diff --git a/tools/VERSION b/tools/VERSION
index 73354a3..b022ca2 100644
--- a/tools/VERSION
+++ b/tools/VERSION
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@
 #  * Making cherry-picks to stable channel
 #     - increase PATCH by 1
 #
-CHANNEL beta
+CHANNEL stable
 MAJOR 2
 MINOR 16
 PATCH 0
-PRERELEASE 134
-PRERELEASE_PATCH 6
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+PRERELEASE 0
+PRERELEASE_PATCH 0
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