From 12618754cc6304f62626c2f43035058627c9afc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 21:42:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release google-cloud-firestore 2.16.1

---
 .release-please-manifest.json                               | 2 +-
 google-cloud-firestore/CHANGELOG.md                         | 6 ++++++
 .../lib/google/cloud/firestore/version.rb                   | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index fd43dfa89239..e0c7c30cdc9b 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
   "google-cloud-filestore+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-filestore-v1": "1.1.0",
   "google-cloud-filestore-v1+FILLER": "0.0.0",
-  "google-cloud-firestore": "2.16.0",
+  "google-cloud-firestore": "2.16.1",
   "google-cloud-firestore+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-firestore-admin": "0.4.1",
   "google-cloud-firestore-admin+FILLER": "0.0.0",
diff --git a/google-cloud-firestore/CHANGELOG.md b/google-cloud-firestore/CHANGELOG.md
index 57f136b5aaf5..2ff29172f8ef 100644
--- a/google-cloud-firestore/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/google-cloud-firestore/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Release History
 
+### 2.16.1 (2025-01-06)
+
+#### Bug Fixes
+
+* correct cursor flipping in limit_to_last ([#28137](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/28137)) 
+
 ### 2.16.0 (2024-07-09)
 
 #### Features
diff --git a/google-cloud-firestore/lib/google/cloud/firestore/version.rb b/google-cloud-firestore/lib/google/cloud/firestore/version.rb
index dae77c855e35..77a003f018e8 100644
--- a/google-cloud-firestore/lib/google/cloud/firestore/version.rb
+++ b/google-cloud-firestore/lib/google/cloud/firestore/version.rb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 module Google
   module Cloud
     module Firestore
-      VERSION = "2.16.0".freeze
+      VERSION = "2.16.1".freeze
     end
   end
 end