/Quantinuum/hugr/commit/2868f4a5aae74f969ea47caef6a13cec7e8c898e))
+
 ## [0.16.0](https://github.com/Quantinuum/hugr/compare/hugr-py-v0.15.4...hugr-py-v0.16.0) (2026-04-01)
 
 This release changes the default text serialization format from JSON to `MODEL_WITH_EXTS` (the JSON format is now deprecated).
diff --git a/hugr-py/pyproject.toml b/hugr-py/pyproject.toml
index 24938fa6f9..436de76115 100644
--- a/hugr-py/pyproject.toml
+++ b/hugr-py/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "hugr"
-version = "0.16.0"
+version = "0.16.1"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 description = "Quantinuum's common representation for quantum programs"
 license = { file = "LICENCE" }
diff --git a/hugr-py/src/hugr/__init__.py b/hugr-py/src/hugr/__init__.py
index 47f1f473e4..c1ee6a6184 100644
--- a/hugr-py/src/hugr/__init__.py
+++ b/hugr-py/src/hugr/__init__.py
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@
 
 # This is updated by our release-please workflow, triggered by this
 # annotation: x-release-please-version
-__version__ = "0.16.0"
+__version__ = "0.16.1"