diff --git a/coolamqp/__init__.py b/coolamqp/__init__.py
index 14a28dc377bd7a984de76d375659b6ef8b0cd865..8c93b91fe328b50e56256ec423cc7aee575166df 100644
--- a/coolamqp/__init__.py
+++ b/coolamqp/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '1.2.16a1'
+__version__ = '1.2.16a2'
diff --git a/coolamqp/uplink/handshake.py b/coolamqp/uplink/handshake.py
index defb13f18fc11dc096d17386bf5d7d31a9e0c762..dfa6e2599553d5b1ba4a4d8c0afeb9b3ed1b55fc 100644
--- a/coolamqp/uplink/handshake.py
+++ b/coolamqp/uplink/handshake.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ CLIENT_DATA = [
     # these fields to be of type short-string
     (b'product', (b'CoolAMQP', 'S')),
     (b'version', (__version__.encode('utf8'), 'S')),
-    (b'copyright', (b'Copyright (C) 2016-2021 SMOK sp. z o.o.', 'S')),
+    (b'copyright', (b'Copyright (C) 2016-2024 SMOK sp. z o.o.', 'S')),
     (
         b'information', (
             b'Licensed under the MIT License.\nSee https://github.com/smok-serwis/coolamqp for details',