diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fd8649b..afa6859 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -109,3 +109,4 @@
 /awscli-1.16.249.tar.gz
 /awscli-1.16.250.tar.gz
 /awscli-1.16.251.tar.gz
+/awscli-1.16.252.tar.gz
diff --git a/awscli.spec b/awscli.spec
index 301bbe9..3f5cb60 100644
--- a/awscli.spec
+++ b/awscli.spec
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
 %bcond_without python3
 %endif
 
-%global botocore_version        1.12.241
+%global botocore_version        1.12.242
 
 Name:           awscli
-Version:        1.16.251
+Version:        1.16.252
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Universal Command Line Environment for AWS
 
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ rm %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/aws.cmd
 %endif # with python3
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 03 2019 David Duncan davdunc@amazon.com - 1.16.252-1
+- Merge changes from 1.16.252 release.
+
 * Thu Oct 03 2019 David Duncan davdunc@amazon.com - 1.16.251-1
 - Merge changes from 1.16.251 release.
 
diff --git a/relax-dependencies.patch b/relax-dependencies.patch
index 96c0e5f..7301c13 100644
--- a/relax-dependencies.patch
+++ b/relax-dependencies.patch
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-diff -Nur awscli-1.16.251-orig/setup.py awscli-1.16.251/setup.py
---- awscli-1.16.251-orig/setup.py	2019-10-03 15:40:45.414787637 +0000
-+++ awscli-1.16.251/setup.py	2019-10-03 15:40:45.791793718 +0000
+diff -Nur awscli-1.16.252-orig/setup.py awscli-1.16.252/setup.py
+--- awscli-1.16.252-orig/setup.py	2019-10-03 20:13:39.258170217 +0000
++++ awscli-1.16.252/setup.py	2019-10-03 20:13:39.649176352 +0000
 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
  
  
- install_requires = ['botocore==1.12.241',
+ install_requires = ['botocore==1.12.242',
 -                    'colorama>=0.2.5,<=0.3.9',
 +                    'colorama>=0.2.5',
                      'docutils>=0.10,<0.16',
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index d299281..5a34b16 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (awscli-1.16.251.tar.gz) = da221ff500ccb7c4a75b2131e43b2e519a94752dca2547bb81b077019331fa799b87c8aa81a40d057d92ca82260b91ee7b7e6e84220b6363ffb1da2e68454a5b
+SHA512 (awscli-1.16.252.tar.gz) = 390b21415a2fab065893214c02ade4c1aaeda26ccfcbc6a9489add07bd16f6410cddc3f7315076c369aee19023e031e90dab9e55eec4a2c360fa94ce5c247a63