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+prelude: |
+    The Ironic team is proud to announce the release of Ironic 16.0.
+
+    For over six years, the contributors to this project have continued
+    to drive forth and provide what we collectively feel is the best
+    platform for managing and deploying bare metal hardware.
+
+    The innovation, the drive, and the pursuit of improving infrastructure
+    operators' lives has yet to cease, and has no signs of stopping anytime
+    soon.
+
+    As with any release, we have some things we are particularly proud of::
+      * Support for TLS encryption of Agent communications.
+      * Support for in-band deployment steps enabling software RAID to be
+        configured at deployment time.
+      * Ramdisk/Virtual Media pass-through of ISO images.
+      * BMC-less ``agent`` power control, so BMC's are not required
+        for deployments.
+      * Network configuration injection with virtual media based ramdisks.
+      * Integrated basic authentication for standalone Ironic operators.
+
+    And with any major release, a number of bugs have been fixed. Cross-vendor
+    features see increased parity. Every contributor has something to be proud
+    of in this release. And with that, we hope you enjoy it!