diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0ccbb87..4c1bda8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -51,3 +51,4 @@
 /criu-3.15.tar.bz2
 /criu-3.16.tar.bz2
 /criu-3.16.tar.gz
+/criu-3.16.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/criu.spec b/criu.spec
index 886e1fd..ba7096b 100644
--- a/criu.spec
+++ b/criu.spec
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 %undefine _annotated_build
 
 Name: criu
-Version: 3.16
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Version: 3.16.1
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: Tool for Checkpoint/Restore in User-space
 License: GPLv2
 URL: http://criu.org/
@@ -204,6 +204,10 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libcriu.a
 %doc %{_mandir}/man1/criu-ns.1*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 14 2021 Radostin Stoyanov <radostin@redhat.com> - 3.16.1-1
+- Update to 3.16.1
+- Add protobuf-c as required dependency (#2013775)
+
 * Tue Oct 05 2021 Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de> - 3.16-3
 - Fix build on RHEL 8
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 45dfa90..fdcc0ac 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (criu-3.16.tar.gz) = 3f057332ff7e2199b93b678ae3aba4dfd5cbaba87db333b9b4080651d4b375d708a528ef2f58e8a2c6c4a5267fc24ae722f3636ee4bfb73d6fef22ef2bcabdd1
+SHA512 (criu-3.16.1.tar.gz) = a558af41f1927a1b1d87f8d11163a5f3d2e4f83a74aba00619b45a6d464d5477a6a0aac3c1b9d9a17e3343a4bf21a3fd6b279b51fa0c347c86c307381a4d0739