Scala v2.12.16 released!

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Scala v2.12.16 has been released.

This release improves compatibility with recent JDKs:

• Use ASM 9.3, enabling JDK 19 support (#10000)
• Make -target support JDK 8 through 19 (and deprecate 5 through 7) (#9916)
• Fix codegen for MethodHandle.invoke (et al) under JDK 17 -release (#9930)
• Deprecate AnyVal#formatted(formatString), to avoid conflict with JDK 15+ method (#9783)

and aids cross-compiling with Scala 3:

• Allow ? as a wildcard even without -Xsource:3 (#10005)

and improves security and error reporting:

• Error on source files with Unicode directional formatting characters (#10023, #10030)
• Fix range position end for infix calls ([#9761](https://github.com/scala/scala/p…

Link: Release Scala 2.12.16 · scala/scala · GitHub