diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 872a1d2c..67ab1e6b 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1.16.2 (2019 Jul 25)
+====================
+
+Bugfixes
+-------------
+* Fix ``utf-8`` encoding error for Japanese data sets.
+
 1.16.1 (2019 May 27)
 ====================
 
diff --git a/datarobot_batch_scoring/__init__.py b/datarobot_batch_scoring/__init__.py
index 4b2887f7..e4a8b8fa 100644
--- a/datarobot_batch_scoring/__init__.py
+++ b/datarobot_batch_scoring/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '1.16.1'
+__version__ = '1.16.2'