diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b36881177..5c8242cd6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+Clutter 1.16.0                                                       2013-09-23
+===============================================================================
+
+  • List of changes since Clutter 1.15.96
+
+    - Fix a division by zero in the X11 backend
+
+    - Translation updates
+    Portuguese, Danish
+
+  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.15.96
+
+    #707033 - Hidden division by zero in examples/basic-actor.c
+
+Many thanks to:
+
+  Duarte Loreto, Kenneth Nielsen.
+
 Clutter 1.15.96                                                      2013-09-20
 ===============================================================================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a793b8d28..a85ab91c6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 # - increase clutter_micro_version to the next odd number
 # - increase clutter_interface_version to the next odd number
 m4_define([clutter_major_version], [1])
-m4_define([clutter_minor_version], [15])
-m4_define([clutter_micro_version], [97])
+m4_define([clutter_minor_version], [16])
+m4_define([clutter_micro_version], [0])
 
 # • for stable releases: increase the interface age by 1 for each release;
 #   if the API changes, set to 0. interface_age and binary_age are used to