diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d577df6..4daba9f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   * A bug has been fixed in which a lockfile was considered up-to-date when it
     actually wasn't.
 
-## 1.16.0
+## 1.16.0 - 2016-04-26
 
 ### Core library changes
 
diff --git a/tools/VERSION b/tools/VERSION
index 57556a3..ea11638 100644
--- a/tools/VERSION
+++ b/tools/VERSION
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@
 #  * Making cherry-picks to stable channel
 #     - increase PATCH by 1
 #
-CHANNEL be
+CHANNEL dev
 MAJOR 1
 MINOR 17
 PATCH 0
-PRERELEASE 0
+PRERELEASE 3
 PRERELEASE_PATCH 0