diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6711698f..748df831 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,20 @@ 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 0.16.1
+-------------
+
+Released on 2023-04-30
+
+* handle SECTION html element #207
+* allocate more memory for BLOCKQUOTE #214
+* encode A href to terminal codepage and encode bytes with highest bit set as %HEX #221
+* Serbian translation update
+* install doc by default in meson #224
+* tests fixes
+
 ELinks 0.16.0
 -------------
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 77fb4176..88d90964 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=0.16.0
+VERSION=0.16.1
 AC_SUBST(PACKAGE)
 AC_SUBST(VERSION)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PACKAGE, "$PACKAGE", [Package version])
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 5a31c421..d7f1e311 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-project('elinks', ['c','cpp'], version:'0.16.0', license:'GPLv2', default_options:['cpp_std=gnu++17'])
+project('elinks', ['c','cpp'], version:'0.16.1', license:'GPLv2', default_options:['cpp_std=gnu++17'])
 srcs=[]
 
 srcdir = meson.source_root()