🔖 Release version 0.161.0 (#16597)

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docs/en/docs/release-notes.md

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 ## Latest Changes
 
+## 0.161.0 (2026-10-22)
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 ### Features
 
 * ✨ Add support for combining unions of form models. PR [#16596](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/16596) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

fastapi/__init__.py

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 """FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production"""
 
-__version__ = "0.160.0"
+__version__ = "0.161.0"
 
 from starlette import status as status