Azure Core July Patch Release (#7211)

Co-authored-by: Anton Kolesnyk <antkmsft@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: antkmsft

sdk/core/azure-core/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,17 +1,11 @@
 # Release History
 
-## 1.17.0-beta.1 (Unreleased)
+## 1.16.4 (2026-07-10)
 
 ### Features Added
 
 - [[#7196]](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-cpp/pull/7196) Added `Azure::Core::Http::Policies::_internal::RetryPolicyBase`, an abstract base class that exposes the retry loop and the protected `ShouldRetryOnResponse`/`ShouldRetryOnTransportFailure` hook points. Service SDKs can derive from `RetryPolicyBase` to customize retry behavior; `RetryPolicy` remains a `final` concrete policy.
 
-### Breaking Changes
-
-### Bugs Fixed
-
-### Other Changes
-
 ## 1.16.3 (2026-04-02)
 
 ### Bugs Fixed

sdk/core/azure-core/src/private/package_version.hpp

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@
 #include <cstdint>
 
 #define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_MAJOR 1
-#define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_MINOR 17
-#define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_PATCH 0
-#define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_PRERELEASE "beta.1"
+#define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_MINOR 16
+#define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_PATCH 4
+#define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_PRERELEASE ""
 
 #define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_ITOA_HELPER(i) #i
 #define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_ITOA(i) AZURE_CORE_VERSION_ITOA_HELPER(i)