diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index b836c9d..7677b20 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Changelog of clean-python
 
-## 0.16.5 (unreleased)
+## 0.16.5 (2024-09-12)
 ----------------------
 
 - Reverted urllib3 to 2.0.* because of other constraints.
diff --git a/clean_python/__init__.py b/clean_python/__init__.py
index 26bb2ba..c11f78d 100644
--- a/clean_python/__init__.py
+++ b/clean_python/__init__.py
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 from .base import *  # NOQA
 
 # fmt: off
-__version__ = '0.16.5.dev0'
+__version__ = '0.16.5'
 # fmt: on