diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 89e334e..d1dc77c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 /xml-rs-0.8.13.crate
 /xml-rs-0.8.14.crate
 /xml-rs-0.8.15.crate
+/xml-rs-0.8.16.crate
diff --git a/rust-xml-rs.spec b/rust-xml-rs.spec
index be6611d..537b1e2 100644
--- a/rust-xml-rs.spec
+++ b/rust-xml-rs.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 %global crate xml-rs
 
 Name:           rust-xml-rs
-Version:        0.8.15
+Version:        0.8.16
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        XML library in pure Rust
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 9c668e2..d624b39 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (xml-rs-0.8.15.crate) = 43fa0a0e9b29be92b508b065c0d1fd8f7b80b53011523af031ecc6a57f7bbbc108cea0da4088128b0ca9a24e9b6f83497480876ed00daa7d0e785251ecd673aa
+SHA512 (xml-rs-0.8.16.crate) = 1660f0e0e17b5ba401c17d19856fec55fd02b75de3ba3cb1327ac295503990597ac7a2cf5b8ad0473c1d67b01aee673f29dcadb3cdfa4a7c790a44b892f2da4e
diff --git a/xml-rs-fix-metadata.diff b/xml-rs-fix-metadata.diff
index b53744b..9684dcf 100644
--- a/xml-rs-fix-metadata.diff
+++ b/xml-rs-fix-metadata.diff
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
---- xml-rs-0.8.15/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
-+++ xml-rs-0.8.15/Cargo.toml	2023-07-05T19:33:55.937437+00:00
+--- xml-rs-0.8.16/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
++++ xml-rs-0.8.16/Cargo.toml	2023-07-21T14:59:12.529542+00:00
 @@ -46,10 +46,6 @@
  name = "xml"
  path = "src/lib.rs"