diff --git a/NOTICE.txt b/NOTICE.txt
index 23cae9e2063..c99b9581931 100644
--- a/NOTICE.txt
+++ b/NOTICE.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Elasticsearch
-Copyright 2009-2015 Elasticsearch
+Copyright 2009-2016 Elasticsearch
 
 This product includes software developed by The Apache Software
 Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
diff --git a/README.textile b/README.textile
index 1f532f7359d..5c75844b108 100644
--- a/README.textile
+++ b/README.textile
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ h1. License
 <pre>
 This software is licensed under the Apache License, version 2 ("ALv2"), quoted below.
 
-Copyright 2009-2015 Elasticsearch <https://www.elastic.co>
+Copyright 2009-2016 Elasticsearch <https://www.elastic.co>
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
 use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
diff --git a/core/README.textile b/core/README.textile
index 720f357406b..daaf5ecb70e 100644
--- a/core/README.textile
+++ b/core/README.textile
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ h1. License
 <pre>
 This software is licensed under the Apache License, version 2 ("ALv2"), quoted below.
 
-Copyright 2009-2015 Elasticsearch <https://www.elastic.co>
+Copyright 2009-2016 Elasticsearch <https://www.elastic.co>
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
 use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
diff --git a/distribution/deb/src/main/packaging/copyright b/distribution/deb/src/main/packaging/copyright
index d93b550af95..1e647bbac54 100644
--- a/distribution/deb/src/main/packaging/copyright
+++ b/distribution/deb/src/main/packaging/copyright
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright 2013-2015 Elasticsearch <info@elastic.co>
+Copyright 2013-2016 Elasticsearch <info@elastic.co>
 
 License: Apache-2.0
  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
diff --git a/distribution/src/main/resources/NOTICE.txt b/distribution/src/main/resources/NOTICE.txt
index 23cae9e2063..c99b9581931 100644
--- a/distribution/src/main/resources/NOTICE.txt
+++ b/distribution/src/main/resources/NOTICE.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Elasticsearch
-Copyright 2009-2015 Elasticsearch
+Copyright 2009-2016 Elasticsearch
 
 This product includes software developed by The Apache Software
 Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
diff --git a/distribution/src/main/resources/README.textile b/distribution/src/main/resources/README.textile
index b2873e8b56e..c19041cec22 100644
--- a/distribution/src/main/resources/README.textile
+++ b/distribution/src/main/resources/README.textile
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ h1. License
 <pre>
 This software is licensed under the Apache License, version 2 ("ALv2"), quoted below.
 
-Copyright 2009-2015 Elasticsearch <https://www.elastic.co>
+Copyright 2009-2016 Elasticsearch <https://www.elastic.co>
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
 use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
diff --git a/docs/perl/index.asciidoc b/docs/perl/index.asciidoc
index 0e3e9002eb1..734447d0dd1 100644
--- a/docs/perl/index.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/perl/index.asciidoc
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-perl/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.asciidoc[
 
 == Copyright and License
 
-This software is Copyright (c) 2013-2015 by Elasticsearch BV.
+This software is Copyright (c) 2013-2016 by Elasticsearch BV.
 
 This is free software, licensed under:
 https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-perl/blob/master/LICENSE.txt[The Apache License Version 2.0].
diff --git a/docs/python/index.asciidoc b/docs/python/index.asciidoc
index 64756adc444..2ec7579ef12 100644
--- a/docs/python/index.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/python/index.asciidoc
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Simple use-case:
 {u'any': u'data', u'timestamp': u'2013-05-12T19:45:31.804229'}
 ------------------------------------
 
-[NOTE] 
+[NOTE]
 All the API calls map the raw REST api as closely as possible, including
 the distinction between required and optional arguments to the calls. This
 means that the code makes distinction between positional and keyword arguments;
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ some of the more engaging tasks like bulk indexing and reindexing.
 
 === License
 
-Copyright 2013-2015 Elasticsearch
+Copyright 2013-2016 Elasticsearch
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
diff --git a/docs/ruby/copyright.asciidoc b/docs/ruby/copyright.asciidoc
index dbfae04b481..cf5c19c9fee 100644
--- a/docs/ruby/copyright.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/ruby/copyright.asciidoc
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 == Copyright and License
 
-This software is Copyright (c) 2013-2015 by Elasticsearch BV.
+This software is Copyright (c) 2013-2016 by Elasticsearch BV.
 
 This is free software, licensed under The Apache License Version 2.0.