diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4ac6044398d1c6af1645d8c121f6194081f48530..6e1c3e14c655ead6a5831247e71838d4bae5de67 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ The changelog is kept as [release notes](https://github.com/smok-serwis/coolamqp
 on GitHub. This file serves to only note what changes
 have been made so far, between releases.
 
-# v1.2.15
+# v1.2.16
 
-* replaced `python-prctl` with `setproctitle` thanks to the latter
-  having less fascist license (BSD vs GNU GPL v3)
+* modified the year in client information in handshake.py
diff --git a/coolamqp/__init__.py b/coolamqp/__init__.py
index 7311807d23fe646b225917dcb431c815655161f4..14a28dc377bd7a984de76d375659b6ef8b0cd865 100644
--- a/coolamqp/__init__.py
+++ b/coolamqp/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '1.2.15'
+__version__ = '1.2.16a1'
diff --git a/coolamqp/uplink/handshake.py b/coolamqp/uplink/handshake.py
index 162d555b92bceeb4f11ebfca982a98490b44de68..defb13f18fc11dc096d17386bf5d7d31a9e0c762 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) 2016-2020 SMOK sp. z o.o.', 'S')),
+    (b'copyright', (b'Copyright (C) 2016-2021 SMOK sp. z o.o.', 'S')),
     (
         b'information', (
             b'Licensed under the MIT License.\nSee https://github.com/smok-serwis/coolamqp for details',