diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 198f9b4fda..38c66afcbe 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@gmod/jbrowse",
   "main": "browser/main.js",
-  "version": "1.16.4-alpha.0",
+  "version": "1.16.4",
   "description": "JBrowse - client-side genome browser",
   "repository": "https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse.git",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/release-notes.md b/release-notes.md
index 96dce4730b..4ae691cd32 100644
--- a/release-notes.md
+++ b/release-notes.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{{$NEXT}}
+# Release 1.16.4     2019-04-10 16:58:02 UTC
 
 ## Minor improvements
 
diff --git a/src/JBrowse/package.json b/src/JBrowse/package.json
index 0e2dbbbf0d..b4ce2e5e79 100644
--- a/src/JBrowse/package.json
+++ b/src/JBrowse/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "name": "JBrowse",
-    "version": "1.16.4-alpha.0",
+    "version": "1.16.4",
     "copyright":"© 2007-2017 The Evolutionary Software Foundation",
     "main": "main",
     "dependencies": {
diff --git a/website/blog/2019-04-10-jbrowse-1-16-4.md b/website/blog/2019-04-10-jbrowse-1-16-4.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b1b22708d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/website/blog/2019-04-10-jbrowse-1-16-4.md
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: JBrowse 1.16.4 maintenance release
+date: 2019-04-10
+tags: ["News","Software releases"]
+---
+
+I'm pleased to announce the release of JBrowse 1.16.4. This has a couple of specialized fixes.
+
+One fix provides a better error message if you give improper inputs for tabix or BAI files that actually require CSI indexes. This came up often for people in the wheat genome.
+
+Another helps display multiple transcript features for a gene top level feature from HTMLFeatures
+
+*   [JBrowse-1.16.4.zip](https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/releases/download/1.16.4-release/JBrowse-1.16.4.zip) - minified release
+*   [JBrowse-1.16.4-dev.zip](https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/archive/1.16.4-release.zip) - use this if you modify jbrowse source code or use plugins
+*   [JBrowse-1.16.4-desktop-win32-x64.zip](https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/releases/download/1.16.4-release/JBrowse-1.16.4-desktop-win32-x64.zip)
+*   [JBrowse-1.16.4-desktop-linux-x64.zip](https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/releases/download/1.16.4-release/JBrowse-1.16.4-desktop-linux-x64.zip)
+*   [JBrowse-1.16.4-desktop-darwin-x64.zip](https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/releases/download/1.16.4-release/JBrowse-1.16.4-desktop-darwin-x64.zip)
+
+
+
+
+## Minor improvements
+
+ * Added `indexedFeatures` tracklist attribute for GFF3Tabix track types
+   which controls the feature types from a GFF3Tabix file that are
+   indexed. Thanks to <a href="https://github.com/loraine-gueguen">@loraine-gueguen</a> for the idea and implementation!
+   (<a href="https://github.com/gmod/jbrowse/pull/1337">issue #1337</a>, <a href="https://github.com/loraine-guegen">@loraine-guegen</a>)
+
+ * Added `inferHTMLSubfeatures` which automatically creates multiple
+   mRNA transcripts from a single gene parent feature. Thanks to
+   <a href="https://github.com/abretaud">@abretaud</a> for the idea and implementation! Note that this is enabled
+   by default now (<a href="https://github.com/gmod/jbrowse/pull/1343">issue #1343</a>, <a href="https://github.com/gmod/jbrowse/pull/1340">issue #1340</a>)
+
+ * Updated jbrowse.org website to run entirely off amazon S3 (<a href="https://github.com/gmod/jbrowse/pull/1347">issue #1347</a>,
+   <a href="https://github.com/gmod/jbrowse/pull/1348">issue #1348</a>)
+
+## Bug fixes
+
+ * Added better error reporting to GFF3Tabix tracks for if a parsing
+   error occured. Thanks to <a href="https://github.com/nathanhaigh">@nathanhaigh</a> for reporting (<a href="https://github.com/cmdcolin">@cmdcolin</a>)
+
+ * Added fix for VCF that don't contain alternative alleles (<a href="https://github.com/cmdcolin">@cmdcolin</a>)
+
+ * Added better error handling if there is a case where a tabix file is
+   loaded that is on a genome longer than 2^29. CSI indexes are needed for
+   this. Old versions of tabix which hadn't invented CSI would generate
+   invalid tabix indexes in this case. Thanks to Hans Vasquez-Gross for
+   reporting (<a href="https://github.com/cmdcolin">@cmdcolin</a>)
+
+ * Fixed link in documentation. Thanks <a href="https://github.com/agarciamontoro">@agarciamontoro</a> (<a href="https://github.com/gmod/jbrowse/pull/1341">issue #1341</a>)
+
+ * Fixed issue with ucsc-to-json.pl creating subfeatures with the wrong
+   strand. Thanks to <a href="https://github.com/sachalau">@sachalau</a> for finding and fixing (<a href="https://github.com/gmod/jbrowse/pull/1346">issue #1346</a>)
+
diff --git a/website/siteConfig.js b/website/siteConfig.js
index 74a79972be..b793a558e2 100644
--- a/website/siteConfig.js
+++ b/website/siteConfig.js
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ const createVariableInjectionPlugin = variables => {
 };
 
 const v = {
-  "version": "1.16.3"
+  "version": "1.16.4"
 };
 const siteVariables = {
   version: v.version,