Announce 2.16.2

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+title: 2.16.2, The Final Release
+tags: [release]
+---
+
+This week 2.16.2 has been released. It contains some small fixes and features
+that have accumulated over the past two years since the last release.
+
+This will be the last release I make of HexChat. The project has largely been
+unmaintained for years now and nobody else stepped up to do that work.
+
+I want to say thank you to all of the contributors, users, and chatters I've
+interacted with over the years. HexChat was a very important and formative
+project for me; I started contributing to it as a teenager, learned so much,
+met many great people, and it led to greater things in my life. It is hard to
+let go but the time has come for me to move on.
+
+I am going to move all data that I can to be hosted on Github, so all documentation,
+installers, and dependencies will be there until the end of Microsoft.
+
+Forks of the project are welcomed. Nobody can stop the code from living on.
+
+#### Links
+
+- [Downloads](https://hexchat.github.io/downloads.html)
+- [Changelog](https://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html)
+- [Git log](https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/compare/v2.16.1...v2.16.2)