diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 7731f20e..34fa4a6a 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "2.16.0"
+  ".": "2.16.1"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 65d2f740..d3c83c58 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
+## [2.16.1](https://github.com/supabase/supabase-py/compare/v2.16.0...v2.16.1) (2025-07-05)
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* add note about explicit client.auth.sign_out() for proper shutdown ([#926](https://github.com/supabase/supabase-py/issues/926)) ([#1163](https://github.com/supabase/supabase-py/issues/1163)) ([b657308](https://github.com/supabase/supabase-py/commit/b657308e61253a70cf966b71c58e5b17a83e36a8))
+
 ## [2.16.0](https://github.com/supabase/supabase-py/compare/v2.15.3...v2.16.0) (2025-06-23)
 
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d603ec53..f057a380 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "supabase"
-version = "2.16.0" # {x-release-please-version}
+version = "2.16.1" # {x-release-please-version}
 description = "Supabase client for Python."
 authors = ["Joel Lee <joel@joellee.org>", "Leon Fedden <leonfedden@gmail.com>", "Daniel Reinón García <danielreinon@outlook.com>", "Leynier Gutiérrez González <leynier41@gmail.com>", "Anand", "Andrew Smith <a.smith@silentworks.co.uk>"]
 homepage = "https://github.com/supabase/supabase-py"
diff --git a/supabase/version.py b/supabase/version.py
index fbb92ef3..cc8923e6 100644
--- a/supabase/version.py
+++ b/supabase/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "2.16.0"  # {x-release-please-version}
+__version__ = "2.16.1"  # {x-release-please-version}