diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5d0bd8f1..a0bbebe7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -186,3 +186,9 @@
 - Fail on older versions
 - Move distro vars to defaults
 - Remove vars
+
+## v1.2.16
+
+- Clean up variables (thanks @jessedefer)
+- Update documentation (thanks @jessedefer)
+- Update CONTRIBUTORS
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index fe3809e9..acf6cfaa 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ Thank you to all these fine folk for helping with ansible-consul!
 - [@bscott](https://github.com/bscott)
 - [@oliverprater](https://github.com/oliverprater)
 - [@Rodjers](https://github.com/Rodjers)
+- [@jessedefer](https://github.com/jessedefer)
diff --git a/version.txt b/version.txt
index 01fff8ad..d90bd18e 100644
--- a/version.txt
+++ b/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v1.2.15
+v1.2.16