diff --git a/.ansible-core.metadata b/.ansible-core.metadata
index 83fc9d9..bad46ff 100644
--- a/.ansible-core.metadata
+++ b/.ansible-core.metadata
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 560f248ccb0b98256c5b50c86a002c2c1e57edb6 SOURCES/Jinja2-3.1.2.tar.gz
 192b9f6598e1ae036301f72781973c6f46e50aa2 SOURCES/MarkupSafe-2.1.2.tar.gz
-02fbb1496820e07068eeba988a02ca2626b296d2 SOURCES/ansible-core-2.15.3.tar.gz
-f220508f7a7e6f81422fe604035c56eb2532f383 SOURCES/ansible-documentation-2.15.3.tar.gz
+4ae417bcadf07c709e0819f489e08248d9a3971b SOURCES/ansible-core-2.16.3.tar.gz
+7cb698b495d479255d56642ccd8d402dcbd7fe97 SOURCES/ansible-documentation-2.16.3.tar.gz
 6e53dd117d09e6cd5d8596bf99a0dcbb202b8aad SOURCES/docutils-0.20.1.tar.gz
 b8caff3bec760723db6af4092c68075e22bdb769 SOURCES/packaging-21.3.tar.gz
 96464a9452e95e980c3a1fad1020fe00e29c0ae3 SOURCES/pyparsing-3.0.7.tar.gz
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c188552..6665ff2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SOURCES/Jinja2-3.1.2.tar.gz
 SOURCES/MarkupSafe-2.1.2.tar.gz
-SOURCES/ansible-core-2.15.3.tar.gz
-SOURCES/ansible-documentation-2.15.3.tar.gz
+SOURCES/ansible-core-2.16.3.tar.gz
+SOURCES/ansible-documentation-2.16.3.tar.gz
 SOURCES/docutils-0.20.1.tar.gz
 SOURCES/packaging-21.3.tar.gz
 SOURCES/pyparsing-3.0.7.tar.gz
diff --git a/SOURCES/remove-bundled-deps-from-requirements.patch b/SOURCES/remove-bundled-deps-from-requirements.patch
index 8000217..27c3f99 100644
--- a/SOURCES/remove-bundled-deps-from-requirements.patch
+++ b/SOURCES/remove-bundled-deps-from-requirements.patch
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
-index a07aa98506..ef189d6594 100644
+index 5eaf9f2cbc..792daa209a 100644
 --- a/requirements.txt
 +++ b/requirements.txt
-@@ -3,16 +3,8 @@
+@@ -3,13 +3,5 @@
  # packages.  Thus, this should be the loosest set possible (only required
  # packages, not optional ones, and with the widest range of versions that could
  # be suitable)
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ index a07aa98506..ef189d6594 100644
  PyYAML >= 5.1  # PyYAML 5.1 is required for Python 3.8+ support
  cryptography
 -packaging
- # importlib.resources in stdlib for py3.9 is lacking native hooks for
- # importlib.resources.files
- importlib_resources >= 5.0, < 5.1; python_version < '3.10'
 -# NOTE: resolvelib 0.x version bumps should be considered major/breaking
 -# NOTE: and we should update the upper cap with care, at least until 1.0
 -# NOTE: Ref: https://github.com/sarugaku/resolvelib/issues/69
diff --git a/SPECS/ansible-core.spec b/SPECS/ansible-core.spec
index a796548..3098da4 100644
--- a/SPECS/ansible-core.spec
+++ b/SPECS/ansible-core.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-%global __python3 /usr/bin/python3.11
-%global python3_pkgversion 3.11
+%global __python3 /usr/bin/python3.12
+%global python3_pkgversion 3.12
 
 # We need this because we are no longer noarch, since our bundled deps might
 # conceivably need to compile arch-specific things. But we currently have no
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@
 
 Name: ansible-core
 Summary: SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution system
-Version: 2.15.3
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Version: 2.16.3
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 ExcludeArch: i686
 
 Group: Development/Libraries
@@ -210,6 +210,20 @@ strip --strip-unneeded %{vendor_path}/markupsafe/_speedups%{python3_ext_suffix}
 %{python3_sitelib}/ansible_test
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Feb 05 2024 Dimitri Savineau <dsavinea@redhat.com> - 2.16.3-2
+- rebuild with python 3.12 (RHEL-24141)
+
+* Fri Feb 02 2024 Dimitri Savineau <dsavinea@redhat.com> - 2.16.3-1
+- ansible-core 2.16.3 release (RHEL-23782)
+- Fix CVE-2024-0690 (possible information leak in tasks that ignore
+  ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration) (RHEL-22123)
+
+* Tue Dec 12 2023 Dimitri Savineau <dsavinea@redhat.com> - 2.16.2-1
+- ansible-core 2.16.2 release (RHEL-19297)
+
+* Thu Dec 07 2023 Dimitri Savineau <dsavinea@redhat.com> - 2.16.1-1
+- ansible-core 2.16.1 release (RHEL-18965)
+
 * Wed Aug 16 2023 Dimitri Savineau <dsavinea@redhat.com> - 2.15.3-1
 - ansible-core 2.15.3 release (rhbz#2232431)
 - Use docs and examples from ansible-documentation project.