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+What's New in 0.16
+==================
+
+Release 0.16 brings some improvements over 0.14.5.  It does not
+break consensus; 0.14-0.14.5 nodes are compatible with 0.16 nodes.
+
+Release Highlights
+------------------
+
+* **Support for Gaia Hub Storage Provider.** This release adds support for
+connecting to our development gaia-hub.
+
+* **New API Endpoint for Getting Name Count.** This release adds support scripts
+to the `API` directory for supporting faster search indexing for new names. This
+also includes support for indexing subdomains.
+
+* **Include support better Support for using Client Payment Keys** This includes support
+for supplying a key to perform payment operations on behalf of a client, and a mock insight-api
+endpoint for obtaining balance for a particular address.
+
+* **Better Support for Configuring Bind Address/Port in Regtest** This adds support for
+setting bind addresses and ports.
+
+Note on Versioning
+------------------
+
+To better align blockstack-core versioning and blockstack-browser versioning,
+we skipped `0.15` entirely.
+