diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d5bd42e2c..96bc14925 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,20 +2,20 @@
 
 ## master (unreleased)
 
-### New features
+## 1.16.0 (2024-09-24)
 
 ### Changes
 
-- Bump the injected nREPL version to 1.3.
+- Bump the injected nREPL version to [1.3](https://github.com/nrepl/nrepl/releases/tag/v1.3.0).
+- [#3733](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/issues/3733): Remove support for sideloading. (this experimental feature was removed from nREPL 1.3)
 - Bump the injected `cider-nrepl` to [0.50.2](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider-nrepl/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0502-2024-09-03).
-  * Introduce new backend for CIDER tracing functionality.
+  * Introduce new backend for CIDER tracing functionality (replacing `tools.trace`).
   * Remove special handling of Boot classpath.
-- [#3733](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/issues/3733): Remove support for sideloading. (this experimental feature was removed from nREPL 1.3)
 
 ### Bugs fixed
 
-- [#3722](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/pull/3722): Call `cider-docstring--format` after checking argument is not nil.
-- [#3739](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/pull/3739): Leiningen jack in fails when `cider-enable-nrepl-jvmti-agent` is enabled.
+- [#3722](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/pull/3722): Call `cider-docstring--format` after checking argument is not `nil`.
+- [#3739](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/pull/3739): Leiningen jack-in fails when `cider-enable-nrepl-jvmti-agent` is enabled.
 
 ## 1.15.1 (2024-07-01)
 
diff --git a/cider.el b/cider.el
index 5f9345a52..ec5f5f92d 100644
--- a/cider.el
+++ b/cider.el
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 ;;         Steve Purcell <steve@sanityinc.com>
 ;; Maintainer: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.dev>
 ;; URL: https://www.github.com/clojure-emacs/cider
-;; Version: 1.15.1
+;; Version: 1.16.0
 ;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "26") (clojure-mode "5.19") (parseedn "1.2.1") (queue "0.2") (spinner "1.7") (seq "2.22") (sesman "0.3.2") (transient "0.4.1"))
 ;; Keywords: languages, clojure, cider
 
@@ -93,10 +93,10 @@
 (require 'sesman)
 (require 'package)
 
-(defconst cider-version "1.15.1"
+(defconst cider-version "1.16.0"
   "The current version of CIDER.")
 
-(defconst cider-codename "Cogne"
+(defconst cider-codename "Kherson"
   "Codename used to denote stable releases.")
 
 (defcustom cider-lein-command
diff --git a/doc/antora.yml b/doc/antora.yml
index fd9dacd59..cd2c1b77c 100644
--- a/doc/antora.yml
+++ b/doc/antora.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ name: cider
 title: CIDER
 # We always provide version without patch here (e.g. 1.1),
 # as patch versions should not appear in the docs.
-version: ~
+version: 1.16
 nav:
 - modules/ROOT/nav.adoc