diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 08273c0..6b6af69 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@
 /AppStream-0.15.3.tar.xz
 /AppStream-0.15.4.tar.xz
 /AppStream-0.15.5.tar.xz
+/AppStream-0.16.1.tar.xz
diff --git a/appstream.spec b/appstream.spec
index 0ed05b4..2496756 100644
--- a/appstream.spec
+++ b/appstream.spec
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
 Summary: Utilities to generate, maintain and access the AppStream database
 Name:    appstream
-Version: 0.15.5
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Version: 0.16.1
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 
 # lib LGPLv2+, tools GPLv2+
 License: GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ mv %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/metainfo/*.xml \
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Feb 11 2023 Neal Gompa <ngompa@fedoraproject.org> - 0.16.1-1
+- Update to 0.16.1
+
 * Wed Jan 18 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.15.5-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index b199102..1b3b38f 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (AppStream-0.15.5.tar.xz) = 83202a8db9a31e4328b2a831b02e65389aad1ba95a4c2b2709084fb843cb3675af6fac73f932a31bb3a6d3ff5db85a863c01528be67d9bbd3b9614a978239771
+SHA512 (AppStream-0.16.1.tar.xz) = 79e139bd0f54534aa37c21d24309c33ee936e737149d6fa5ba0ec50e8ade33c2951d0b1e2ff15729e2a4d274ff1f7ca734bb70efa94539d87a3f949a07fb7d9e