diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 95f4f78..87cfba4 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 ## Changes
 
+# 1.16.0
+
+- add payload to ActiveSupport instrumentation calls
+- only notify load.cached when there are cached documents
+
 # 1.15.0
 
 - cache loading multiple documents
diff --git a/lib/couch_potato/version.rb b/lib/couch_potato/version.rb
index 87b854f..9e33906 100644
--- a/lib/couch_potato/version.rb
+++ b/lib/couch_potato/version.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 module CouchPotato
-  VERSION = '1.15.0'.freeze
+  VERSION = '1.16.0'.freeze
   RSPEC_VERSION = '4.1.0'.freeze
 end