diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 9e0191f74b..fb94ecb0f9 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ To install:
 Release History
 ---------------
 
-2020-XX-XX Version 0.6.16
+2020-06-09 Version 0.6.16
 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
 **Bugfixes**
diff --git a/msrest/version.py b/msrest/version.py
index 7ec6db3591..0f86a173dd 100644
--- a/msrest/version.py
+++ b/msrest/version.py
@@ -25,4 +25,4 @@
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #: version of this package. Use msrest.__version__ instead
-msrest_version = "0.6.15"
+msrest_version = "0.6.16"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cafaa5f29e..ba1dab27f0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='msrest',
-    version='0.6.15',
+    version='0.6.16',
     author='Microsoft Corporation',
     packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests", "tests.*"]),
     url=("https://github.com/Azure/msrest-for-python"),