diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4bda1a17f6395d7ea226b9fdd1458ab75565da0e..b20fe40fb2d9bc4aa5f837d0ec09b235d4785649 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ our mailinglist to discuss it first.
 
 Please refrain from using the `master` branch for anything else but development purposes!
 Use the most recent release instead. You can list all relaseses by running `git branch -a`
-and switch to one by running `git checkout v2015.1 && make update`.
+and switch to one by running `git checkout v2016.1 && make update`.
 
 If you're using the autoupdater, do not autoupdate nodes with anything but releases.
 If you upgrade using random master commits the nodes *will break* eventually.
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 090de523567bc0e12df288010dc489b9f3ce37a0..66b907eae85eac7f9313b2a37fa5e02359e7ba9f 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ copyright = '2015, Project Gluon'
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '2015.1+'
+version = '2016.1'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2015.1+'
+release = '2016.1'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/docs/releases/v2016.1.rst b/docs/releases/v2016.1.rst
index 426def3db6d7b5f04570d1ce3023d805bdb52206..5a42a1eb6df1ac77b2e24ec44172204d6d4c1983 100644
--- a/docs/releases/v2016.1.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/v2016.1.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Gluon 2016.1 (in development)
-=============================
+Gluon 2016.1
+============
 
 Added hardware support
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/docs/site-example/site.conf b/docs/site-example/site.conf
index 8ebb79bacccfd07ad7151b826d35c9c4124d8037..d9c3cbe408a5c15e8efc177297e5c02d659fefd4 100644
--- a/docs/site-example/site.conf
+++ b/docs/site-example/site.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--- This is an example site configuration for Gluon v2015.1+
+-- This is an example site configuration for Gluon v2016.1
 --
 -- Take a look at the documentation located at
 -- http://gluon.readthedocs.org/ for details.
diff --git a/docs/user/getting_started.rst b/docs/user/getting_started.rst
index 6180364ff8294a07a55797abc33baaaaba419a42..f10f9acf8c7a8943a14832c1f07fe7bd8bf94dc9 100644
--- a/docs/user/getting_started.rst
+++ b/docs/user/getting_started.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Gluon's releases are managed using `Git tags`_. If you are just getting
 started with Gluon we recommend to use the latest stable release of Gluon.
 
 Take a look at the `list of gluon releases`_ and notice the latest release,
-e.g. *v2014.3*. Always get Gluon using git and don't try to download it
+e.g. *v2016.1*. Always get Gluon using git and don't try to download it
 as a Zip archive as the archive will be missing version information.
 
 Please keep in mind that there is no "default Gluon" build; a site configuration
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Building the images
 -------------------
 
 To build Gluon, first check out the repository. Replace *RELEASE* with the
-version you'd like to checkout, e.g. *v2015.1*.
+version you'd like to checkout, e.g. *v2016.1*.
 
 ::