diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 72853c20c..823e6c4d2 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Pint Changelog
 ==============
 
-0.17 (unreleased)
---------------
+0.16.1 (2020-09-22)
+-------------------
 
 - Fix unpickling, now it is using the APP_REGISTRY as expected.
   (Issue #1175)
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index 40c1ce586..50aa8628e 100644
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # flake8: noqa
 
 # fmt: off
-__version__ = '0.17.dev0'
+__version__ = '0.16.1'
 # fmt: on