diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index d3ae783d..f3bf6a4a 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Changelog for six
 
 This file lists the changes in each six version.
 
-Development version
--------------------
+1.16.0
+------
 
 - Pull request #343, issue #341, pull request #349: Port _SixMetaPathImporter to
   Python 3.10.
diff --git a/six.py b/six.py
index 5e7f0ce4..4e15675d 100644
--- a/six.py
+++ b/six.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 import types
 
 __author__ = "Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>"
-__version__ = "1.15.0"
+__version__ = "1.16.0"
 
 
 # Useful for very coarse version differentiation.