diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 6f2b4018..afe01269 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.16.2"
+  ".": "0.16.3"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b78a6b0a..650770f6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.16.3 (2024-03-04)
+
+Full Changelog: [v0.16.2...v0.16.3](https://github.com/Finch-API/finch-api-python/compare/v0.16.2...v0.16.3)
+
+### Documentation
+
+* update some doc strings ([#309](https://github.com/Finch-API/finch-api-python/issues/309)) ([4997a5a](https://github.com/Finch-API/finch-api-python/commit/4997a5ae4b8c4934cab2f1eb4be939d829544b76))
+
 ## 0.16.2 (2024-03-04)
 
 Full Changelog: [v0.16.1...v0.16.2](https://github.com/Finch-API/finch-api-python/compare/v0.16.1...v0.16.2)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 70c496ed..1bfa5ef3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "finch-api"
-version = "0.16.2"
+version = "0.16.3"
 description = "The official Python library for the Finch API"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/src/finch/_version.py b/src/finch/_version.py
index 827c1504..c08da305 100644
--- a/src/finch/_version.py
+++ b/src/finch/_version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # File generated from our OpenAPI spec by Stainless.
 
 __title__ = "finch"
-__version__ = "0.16.2"  # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = "0.16.3"  # x-release-please-version