diff --git a/azure-common/HISTORY.rst b/azure-common/HISTORY.rst
index 75027b231eca..1488f3bd32be 100644
--- a/azure-common/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/azure-common/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 Release History
 ===============
 
+1.1.16 (2018-09-26)
++++++++++++++++++++
+
+- azure-nspkg is not installed anymore on Python 3 (PEP420-based namespace package)
+
 1.1.15 (2018-09-13)
 +++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/azure-common/azure/common/_version.py b/azure-common/azure/common/_version.py
index dcf0eeefa5bd..426d3db83894 100644
--- a/azure-common/azure/common/_version.py
+++ b/azure-common/azure/common/_version.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 # license information.
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-VERSION = "1.1.15"
\ No newline at end of file
+VERSION = "1.1.16"
\ No newline at end of file