diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f1d8e66e4e..ff3ffa1571 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ selfoss
 Copyright (c) 2015 Tobias Zeising, tobias.zeising@aditu.de  
 http://selfoss.aditu.de  
 Licensed under the GPLv3 license  
-Version 2.16-SNAPSHOT
+Version 2.16
 
 
 INSTALLATION
diff --git a/_docs/website/index.html b/_docs/website/index.html
index 7b2f5500d8..cad988674e 100644
--- a/_docs/website/index.html
+++ b/_docs/website/index.html
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ <h1 id="header-name"><span>selfoss</span></h1>
             <li class="documentation">documentation</li>
             <li class="about">about</li>
             <li class="forum"><a href="/forum">forum</a></li>
-            <li class="download"><a href="https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss/releases/download/2.15/selfoss-2.16-SNAPSHOT.zip">download</a></li>
+            <li class="download"><a href="https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss/releases/download/2.16/selfoss-2.16.zip">download</a></li>
         </ul>
 
         <a id="header-fork" href="https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss"></a>
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ <h1 id="header-name"><span>selfoss</span></h1>
 
         <div id="header-just-updated"></div>
 
-        <a id="header-download" href="https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss/releases/download/2.15/selfoss-2.16-SNAPSHOT.zip"><span>download selfoss 2.16-SNAPSHOT</span></a>
+        <a id="header-download" href="https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss/releases/download/2.16/selfoss-2.16.zip"><span>download selfoss 2.16</span></a>
 
         <a id="header-donate" href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=LR67F3T9DMSC8"><span>donate</span></a>
 
diff --git a/common.php b/common.php
index b3d308e667..705c72a29d 100644
--- a/common.php
+++ b/common.php
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 $f3 = require(__DIR__.'/libs/f3/base.php');
 
 $f3->set('DEBUG',0);
-$f3->set('version','2.16-SNAPSHOT');
+$f3->set('version','2.16');
 $f3->set('AUTOLOAD',__dir__.'/;libs/f3/;libs/;libs/WideImage/;daos/;libs/twitteroauth/;libs/FeedWriter/;libs/fulltextrss/content-extractor/;libs/fulltextrss/readability/;libs/WillWashburn/');
 $f3->set('cache',__dir__.'/data/cache');
 $f3->set('BASEDIR',__dir__);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 507d330a54..5a54c898e8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "selfoss",
   "description": "selfoss",
-  "ver": "2.16-SNAPSHOT",
+  "ver": "2.16",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss.git"