diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 255d37431..222c6ea89 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -4,15 +4,43 @@ Changelog
 
 Development
 ===========
-- QuerySet limit function behaviour: Passing 0 as parameter will return all the documents in the cursor #1611
-- bulk insert updates the ids of the input documents #1919
-- Fix an harmless bug related to GenericReferenceField where modifications in the generic-referenced document
-    were tracked in the parent (#1934)
 - (Fill this out as you fix issues and develop your features).
 =======
-Changes in 0.15.4
-=================
-- Added `DateField` #513
+Changes in 0.16.0
+=================
+- Various improvements to the doc
+- Improvement to code quality
+- POTENTIAL BREAKING CHANGES:
+    - EmbeddedDocumentField will no longer accept references to Document classes in its constructor #1661
+    - Get rid of the `basecls` parameter from the DictField constructor (dead code) #1876
+    - default value of ComplexDateTime is now None (and no longer the current datetime) #1368
+- Fix unhashable TypeError when referencing a Document with a compound key in an EmbeddedDocument #1685
+- Fix bug where an EmbeddedDocument with the same id as its parent would not be tracked for changes #1768
+- Fix the fact that bulk `insert()` was not setting primary keys of inserted documents instances #1919
+- Fix bug when referencing the abstract class in a ReferenceField #1920
+- Allow modification to the document made in pre_save_post_validation to be taken into account #1202
+- Replaced MongoDB 2.4 tests in CI by MongoDB 3.2 #1903
+- Fix side effects of using queryset.`no_dereference` on other documents #1677
+- Fix TypeError when using lazy django translation objects as translated choices #1879
+- Improve 2-3 codebase compatibility #1889
+- Fix the support for changing the default value of ComplexDateTime #1368
+- Improves error message in case an EmbeddedDocumentListField receives an EmbeddedDocument instance
+    instead of a list #1877
+- Fix the Decimal operator inc/dec #1517 #1320
+- Ignore killcursors queries in `query_counter` context manager #1869
+- Fix the fact that `query_counter` was modifying the initial profiling_level in case it was != 0 #1870
+- Repaired the `no_sub_classes` context manager + fix the fact that it was swallowing exceptions #1865
+- Fix index creation error that was swallowed by hasattr under python2 #1688
+- QuerySet limit function behaviour: Passing 0 as parameter will return all the documents in the cursor #1611
+- bulk insert updates the ids of the input documents instances #1919
+- Fix an harmless bug related to GenericReferenceField where modifications in the generic-referenced document
+    were tracked in the parent #1934
+- Improve validator of BinaryField #273
+- Implemented lazy regex compiling in Field classes to improve 'import mongoengine' performance #1806
+- Updated GridFSProxy.__str__  so that it would always print both the filename and grid_id #710
+- Add __repr__ to Q and QCombination #1843
+- fix bug in BaseList.__iter__ operator (was occuring when modifying a BaseList while iterating over it) #1676
+- Added field `DateField`#513
 
 Changes in 0.15.3
 =================
diff --git a/mongoengine/__init__.py b/mongoengine/__init__.py
index e6dc6b9d8..6e15d8b92 100644
--- a/mongoengine/__init__.py
+++ b/mongoengine/__init__.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
            list(signals.__all__) + list(errors.__all__))
 
 
-VERSION = (0, 15, 3)
+VERSION = (0, 16, 0)
 
 
 def get_version():
diff --git a/mongoengine/dereference.py b/mongoengine/dereference.py
index 6c9932230..44266613a 100644
--- a/mongoengine/dereference.py
+++ b/mongoengine/dereference.py
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ def _fetch_objects(self, doc_type=None):
         object_map = {}
         for collection, dbrefs in self.reference_map.iteritems():
 
-            # we use getattr instead of hasattr because as hasattr swallows any exception under python2
+            # we use getattr instead of hasattr because hasattr swallows any exception under python2
             # so it could hide nasty things without raising exceptions (cfr bug #1688))
             ref_document_cls_exists = (getattr(collection, 'objects', None) is not None)