diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 3190bc4a..a589f64b 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 Release History
 ---------------
 
+2.16.5 (2017-05-28)
++++++++++++++++++++
+
+- Improvements to ``$ python -m requests.help``.
+
 2.16.4 (2017-05-27)
 +++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/requests/__version__.py b/requests/__version__.py
index b15cda03..94cf7192 100644
--- a/requests/__version__.py
+++ b/requests/__version__.py
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 __title__ = 'requests'
 __description__ = 'Python HTTP for Humans.'
 __url__ = 'http://python-requests.org'
-__version__ = '2.16.4'
-__build__ = 0x021604
+__version__ = '2.16.5'
+__build__ = 0x021605
 __author__ = 'Kenneth Reitz'
 __author_email__ = 'me@kennethreitz.org'
 __license__ = 'Apache 2.0'