diff --git a/beets/__init__.py b/beets/__init__.py
index fbd4e10c3..8447ef96f 100644
--- a/beets/__init__.py
+++ b/beets/__init__.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import os
 import beets.library
 from beets.util import confit
 
-__version__ = '1.3.15'
+__version__ = '1.3.16'
 __author__ = 'Adrian Sampson <adrian@radbox.org>'
 
 Library = beets.library.Library
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 3b6a18be5..1494bd9c9 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+1.3.16 (in development)
+-----------------------
+
+Changelog goes here!
+
+
 1.3.15 (October 17, 2015)
 -------------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index ac5124435..24ea6742d 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ project = u'beets'
 copyright = u'2012, Adrian Sampson'
 
 version = '1.3'
-release = '1.3.15'
+release = '1.3.16'
 
 pygments_style = 'sphinx'
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f5e2cbbcf..94a1c7d27 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ if 'sdist' in sys.argv:
 
 setup(
     name='beets',
-    version='1.3.15',
+    version='1.3.16',
     description='music tagger and library organizer',
     author='Adrian Sampson',
     author_email='adrian@radbox.org',