From 71a918dd5aa2c8eb3e47fc828baba2bc2fdb5b4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:27:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release googleauth 1.16.1

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

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 5677a32..f0af317 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "1.16.0"
+  ".": "1.16.1"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 825f85a..e630df0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Release History
 
+### 1.16.1 (2026-01-15)
+
+#### Bug Fixes
+
+* restore support for JSON keys missing 'type' field ([#558](https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-ruby/issues/558)) 
+
 ### 1.16.0 (2025-11-21)
 
 #### Features
diff --git a/lib/googleauth/version.rb b/lib/googleauth/version.rb
index 2345480..c10a62f 100644
--- a/lib/googleauth/version.rb
+++ b/lib/googleauth/version.rb
@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ module Google
   # Module Auth provides classes that provide Google-specific authorization
   # used to access Google APIs.
   module Auth
-    VERSION = "1.16.0".freeze
+    VERSION = "1.16.1".freeze
   end
 end