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 # Release History
 
+## 1.16.8 (Unreleased)
+
+### Features Added
+
+### Breaking Changes
+
+- Updated `EVALUATOR_NAME_METRICS_MAPPINGS` so `document_retrieval` and `rouge_score` report single primary metrics (`document_retrieval`, `rouge`), with previous sub-metrics now represented in each evaluator's `*_properties` payload.
+
+### Bugs Fixed
+
+### Other Changes
+
 ## 1.16.7 (Unreleased)
 
 ### Features Added
@@ -13,8 +25,6 @@
 
 ### Breaking Changes
 
-- Updated `EVALUATOR_NAME_METRICS_MAPPINGS` so `document_retrieval` and `rouge_score` report single primary metrics (`document_retrieval`, `rouge`), with previous sub-metrics now represented in each evaluator's `*_properties` payload.
-
 ### Bugs Fixed
 
 - `_TaskNavigationEfficiencyEvaluator` now accepts JSON-stringified `response` and `ground_truth` inputs (e.g., from data pipelines that serialize list/tuple inputs to strings). String inputs are parsed as JSON; on parse failure the original value is preserved so downstream validation surfaces the error as before.