diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index bbb75a1b6..f21c0ae0b 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.16.1
\ No newline at end of file
+1.16.2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/messages.json b/messages.json
index 4728c9d09..f99f705c3 100644
--- a/messages.json
+++ b/messages.json
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     "1.15.0": "messages/1.15.0.txt",
     "1.16.0": "messages/1.16.0.txt",
     "1.16.1": "messages/1.16.1.txt",
+    "1.16.2": "messages/1.16.2.txt",
     "1.2.7": "messages/1.2.7.txt",
     "1.2.8": "messages/1.2.8.txt",
     "1.2.9": "messages/1.2.9.txt",
diff --git a/messages/1.16.2.txt b/messages/1.16.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..02a8eb573
--- /dev/null
+++ b/messages/1.16.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+=> 1.16.2
+
+# Features and Fixes
+
+- Fix LspShowScopeNameCommand for the new ContextStackFrame type (#1961) (Raoul Wols)
+- Skip empty stderr messages, don't break on them (Shane Moore)
+- Guard for overflow of the column offset when applying edits (#1952) (Raoul Wols)
+- Fix "side by side go-to" if file is already open (#1950) (Rafał Chłodnicki)
+- doc: Update Go instructions (Lucas Alber)
+- doc: Update documentation for LSP-ltex-ls (Lucas Alber)
+- doc: Add documentation for quick-lint-js language server (Matthew "strager" Glazar)
+- doc: Reorganize documentation for JavaScript/TypeScript (Matthew "strager" Glazar)
diff --git a/plugin/core/version.py b/plugin/core/version.py
index 2a8f3af18..33eefa4b0 100644
--- a/plugin/core/version.py
+++ b/plugin/core/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = (1, 16, 1)
+__version__ = (1, 16, 2)