diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 60a44fa..e148ce2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,55 @@
 ChangeLog :
 ===========
 
+2016/03/14 : 1.5.16
+    - BUG/BUILD: replace haproxy-systemd-wrapper with $(EXTRA) in install-bin.
+    - BUG/MINOR: acl: don't use record layer in req_ssl_ver
+    - BUG: http: do not abort keep-alive connections on server timeout
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: http: switch the request channel to no-delay once done.
+    - MINOR: config: extend the default max hostname length to 64 and beyond
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: http: don't enable auto-close on the response side
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: stream: fix half-closed timeout handling
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: cli: changing compression rate-limiting must require admin level
+    - BUILD: freebsd: double declaration
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: sample: urlp can't match an empty value
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: peers: table entries learned from a remote are pushed to others after a random delay.
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: peers: old stick table updates could be repushed.
+    - CLEANUP: haproxy: using _GNU_SOURCE instead of __USE_GNU macro.
+    - BUG/MINOR: chunk: make chunk_dup() always check and set dst->size
+    - MINOR: chunks: ensure that chunk_strcpy() adds a trailing zero
+    - MINOR: chunks: add chunk_strcat() and chunk_newstr()
+    - MINOR: chunk: make chunk_initstr() take a const string
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: config: Adding validation to stick-table expire value.
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: sample: http_date() doesn't provide the right day of the week
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: channel: fix miscalculation of available buffer space.
+    - BUG/MINOR: stream: don't force retries if the server is DOWN
+    - MINOR: unix: don't mention free ports on EAGAIN
+    - BUG/CLEANUP: CLI: report the proper field states in "show sess"
+    - MINOR: stats: send content-length with the redirect to allow keep-alive
+    - BUG: stream_interface: Reuse connection even if the output channel is empty
+    - DOC: remove old tunnel mode assumptions
+    - DOC: add server name at rate-limit sessions example
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: ssl: fix off-by-one in ALPN list allocation
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: ssl: fix off-by-one in NPN list allocation
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: stats: stats bind-process doesn't propagate the process mask correctly
+    - BUG/MINOR: http: Be sure to process all the data received from a server
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: chunks: always reject negative-length chunks
+    - BUG/MINOR: systemd: ensure we don't miss signals
+    - BUG/MINOR: systemd: report the correct signal in debug message output
+    - BUG/MINOR: systemd: propagate the correct signal to haproxy
+    - MINOR: systemd: ensure a reload doesn't mask a stop
+    - CLEANUP: stats: Avoid computation with uninitialized bits.
+    - CLEANUP: pattern: Ignore unknown samples in pat_match_ip().
+    - CLEANUP: map: Avoid memory leak in out-of-memory condition.
+    - BUG/MINOR: tcpcheck: conf parsing error when no port configured on server and last rule is a CONNECT with no port
+    - BUG/MINOR: tcpcheck: fix incorrect list usage resulting in failure to load certain configs
+    - MINOR: cfgparse: warn when uid parameter is not a number
+    - MINOR: cfgparse: warn when gid parameter is not a number
+    - BUG/MINOR: standard: Avoid free of non-allocated pointer
+    - BUG/MINOR: pattern: Avoid memory leak on out-of-memory condition
+    - CLEANUP: http: fix a build warning introduced by a recent fix
+    - BUG/MINOR: log: GMT offset not updated when entering/leaving DST
+
 2015/11/01 : 1.5.15
     - BUG/MINOR: log: missing some ARGC_* entries in fmt_directives()
     - DOC: usesrc root privileges requirements
diff --git a/README b/README
index 3d4272d..e6ab8ba 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
                          ----------------------
                              HAProxy how-to
                          ----------------------
-                             version 1.5.15
+                             version 1.5.16
                              willy tarreau
-                               2015/11/01
+                               2016/03/13
 
 
 1) How to build it
diff --git a/VERDATE b/VERDATE
index 7413bf3..72f0e3c 100644
--- a/VERDATE
+++ b/VERDATE
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 $Format:%ci$
-2015/11/01
+2016/03/14
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index f6ed435..0ed0610 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.5.15
+1.5.16
diff --git a/doc/configuration.txt b/doc/configuration.txt
index 33917e9..22ccb41 100644
--- a/doc/configuration.txt
+++ b/doc/configuration.txt
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
                                 HAProxy
                           Configuration Manual
                          ----------------------
-                             version 1.5.15
+                             version 1.5.16
                              willy tarreau
-                               2015/11/01
+                               2016/03/13
 
 
 This document covers the configuration language as implemented in the version
diff --git a/examples/haproxy.spec b/examples/haproxy.spec
index 1cfbdc3..ca3d73a 100644
--- a/examples/haproxy.spec
+++ b/examples/haproxy.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Summary: HA-Proxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy for high availability environments
 Name: haproxy
-Version: 1.5.15
+Version: 1.5.16
 Release: 1
 License: GPL
 Group: System Environment/Daemons
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@
 %attr(0755,root,root) %config %{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d/%{name}
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Mar 14 2016 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
+- updated to 1.5.16
+
 * Sun Nov  1 2015 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
 - updated to 1.5.15
 
diff --git a/src/haproxy.c b/src/haproxy.c
index c719a94..b665166 100644
--- a/src/haproxy.c
+++ b/src/haproxy.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * HA-Proxy : High Availability-enabled HTTP/TCP proxy
- * Copyright 2000-2014  Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>.
+ * Copyright 2000-2016  Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
 void display_version()
 {
 	printf("HA-Proxy version " HAPROXY_VERSION " " HAPROXY_DATE"\n");
-	printf("Copyright 2000-2015 Willy Tarreau <willy@haproxy.org>\n\n");
+	printf("Copyright 2000-2016 Willy Tarreau <willy@haproxy.org>\n\n");
 }
 
 void display_build_opts()