diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7bf70067ef..67506eec3e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -167,29 +167,29 @@ The build runs in [GitHub Actions](https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/action
 
 ## Add Parquet as a dependency in Maven
 
-The current release is version `1.14.4`.
+The current release is version `1.15.0`.
 
 ```xml
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
       <artifactId>parquet-common</artifactId>
-      <version>1.14.4</version>
+      <version>1.15.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
       <artifactId>parquet-encoding</artifactId>
-      <version>1.14.4</version>
+      <version>1.15.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
       <artifactId>parquet-column</artifactId>
-      <version>1.14.4</version>
+      <version>1.15.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
       <artifactId>parquet-hadoop</artifactId>
-      <version>1.14.4</version>
+      <version>1.15.0</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 ```
diff --git a/parquet-arrow/pom.xml b/parquet-arrow/pom.xml
index f4d59fba9a..320c7a7d9c 100644
--- a/parquet-arrow/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-arrow/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-avro/pom.xml b/parquet-avro/pom.xml
index 4acf8e7381..43ed92c539 100644
--- a/parquet-avro/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-avro/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-benchmarks/pom.xml b/parquet-benchmarks/pom.xml
index af1444af0a..77df2c101d 100644
--- a/parquet-benchmarks/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-benchmarks/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-cli/pom.xml b/parquet-cli/pom.xml
index 8f199a7ba4..c491918069 100644
--- a/parquet-cli/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-cli/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-column/pom.xml b/parquet-column/pom.xml
index 5dc86b57aa..6a9ebb3d94 100644
--- a/parquet-column/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-column/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-common/pom.xml b/parquet-common/pom.xml
index 85d5e8decc..07d322a799 100644
--- a/parquet-common/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-common/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-encoding/pom.xml b/parquet-encoding/pom.xml
index 1f24e82ae6..eebdde1ef0 100644
--- a/parquet-encoding/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-encoding/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-format-structures/pom.xml b/parquet-format-structures/pom.xml
index e22d8ab262..a63e1c696e 100644
--- a/parquet-format-structures/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-format-structures/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>parquet-format-structures</artifactId>
diff --git a/parquet-generator/pom.xml b/parquet-generator/pom.xml
index ccf3bc0ae8..df056ca609 100644
--- a/parquet-generator/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-generator/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-hadoop-bundle/pom.xml b/parquet-hadoop-bundle/pom.xml
index dbf2c93455..4e5f727b73 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop-bundle/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-hadoop-bundle/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/pom.xml b/parquet-hadoop/pom.xml
index 5d4ca80784..d4aa4b42a7 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-jackson/pom.xml b/parquet-jackson/pom.xml
index 074a7611d4..dea437487c 100644
--- a/parquet-jackson/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-jackson/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-pig-bundle/pom.xml b/parquet-pig-bundle/pom.xml
index fe67109117..e330298c99 100644
--- a/parquet-pig-bundle/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-pig-bundle/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-pig/pom.xml b/parquet-pig/pom.xml
index 2b6e09dda1..db98eeb87b 100644
--- a/parquet-pig/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-pig/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-plugins/parquet-encoding-vector/pom.xml b/parquet-plugins/parquet-encoding-vector/pom.xml
index 4b79efdeb6..797f4be891 100644
--- a/parquet-plugins/parquet-encoding-vector/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-plugins/parquet-encoding-vector/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/parquet-plugins/parquet-plugins-benchmarks/pom.xml b/parquet-plugins/parquet-plugins-benchmarks/pom.xml
index 19e500bdc3..d6ccbfee5c 100644
--- a/parquet-plugins/parquet-plugins-benchmarks/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-plugins/parquet-plugins-benchmarks/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/parquet-protobuf/pom.xml b/parquet-protobuf/pom.xml
index d86e7e423d..c504453f34 100644
--- a/parquet-protobuf/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-protobuf/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/parquet-thrift/pom.xml b/parquet-thrift/pom.xml
index af3d24c321..1e493bbdc9 100644
--- a/parquet-thrift/pom.xml
+++ b/parquet-thrift/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
     <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7431d67a0d..2d0217719a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
   <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
   <artifactId>parquet</artifactId>
-  <version>1.15.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
   <name>Apache Parquet Java</name>
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
     <!-- Guarantees no newer classes/methods/constants are used by parquet. -->
     <hadoop.version>3.3.0</hadoop.version>
     <parquet.format.version>2.10.0</parquet.format.version>
-    <previous.version>1.13.1</previous.version>
+    <previous.version>1.15.0</previous.version>
     <thrift.executable>thrift</thrift.executable>
     <format.thrift.executable>${thrift.executable}</format.thrift.executable>
     <scala.version>2.12.17</scala.version>