diff --git a/docs/src/data-diving-examples.md b/docs/src/data-diving-examples.md
index 100716ec2..297eca211 100644
--- a/docs/src/data-diving-examples.md
+++ b/docs/src/data-diving-examples.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Vertical-tabular format is good for a quick look at CSV data layout -- seeing wh
wc -l data/flins.csv
- 36635 data/flins.csv
+36635 data/flins.csv
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ Peek at the data:
wc -l data/colored-shapes.dkvp
- 10078 data/colored-shapes.dkvp
+10078 data/colored-shapes.dkvp
diff --git a/docs/src/date-time-examples.md b/docs/src/date-time-examples.md
index 5bcbdac01..cab74de3c 100644
--- a/docs/src/date-time-examples.md
+++ b/docs/src/date-time-examples.md
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ date,qoh
wc -l data/miss-date.csv
- 1372 data/miss-date.csv
+1372 data/miss-date.csv
Since there are 1372 lines in the data file, some automation is called for. To find the missing dates, you can convert the dates to seconds since the epoch using `strptime`, then compute adjacent differences (the `cat -n` simply inserts record-counters):
diff --git a/docs/src/manpage.md b/docs/src/manpage.md
index 14cc7ce9c..39203a0c9 100644
--- a/docs/src/manpage.md
+++ b/docs/src/manpage.md
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ This is simply a copy of what you should see on running `man mlr` at a command p
insertion-ordered hash map. This encompasses a variety of data
formats, including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON.
(Miller can handle positionally-indexed data as a special case.) This
- manpage documents mlr 6.15.0-dev.
+ manpage documents mlr 6.16.0.
1mEXAMPLES0m
mlr --icsv --opprint cat example.csv
@@ -3759,5 +3759,5 @@ This is simply a copy of what you should see on running `man mlr` at a command p
MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files, the Miller docsite
https://miller.readthedocs.io
- 2025-08-20 4mMILLER24m(1)
+ 2026-01-02 4mMILLER24m(1)
diff --git a/docs/src/manpage.txt b/docs/src/manpage.txt
index 4e12b811c..90bff3293 100644
--- a/docs/src/manpage.txt
+++ b/docs/src/manpage.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
insertion-ordered hash map. This encompasses a variety of data
formats, including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON.
(Miller can handle positionally-indexed data as a special case.) This
- manpage documents mlr 6.15.0-dev.
+ manpage documents mlr 6.16.0.
1mEXAMPLES0m
mlr --icsv --opprint cat example.csv
@@ -3738,4 +3738,4 @@
MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files, the Miller docsite
https://miller.readthedocs.io
- 2025-08-20 4mMILLER24m(1)
+ 2026-01-02 4mMILLER24m(1)
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-verbs.md b/docs/src/reference-verbs.md
index f33e8b488..b50c97d7d 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-verbs.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-verbs.md
@@ -4134,7 +4134,7 @@ There are two main ways to use `mlr uniq`: the first way is with `-g` to specify
wc -l data/colored-shapes.csv
- 10079 data/colored-shapes.csv
+10079 data/colored-shapes.csv
@@ -4291,7 +4291,7 @@ color=purple,shape=square,flag=0
wc -l data/repeats.dkvp
- 57 data/repeats.dkvp
+57 data/repeats.dkvp
diff --git a/man/manpage.txt b/man/manpage.txt
index 4e12b811c..90bff3293 100644
--- a/man/manpage.txt
+++ b/man/manpage.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
insertion-ordered hash map. This encompasses a variety of data
formats, including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON.
(Miller can handle positionally-indexed data as a special case.) This
- manpage documents mlr 6.15.0-dev.
+ manpage documents mlr 6.16.0.
1mEXAMPLES0m
mlr --icsv --opprint cat example.csv
@@ -3738,4 +3738,4 @@
MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files, the Miller docsite
https://miller.readthedocs.io
- 2025-08-20 4mMILLER24m(1)
+ 2026-01-02 4mMILLER24m(1)
diff --git a/man/mlr.1 b/man/mlr.1
index 24a9ea61a..f36d5e2f0 100644
--- a/man/mlr.1
+++ b/man/mlr.1
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
.\" Title: mlr
.\" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section]
.\" Generator: ./mkman.rb
-.\" Date: 2025-08-20
+.\" Date: 2026-01-02
.\" Manual: \ \&
.\" Source: \ \&
.\" Language: English
.\"
-.TH "MILLER" "1" "2025-08-20" "\ \&" "\ \&"
+.TH "MILLER" "1" "2026-01-02" "\ \&" "\ \&"
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * Portability definitions
.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ on integer-indexed fields: if the natural data structure for the latter is the
array, then Miller's natural data structure is the insertion-ordered hash map.
This encompasses a variety of data formats, including but not limited to the
familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON. (Miller can handle positionally-indexed data as
-a special case.) This manpage documents mlr 6.15.0-dev.
+a special case.) This manpage documents mlr 6.16.0.
.SH "EXAMPLES"
.sp
diff --git a/miller.spec b/miller.spec
index 9211e0c25..166cb35e0 100644
--- a/miller.spec
+++ b/miller.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Summary: Name-indexed data processing tool
Name: miller
-Version: 6.15.0
+Version: 6.16.0
Release: 1%{?dist}
License: BSD
Source: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/download/%{version}/miller-%{version}.tar.gz
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ make install
%{_mandir}/man1/mlr.1*
%changelog
+* Fri Jan 2 2026 John Kerl - 6.16.0-1
+- 6.16.0 release
+
* Thu Aug 14 2025 John Kerl - 6.15.0-1
- 6.15.0 release
diff --git a/pkg/version/version.go b/pkg/version/version.go
index 98dd71c33..ec9c7208a 100644
--- a/pkg/version/version.go
+++ b/pkg/version/version.go
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ package version
// Nominally things like "6.0.0" for a release, then "6.0.0-dev" in between.
// This makes it clear that a given build is on the main dev branch, not a
// particular snapshot tag.
-var STRING string = "6.15.0-dev"
+var STRING string = "6.16.0"