diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bbf7b1802..b5a1c4681 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-  <version>3.15.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>3.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>Apache Commons Lang</name>
 
   <inceptionYear>2001</inceptionYear>
@@ -142,8 +142,8 @@
     <commons.packageId>lang3</commons.packageId>
     <commons.module.name>org.apache.commons.lang3</commons.module.name>
     <!-- Current 3.x release series -->
-    <commons.release.version>3.15.0</commons.release.version>
-    <commons.release.next>3.15.1</commons.release.next>
+    <commons.release.version>3.16.0</commons.release.version>
+    <commons.release.next>3.16.1</commons.release.next>
     <commons.release.desc>(Java 8+)</commons.release.desc>
     <!-- Previous 2.x release series -->
     <commons.release.2.version>2.6</commons.release.2.version>
@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@
     <uberjar.name>benchmarks</uberjar.name>
 
     <!-- Commons Release Plugin -->
-    <commons.bc.version>3.14.0</commons.bc.version>
-    <commons.rc.version>RC2</commons.rc.version>
+    <commons.bc.version>3.15.0</commons.bc.version>
+    <commons.rc.version>RC1</commons.rc.version>
     <commons.release.isDistModule>true</commons.release.isDistModule>
     <commons.distSvnStagingUrl>scm:svn:https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/lang</commons.distSvnStagingUrl>
     <!-- JaCoCo: Don't make code coverage worse than: -->