diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 402b3f041a..e0024d4b6a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Scalding is a Scala library that makes it easy to specify Hadoop MapReduce jobs.
 
 ![Scalding Logo](https://raw.github.com/twitter/scalding/develop/logo/scalding.png)
 
-Current version: `0.15.0`
+Current version: `0.16.0`
 
 ## Word Count
 
diff --git a/scalding-core/src/main/scala/com/twitter/package.scala b/scalding-core/src/main/scala/com/twitter/package.scala
index a9b0009608..971621d3a2 100644
--- a/scalding-core/src/main/scala/com/twitter/package.scala
+++ b/scalding-core/src/main/scala/com/twitter/package.scala
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ package object scalding {
   /**
    * Make sure this is in sync with version.sbt
    */
-  val scaldingVersion: String = "0.15.0"
+  val scaldingVersion: String = "0.16.0"
 
   object RichPathFilter {
     implicit def toRichPathFilter(f: PathFilter) = new RichPathFilter(f)
diff --git a/tutorial/execution-tutorial/ExecutionTutorial.scala b/tutorial/execution-tutorial/ExecutionTutorial.scala
index 2cb786d077..eda25d9d2d 100644
--- a/tutorial/execution-tutorial/ExecutionTutorial.scala
+++ b/tutorial/execution-tutorial/ExecutionTutorial.scala
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ To test it, first build the assembly jar from root directory:
  ./sbt execution-tutorial/assembly
 
 Run:
-  scala -classpath  tutorial/execution-tutorial/target/execution-tutorial-assembly-0.15.0.jar \
+  scala -classpath  tutorial/execution-tutorial/target/execution-tutorial-assembly-0.16.0.jar \
     com.twitter.scalding.tutorial.MyExecJob --local \
     --input tutorial/data/hello.txt \
     --output tutorial/data/execution_output.txt