diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 12a41975..3456fb58 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ BUG FIXES:
 - Graceful handling/recovery for apps that have non-determinism or fail to halt
 - Graceful handling/recovery for violations of safety, or liveness
 
-## 0.16.0 (TBD)
+## 0.16.0 (February 20th, 2017)
 
 BREAKING CHANGES:
 - [config] use $TMHOME/config for all config and json files
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
index fc2ac725..a4509542 100644
--- a/version/version.go
+++ b/version/version.go
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ const Fix = "0"
 var (
 	// Version is the current version of Tendermint
 	// Must be a string because scripts like dist.sh read this file.
-	Version = "0.16.0-dev"
+	Version = "0.16.0"
 
 	// GitCommit is the current HEAD set using ldflags.
 	GitCommit string