Hi, Developer Community! 
The first EAP releases of Jira Software 9.16 and Jira Service Management 5.16 are ready for testing.
This is a Data Center-only release and it doesn’t support Server licenses. With Atlassian Server end of support, you’ll need to ensure you have a valid Data Center license before upgrading to Jira Software 9.16.0 and Jira Service Management 5.16.
You can download the EAP from this page . If you’re using maven.atlassian.com , ther versions are 9.16.0-m0001 for Jira Software and 5.16.0-m0001 for Jira Service Management.
To find out more about breaking changes, new features, and introduced fixes in Jira Software 9.16 and Jira Service Management 5.16, check out the Jira Data Center changelog
If you have any comments, post them below.
Happy testing,
The Jira Data Center team