diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: uwot
 Title: The Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) Method for Dimensionality Reduction
-Version: 0.1.15.9000
+Version: 0.1.16
 Authors@R: 
     c(person("James", "Melville", email = "jlmelville@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Aaron", "Lun", role="ctb"),person("Mohamed Nadhir", "Djekidel", role="ctb"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-# uwot 0.1.15.9000
+# uwot 0.1.16
+
+## Bug fixes and minor improvements
+
+* A small change to a header file was required to fully support the next version
+of [RcppAnnoy](https://cran.r-project.org/package=RcppAnnoy). Thank
+you [Dirk Eddelbuettel](https://github.com/eddelbuettel) for the PR
+(<https://github.com/jlmelville/uwot/issues/112>).
 
 # uwot 0.1.15
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ the basic method. Translated from the
 
 ## News
 
+*June 28 2023* Version 0.1.16 has been released to CRAN. This is a very minor
+tweak to 0.1.15 to further support the new release of [RcppAnnoy](https://cran.r-project.org/package=RcppAnnoy).
+
 *June 26 2023* Version 0.1.15 has been released to CRAN. This is to support a
 new release of [RcppAnnoy](https://cran.r-project.org/package=RcppAnnoy), but
 there are also some bug fixes and other minor improvements. There are some new
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 55955184..0f26ff2e 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
 ## New minor release
 
-This is a new minor release to support a forthcoming release of one of this 
-package's dependencies, RcppAnnoy. There are also new features and bug fixes.
+This is a new minor release to support a forthcoming release of one of this
+package's dependencies, RcppAnnoy. Testing of the forthcoming submission of
+RcppAnnoy with the previous version of this package identified the need for a
+further modification of uwot to support one of uwot's reverse dependencies.
+Reverse dependency checking of uwot could not have found this until RcppAnnoy is
+updated on CRAN.
+
+## Recent resubmission
+
+0.1.15 was submitted only two days ago. My apologies for the swift resubmission.
+This is to account for the issues found as noted above.
 
 ## Test environments
 
@@ -31,6 +40,9 @@ This is due to the underlying C++ implementation using templates.
 
 ## Package Check Problems
 
+These issues were fixed with the previous release of uwot, but as not all checks
+are complete yet, I am including this here to avoid confusion:
+
 * There is a NOTE: `Specified C++11: please drop specification unless essential`
 -- this has been fixed with this submission.