diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 8ee6e417..98d98bdb 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 LMDB 0.9 Change Log
 
-LMDB 0.9.16 Release Engineering
+LMDB 0.9.16 Release (2015/08/14)
 	Fix cursor EOF bug (ITS#8190)
 	Fix handling of subDB records (ITS#8181)
 	Fix mdb_midl_shrink() usage (ITS#8200)
diff --git a/lmdb.h b/lmdb.h
index 8a42eb2f..aba7bc93 100644
--- a/lmdb.h
+++ b/lmdb.h
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ typedef int mdb_filehandle_t;
 	MDB_VERINT(MDB_VERSION_MAJOR,MDB_VERSION_MINOR,MDB_VERSION_PATCH)
 
 /** The release date of this library version */
-#define MDB_VERSION_DATE	"https://github.com/ReOpen/ReOpenLDAP"
+#define MDB_VERSION_DATE	"August 14, 2015, https://github.com/ReOpen/ReOpenLDAP"
 
 /** A stringifier for the version info */
 #define MDB_VERSTR(a,b,c,d)	"LMDB " #a "." #b "." #c ": (" d ")"