diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9aee80ba..fdae83c3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ Commit based release not is [release_notes.md](./release_notes.md)
 
 Release tags are https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib/releases .
 
+## 16.1.0 - 2025-03-37
+- Relaxed usable the appium_lib_core deps version to `> 11`
+
 ## 16.0.1 - 2025-03-16
 - Update appium_lib_core deps version condition
 
diff --git a/appium_lib.gemspec b/appium_lib.gemspec
index 0b3e8f2d..e074e8cd 100644
--- a/appium_lib.gemspec
+++ b/appium_lib.gemspec
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.homepage      = 'https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib' # published as appium_lib
   s.require_paths = ['lib']
 
-  s.add_dependency 'appium_lib_core', '>= 9.2.1', '< 11.0'
+  s.add_dependency 'appium_lib_core', '>= 9.2.1', '< 12.0'
   s.add_dependency 'nokogiri', '~> 1.8', '>= 1.8.1'
   s.add_dependency 'tomlrb', '>= 1.1', '< 3.0'