diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index 2f8a2880d..e964fa9a6 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -21,17 +21,21 @@ Thanks to
 - alexis-care
 - Alois Hockenschlohe
 - Andy Walker
+- ann
 - Arjan
 - André Srinivasan
 - andrew-harness
 - Austin Brown
 - banana-sun
+- Bingdom
 - Blaise Thompson
 - brambo123
 - Breina
 - brherger
+- carlok
 - CapraTheBest
 - cgernert
+- Claude Opus 5.5
 - corollaries
 - Chandler Riehm
 - Chris Hung
@@ -88,6 +92,7 @@ Thanks to
 - Kürşat Aktaş
 - laund
 - Logan Gunthorpe
+- Lucas
 - Luke Hoggatt
 - Mark Deneen
 - Marko Luther
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 8e1d72566..335762851 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,32 @@ helps make pymodbus a better product.
 
 :ref:`Authors`: contains a complete list of volunteers have contributed to each major version.
 
+Version 3.16.2
+--------------
+* Discard the late response of a cancelled request (#3076)
+* Fix missed buffered serial replies after a delayed wakeup (#3079)
+* Test case for cancelling request. (#3077)
+* Test wrong response gets discarded. (#3078)
+* Answer ILLEGAL_VALUE for a Write Single Coil value other than 0x0000/0xFF00 (#3074)
+* Partial solve ext. cancel sideeffects. (#3072)
+* Correct CI for PR runs. (#3071)
+* Report bad file record frames as undecodable (#3069)
+* Wait for data when an RTU request arrives split (#3067)
+* return ILLEGAL_VALUE for out-of-range counts (#3066)
+* Correct doc of write_coils / readwrite_registers (#3065)
+* Isolate PDU methods (using decoder). (#3061)
+* Fix decoders.decode() (#3064)
+* Fix convert_to_registers mutate value. (#3063)
+* add fixtures for PDU, socket and content.
+* Combine decode in pdu. (#3060)
+* Allow multiple frames with bad decoding. (#3059)
+* Echo transaction id and device id in exception for undecodable request. (#3056) (#3057)
+* Remove rtu_byte_count_pos from pdu. (#3054)
+* Remove packet when MDAP is wrong. (#3053)
+* Correct fc in exception response. (#3052)
+* Multiple frames in one packet. (#3049)
+* Remove rtu_frame_size from pdu. (#3048)
+
 Version 3.16.1
 --------------
 * Revert changes to serialTransport (allow no pyserial). (#3044)
diff --git a/MAKE_RELEASE.rst b/MAKE_RELEASE.rst
index 0b38e33b4..d963b69f8 100644
--- a/MAKE_RELEASE.rst
+++ b/MAKE_RELEASE.rst
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ Prepare/make release on dev.
    * Control / Update API_changes.rst
    * Update CHANGELOG.rst
       * Add commits from last release, but selectively !
-        git log --oneline v3.16.0..HEAD > commit.log
-        git log --pretty="%an" v3.16.0..HEAD | sort -uf > authors.log
+        git log --oneline v3.16.1..HEAD > commit.log
+        git log --pretty="%an" v3.16.1..HEAD | sort -uf > authors.log
         update AUTHORS.rst and CHANGELOG.rst
         cd doc; ./build_html
    * rm -rf build/* dist/*
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index ac690de74..3bc81d52c 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ as well as the
 `API_changes <https://github.com/pymodbus-dev/pymodbus/blob/dev/API_changes.rst>`_
 files.
 
-Current release is `3.16.1 <https://github.com/pymodbus-dev/pymodbus/releases/tag/v3.16.1>`_.
+Current release is `3.16.2 <https://github.com/pymodbus-dev/pymodbus/releases/tag/v3.16.2>`_.
 
 Bleeding edge (not released) is `dev <https://github.com/pymodbus-dev/pymodbus/tree/dev>`_.
 
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diff --git a/pymodbus/__init__.py b/pymodbus/__init__.py
index 812f44ab2..5e884b478 100644
--- a/pymodbus/__init__.py
+++ b/pymodbus/__init__.py
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@
 from .pdu.device import ModbusDeviceIdentification
 
 
-__version__ = "4.0.0dev16"
+__version__ = "3.16.2"
 __version_full__ = f"[pymodbus, version {__version__}]"