diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6a1489b03..6711698f3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ You can see the complete list of recent changes, bugfixes and new features
 in the https://github.com/rkd77/felinks.git[gitweb interface]. See the ChangeLog
 file for details.
 
+ELinks 0.16.0
+-------------
+
+Released on 2022-12-25
+
+* detect xterm on my computer
+
 ELinks 0.16.0rc1
 ----------------
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 85b7a209b..d4537ab65 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([config/m4])
 
 PACKAGE=elinks
-VERSION=0.16.0rc1
+VERSION=0.16.0
 AC_SUBST(PACKAGE)
 AC_SUBST(VERSION)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PACKAGE, "$PACKAGE", [Package version])
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 912d59ce3..9e5b9d5ef 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-project('elinks', ['c','cpp'], version:'0.16.0rc1', license:'GPLv2', default_options:['cpp_std=gnu++17'])
+project('elinks', ['c','cpp'], version:'0.16.0', license:'GPLv2', default_options:['cpp_std=gnu++17'])
 srcs=[]
 
 srcdir = meson.source_root()