diff --git a/doc/documentation.rst b/doc/documentation.rst
index b7571ede83475250f281a3ef2b5b82f89562328c..4deef3e6da0d2260e48941182f73a7e63031d322 100644
--- a/doc/documentation.rst
+++ b/doc/documentation.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   <div class="container-index">
 
-Documentation of scikit-learn 0.16.0
+Documentation of scikit-learn 0.16.1
 =======================================
 
 .. raw:: html
diff --git a/doc/index.rst b/doc/index.rst
index da11c49c7cc5f37c7fd097365a3b817b3c3d9ba6..0f8559032c1bb51c1384bf1063869a283e99912b 100644
--- a/doc/index.rst
+++ b/doc/index.rst
@@ -252,6 +252,8 @@
                 <li><em>On-going development:</em>
                 <a href="whats_new.html"><em>What's new</em> (changelog)</a>
                 </li>
+                <li><em>April 2015.</em> scikit-learn 0.16.1 is available for download (<a href="whats_new.html">Changelog</a>).
+                </li>
                 <li><em>March 2015.</em> scikit-learn 0.16.0 is available for download (<a href="whats_new.html">Changelog</a>).
                 </li>
                 <li><em>July 2014.</em> scikit-learn 0.15.0 is available for download (<a href="whats_new.html">Changelog</a>).
diff --git a/sklearn/__init__.py b/sklearn/__init__.py
index 9830822fa8d03e929fa7b072291907fc7118ef9f..087a7e620fe40cea43cdb85b7c2c4169e68e6214 100644
--- a/sklearn/__init__.py
+++ b/sklearn/__init__.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ warnings.filterwarnings('always', category=DeprecationWarning,
 # Dev branch marker is: 'X.Y.dev' or 'X.Y.devN' where N is an integer.
 # 'X.Y.dev0' is the canonical version of 'X.Y.dev'
 #
-__version__ = '0.16.0'
+__version__ = '0.16.1'
 
 
 try: