diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index f7f6f2a..3dd3b45 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -279,3 +279,19 @@
 * [Full changelog](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.24.0)
 * Add a maximum version for pysaml2 on Python 3.5
 
+[1.16.0]
+* Update Synapse to 1.25.0
+* [Full changelog](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.25.0)
+* Add an admin API that lets server admins get power in rooms in which local users have power. (#8756)
+* Add optional HTTP authentication to replication endpoints. (#8853)
+* Improve the error messages printed as a result of configuration problems for extension modules. (#8874)
+* Add the number of local devices to Room Details Admin API. Contributed by @dklimpel. (#8886)
+* Add X-Robots-Tag header to stop web crawlers from indexing media. Contributed by Aaron Raimist. (#8887)
+* Spam-checkers may now define their methods as async. (#8890)
+* Add support for allowing users to pick their own user ID during a single-sign-on login. (#8897, #8900, #8911, #8938, #8941, #8942, #8951)
+* Add an email.invite_client_location configuration option to send a web client location to the invite endpoint on the identity server which allows customisation of the email template. (#8930)
+* The search term in the list room and list user Admin APIs is now treated as case-insensitive. (#8931)
+* Apply an IP range blacklist to push and key revocation requests. (#8821, #8870, #8954)
+* Add an option to allow re-use of user-interactive authentication sessions for a period of time. (#8970)
+* Allow running the redact endpoint on workers. (#8994)
+
diff --git a/CloudronManifest.json b/CloudronManifest.json
index 969db5d..414c777 100644
--- a/CloudronManifest.json
+++ b/CloudronManifest.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   "description": "file://DESCRIPTION.md",
   "changelog": "file://CHANGELOG",
   "tagline": "Secure & decentralized communication",
-  "version": "1.15.0-1",
+  "version": "1.16.0",
   "healthCheckPath": "/",
   "httpPort": 8008,
   "memoryLimit": 536870912,
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION.md b/DESCRIPTION.md
index cdf10aa..f2c3a70 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION.md
+++ b/DESCRIPTION.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This app packages Synapse <upstream>1.24.0</upstream>.
+This app packages Synapse <upstream>1.25.0</upstream>.
 
 **This package only provides the Matrix backend. A variety of clients are available
 [here](https://matrix.org/clients/). Riot is a popular web frontend for Matrix and