diff --git a/sdk/evaluation/azure-ai-evaluation/CHANGELOG.md b/sdk/evaluation/azure-ai-evaluation/CHANGELOG.md
index e923bd9dc187..0410ed460b7c 100644
--- a/sdk/evaluation/azure-ai-evaluation/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/sdk/evaluation/azure-ai-evaluation/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,16 +2,10 @@
 
 ## 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 (2026-05-07)
 
 ### Features Added
@@ -23,8 +17,6 @@
 - Added `skipped` to `ResultCount` and `skipped`/`errored` to `PerTestingCriteriaResult` typed contracts.
 - App Insights logging now forwards arbitrary evaluator-specific keys from each event's `properties` payload as a single `gen_ai.evaluation.properties` JSON attribute (carried inside `internal_properties`). Previously only the four red-team keys (`attack_success`, `attack_technique`, `attack_complexity`, `attack_success_threshold`) were forwarded; structured outputs such as rubric `dimension_scores` were silently dropped. Payloads larger than 7500 characters are replaced with a valid JSON marker (`{"truncated": true, "original_size_bytes": <n>}`) so consumers can always `json.loads` the value. Non-dict `properties` payloads are now safely ignored instead of raising in the red-team forwarder.
 
-### Breaking Changes
-
 ### 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.
diff --git a/sdk/evaluation/azure-ai-evaluation/azure/ai/evaluation/_version.py b/sdk/evaluation/azure-ai-evaluation/azure/ai/evaluation/_version.py
index 7f7138b3715f..f8c5d12c048c 100644
--- 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"