diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 9c9295b04..653018937 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 * Add a new table property, "rocksdb.num.range-deletions", which counts the number of range deletion tombstones in the table.
 * Improve the performance of iterators doing long range scans by using readahead, when using direct IO.
 * pin_top_level_index_and_filter (default true) in BlockBasedTableOptions can be used in combination with cache_index_and_filter_blocks to prefetch and pin the top-level index of partitioned index and filter blocks in cache. It has no impact when cache_index_and_filter_blocks is false.
+* Write properties meta-block at the end of block-based table to save read-ahead IO.
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 * Fix deadlock with enable_pipelined_write=true and max_successive_merges > 0
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/version.h b/include/rocksdb/version.h
index 976622b83..a2a6426fb 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/version.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/version.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #define ROCKSDB_MAJOR 5
-#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 15
+#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 16
 #define ROCKSDB_PATCH 0
 
 // Do not use these. We made the mistake of declaring macros starting with