diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a9f8f92ce9b7b108807fcedbab4ad15236b9bb2d..351c849160d06bbc098e53e1fec1f1ac482d0fec 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,9 +1,2 @@
-# v2.16.2
+# v2.16.3
 
-* added optional argument to `File.get_value`
-* added `file_contents` schema 
-* added nested configuration sources
-* added `extract_optional`
-* added some syntactic sugar for the source dict
-* now unparseable "type" entries will be returned as-is
-* added `ConfigurationMisconfiguredError`
diff --git a/satella/__init__.py b/satella/__init__.py
index b34264c0170bdade762aeb84e205670aa068b860..e0d5ec3b7ea035134f90a8d2054afdb7d59b61b7 100644
--- a/satella/__init__.py
+++ b/satella/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '2.16.2'
+__version__ = '2.16.3a1'