diff --git a/bin/version b/bin/version
index d96529e092221e26c8657d345098fb712a513c28..800a9be11eb3e06d12115cbef466fdf8df1f8eae 100755
--- a/bin/version
+++ b/bin/version
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-VERSION="v0.16.0-snapshot"
+VERSION="v0.16.0"
 
 # dynamically pull more interesting stuff from latest git commit
 HASH=$(git show-ref --head --hash=7 head)            # first 7 letters of hash should be enough; that's what GitHub uses