diff --git a/perl/Changes b/perl/Changes
index a4a3e364..79108820 100644
--- a/perl/Changes
+++ b/perl/Changes
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-0.16_03
+0.16_04
 
     - no feature changes
 
diff --git a/perl/lib/Data/MessagePack.pm b/perl/lib/Data/MessagePack.pm
index b143e4ae..b08bac2d 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Data/MessagePack.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Data/MessagePack.pm
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use strict;
 use warnings;
 use 5.008001;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.16_03';
+our $VERSION = '0.16_04';
 our $PreferInteger = 0;
 
 our $true  = do { bless \(my $dummy = 1), "Data::MessagePack::Boolean" };