From 97ef96d46bcdd826ddfdc4a1879705049b71ee30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Automated Release Bot <releasebot@cockroachlabs.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 17:06:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Update release notes for v25.2-v25.2.16


From 23bde1360ebab7aada46b25c475dc542564978cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Automated Release Bot <releasebot@cockroachlabs.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 17:06:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Update release notes for v25.2-v25.2.16

---
 src/current/_data/releases.yml | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/current/_data/releases.yml b/src/current/_data/releases.yml
index f116479fa35..996ea1c1fb2 100644
--- a/src/current/_data/releases.yml
+++ b/src/current/_data/releases.yml
@@ -11116,3 +11116,38 @@
       CockroachDB Cloud clusters. To request to upgrade
       a CockroachDB self-hosted cluster to this version,
       [contact support](https://support.cockroachlabs.com/hc/requests/new).
+
+
+- release_name: v25.2.16
+  major_version: v25.2
+  release_date: '2026-04-03'
+  release_type: Production
+  go_version: go1.25.5
+  sha: d4147dd1b03fe3d815a219a6ef2cc2e0ef28c5d1
+  has_sql_only: true
+  has_sha256sum: true
+  mac:
+    mac_arm: true
+    mac_arm_experimental: true
+    mac_arm_limited_access: false
+  windows: true
+  linux:
+    linux_arm: true
+    linux_arm_experimental: false
+    linux_arm_limited_access: false
+    linux_intel_fips: true
+    linux_arm_fips: false
+  docker:
+    docker_image: cockroachdb/cockroach
+    docker_arm: true
+    docker_arm_experimental: false
+    docker_arm_limited_access: false
+  source: true
+  previous_release: v25.2.16
+  cloud_only: true
+  cloud_only_message_short: 'Available only for select CockroachDB Cloud clusters'
+  cloud_only_message: >
+      This version is currently available only for select
+      CockroachDB Cloud clusters. To request to upgrade
+      a CockroachDB self-hosted cluster to this version,
+      [contact support](https://support.cockroachlabs.com/hc/requests/new).

From 7973460ca0611d04bd2b789e4fcca917ba0144d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Automated Release Bot <releasebot@cockroachlabs.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 17:06:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Update release notes for v25.2-v25.2.16

---
 src/current/_includes/releases/v25.2/v25.2.16.md | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/current/_includes/releases/v25.2/v25.2.16.md b/src/current/_includes/releases/v25.2/v25.2.16.md
index 1a7dba0bc6e..1f77b504a33 100644
--- a/src/current/_includes/releases/v25.2/v25.2.16.md
+++ b/src/current/_includes/releases/v25.2/v25.2.16.md
@@ -4,10 +4,9 @@ Release Date: April 3, 2026
 
 {% include releases/new-release-downloads-docker-image.md release=include.release %}
 
-<h3 id="v25-2-16-bug-fixes">Bug fixes</h3>
+<h3 id="v25-2-16-miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h3>
 
-- Fixed a bug where CockroachDB did not always promptly respond to the statement timeout when performing a hash join with an `ON` filter that is mostly `false`. [#164889][#164889]
-- Fixed a bug that could cause row sampling for table statistics to crash a node due to a data race when processing a collated string column with values larger than 400 bytes. This bug has existed since before v23.1. [#165570][#165570]
+- Fixed a bug that caused Logical Data Replication (LDR) job creation to fail during rolling upgrades from v24.3 directly to v25.2. [#167433][#167433]
 
-[#164889]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/164889
-[#165570]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/165570
+
+[#167433]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/167433