diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9983980..84299e0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 News (mainly features/major bug fixes)
 
+portage-3.0.16
+--------------
+* emirrordist supports the content-hash distfiles mirror layout.
 
 portage-3.0.15
 --------------
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index ced60ee..87af750 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 Release Notes; upgrade information mainly.
 Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS
 
+portage-3.0.16
+==================================
+* Bug Fixes:
+    - Bug 721680 Add emirrordist shelve dump/restore
+	- Bug 749333 PORTAGE_REPOSITORIES: don't override repos with aliases
+	- Bug 756778 emirrordist --content-db for content-hash layout support
+	- Bug 772785 don't enable binpkg-multi-instance for existing installs
+	- Bug 772806 prevent infinite loop after empty os.path.dirname result
+
 portage-3.0.15
 ==================================
 * Bug Fixes:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2617c10..96d9932 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@
 
 setup(
 	name = 'portage',
-	version = '3.0.15',
+	version = '3.0.16',
 	url = 'https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage',
 	author = 'Gentoo Portage Development Team',
 	author_email = 'dev-portage@gentoo.org',