diff --git a/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl b/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
index 421e7729f8..3fddef5e5e 100755
--- a/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
+++ b/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
@@ -8471,6 +8471,12 @@ if ( CheckVersion($DBversion) ) {
     SetVersion($DBversion);
 }
 
+$DBversion = "3.16.00.000";
+if ( CheckVersion($DBversion) ) {
+    print "Upgrade to $DBversion done (3.16.0 release)\n";
+    SetVersion ($DBversion);
+}
+
 =head1 FUNCTIONS
 
 =head2 TableExists($table)
diff --git a/kohaversion.pl b/kohaversion.pl
index d51ae63078..ebac2874d6 100644
--- a/kohaversion.pl
+++ b/kohaversion.pl
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ the kohaversion is divided in 4 parts :
 use strict;
 
 sub kohaversion {
-    our $VERSION = '3.15.00.052';
+    our $VERSION = '3.16.00.000';
     # version needs to be set this way
     # so that it can be picked up by Makefile.PL
     # during install