diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 25e6dcf39..680b07998 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 General/project-related changes in the hledger project. 
 For package-specific changes, see the package changelogs.
 
-# 87d04911
+# 1.16.1 2019-12-03
 
 
 # 1.16 2019-12-01
diff --git a/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md b/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md
index c323da3fe..c2cb867ea 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Internal/api/developer-ish changes in the hledger-lib (and hledger) packages.
 For user-visible changes, see the hledger package changelog.
 
-# e032eff8
+# 1.16.1 2019-12-03
 
 
 
diff --git a/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md b/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md
index a2637e0e5..67f345461 100644
--- a/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 User-visible changes in hledger-ui.
 See also the hledger changelog.
 
-# d922b6e7
+# 1.16.1 2019-12-03
 
 - use hledger 1.16.1, fixing GHC 8.0/8.2 build
 
diff --git a/hledger-web/CHANGES.md b/hledger-web/CHANGES.md
index de6c90da8..550ea0875 100644
--- a/hledger-web/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger-web/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 User-visible changes in hledger-web.
 See also the hledger changelog.
 
-# 439cb2e5
+# 1.16.1 2019-12-03
 
 - Drop old json dependency (#1190)
 
diff --git a/hledger/CHANGES.md b/hledger/CHANGES.md
index fbdd7dbba..9ee0fed6e 100644
--- a/hledger/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 User-visible changes in the hledger command line tool and library.
 
-# ca08951a
+# 1.16.1 2019-12-03