diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 319c83cc..e74e71b9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [v0.16.1] - [v0.16.0]
+
 - Pin tokio dependency version to ~1.14 to prevent errors due to their new MSRV 1.49.0
 
 ## [v0.16.0] - [v0.15.0]
@@ -413,4 +415,5 @@ final transaction is created by calling `finish` on the builder.
 [v0.13.0]: https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/compare/v0.12.0...v0.13.0
 [v0.14.0]: https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/compare/v0.13.0...v0.14.0
 [v0.15.0]: https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/compare/v0.14.0...v0.15.0
-[v0.16.0]: https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/compare/v0.15.0...v0.16.0
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+[v0.16.0]: https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/compare/v0.15.0...v0.16.0
+[v0.16.1]: https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/compare/v0.16.0...v0.16.1
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diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d8a5ab46..5efa0cc8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "bdk"
-version = "0.16.1-dev"
+version = "0.16.1"
 edition = "2018"
 authors = ["Alekos Filini <alekos.filini@gmail.com>", "Riccardo Casatta <riccardo@casatta.it>"]
 homepage = "https://bitcoindevkit.org"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index c2043fbc..0423dc4f 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 //! interact with the bitcoin P2P network.
 //!
 //! ```toml
-//! bdk = "0.16.0"
+//! bdk = "0.16.1"
 //! ```
 #![cfg_attr(
     feature = "electrum",