diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 28fc0806f..cfe49808f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ endif()
 # Define project name and version tags
 ###############################################################################################
 # this is not only the QMS version it will be the package version, too.
-project(QMapShack VERSION 1.15.2)
+project(QMapShack VERSION 1.16.0)
 
 # FOR A RELEASE:
 # remove "development" for a release
diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index f6b88b276..25e3ad5ef 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-V1.XX.X
+V1.16.0
 [QMS-220] "Select items from map" misses items
 [QMS-275] Routino: Add Spanish and Czech as selectable languages for turn instructions
 [QMS-279] Track metrics not updated when using UNDO / REDO in Edit mode
diff --git a/src/qmapshack/contributors.h b/src/qmapshack/contributors.h
index 99f15de7b..d9812bddb 100644
--- a/src/qmapshack/contributors.h
+++ b/src/qmapshack/contributors.h
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 constexpr auto contributors = ""
-                              "Albrecht Dress, "
-                              "Christian Eichler, "
-                              "Digia Plc and/or its subsidiaries, "
-                              "Henri Hornburg, "
-                              "Ivo Kronenberg, "
-                              "Joerg Wunsch, "
-                              "Michel Durand, "
-                              "Norbert Truchsess, "
-                              "Oliver Eichler, "
-                              "Peter Schumann, "
-                              "";
+"Albrecht Dress, "
+"Christian Eichler, "
+"Digia Plc and/or its subsidiaries, "
+"Henri Hornburg, "
+"Ivo Kronenberg, "
+"Joerg Wunsch, "
+"Michel Durand, "
+"Norbert Truchsess, "
+"Oliver Eichler, "
+"Peter Schumann, "
+"";