diff --git a/META b/META
index 99eff11..ff8c461 100644
--- a/META
+++ b/META
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 ##
   Meta:		1
   Name:		nodediag
-  Version:	1.2.15
+  Version:	1.2.16
   Release:	1
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d34df3d..fbdd37f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+=========================================================================
+Release Notes for nodediag version 1.2.16                     29 Jan 2015
+=========================================================================
+
+* infiniband: flag a zero guid that indicates EEPROM corruption
+  (Jeff Ogden, TOSS-2786)
+
+* mpt2sas: remove stray $ (Rich Fischer, TOSS-2282)
+
 =========================================================================
 Release Notes for nodediag version 1.2.15                     25 Aug 2014
 =========================================================================