Bump azure-ai-evaluation version to 1.16.8

w-javed · Copilot · w-javed · commit 5e128e1dcb85 · 2026-05-20T13:27:06.000-07:00
Co-authored-by: Copilot &lt;223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com&gt;
diff --git a/sdk/evaluation/azure-ai-evaluation/azure/ai/evaluation/_version.py b/sdk/evaluation/azure-ai-evaluation/azure/ai/evaluation/_version.py
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 # ---------------------------------------------------------
 # represents upcoming version
 
-VERSION = "1.16.7"
+VERSION = "1.16.8"
