diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index cc6841167..c907e815a 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 This file documents the revision history for the Monitoring Webinterface Thruk.
 
-next:
-          - fix using unescaped url in reports
+3.16     Fri Jul 12 16:23:37 CEST 2024
+          - fix using unescaped url in reports (CVE-2024-39915)
           - fix recurring downtimes crontab entry for 2nd/3rd days of month
           - fix sessions removed early when using kerberos authentication
           - fix using custom variables starting with multiple underlines
diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 8bbc9dbb2..bced6728b 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ plugins/plugins-available/business_process/lib/Thruk/Controller/bp.pm
 plugins/plugins-available/business_process/lib/Thruk/Controller/Rest/V1/bp.pm
 plugins/plugins-available/business_process/lib/Thruk/Utils/CLI/Bp.pm
 plugins/plugins-available/business_process/preview.png
-plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/bp-3.14.2.css
-plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/bp-3.14.2.js
+plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/bp-3.16.css
+plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/bp-3.16.js
 plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/images/lock.png
 plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/images/testmode_critical.png
 plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/images/testmode_ok.png
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ plugins/plugins-available/panorama/root/js/panorama_js_tabbar.js
 plugins/plugins-available/panorama/root/js/panorama_js_tabbar_search.js
 plugins/plugins-available/panorama/root/js/panorama_js_track_timers.js
 plugins/plugins-available/panorama/root/js/panorama_js_utils_base64.js
-plugins/plugins-available/panorama/root/panorama-3.14.2.css
+plugins/plugins-available/panorama/root/panorama-3.16.css
 plugins/plugins-available/panorama/routes
 plugins/plugins-available/panorama/scripts/disable_debug.sh
 plugins/plugins-available/panorama/scripts/enable_debug.sh
@@ -658,11 +658,11 @@ README.md
 root/favicon.ico
 root/index.html
 root/robots.txt
-root/thruk/cache/thruk-3.14.2.js
-root/thruk/cache/thruk-panorama-3.14.2.js
+root/thruk/cache/thruk-3.16.js
+root/thruk/cache/thruk-panorama-3.16.js
 root/thruk/images/trendshost.png
 root/thruk/images/trendssvc.png
-root/thruk/javascript/thruk-3.14.2.js
+root/thruk/javascript/thruk-3.16.js
 root/thruk/media/critical.wav
 root/thruk/media/ok.wav
 root/thruk/media/unknown.wav
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index be2eb14fe..b5c870c2e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+thruk (3.16+1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * new upstream release
+
+ -- Thruk Development Team <devel@thruk.org>  Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:23:40 +0200
+
 thruk (3.14.2+1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * new upstream release
diff --git a/dist.ini b/dist.ini
index 1cc06175e..4c4eb1ecc 100644
--- a/dist.ini
+++ b/dist.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 name       = Thruk
-version    = 3.14.2
+version    = 3.16
 author     = Sven Nierlein <sven@consol.de>
 license    = Artistic
diff --git a/docs/manpages/thruk.3 b/docs/manpages/thruk.3
index 8b3b644ac..46f2b8efa 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/thruk.3
+++ b/docs/manpages/thruk.3
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 .\" ========================================================================
 .\"
 .IX Title "thruk 3"
-.TH thruk 3 "2024-03-23" "perl v5.36.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
+.TH thruk 3 "2024-07-12" "perl v5.36.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
 .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
 .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
 .if n .ad l
diff --git a/lib/Thruk/Config.pm b/lib/Thruk/Config.pm
index 58a59f567..10fb2bea7 100644
--- a/lib/Thruk/Config.pm
+++ b/lib/Thruk/Config.pm
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Generic Access to Thruks Config
 
 ######################################
 
-our $VERSION = '3.14.2';
+our $VERSION = '3.16';
 our $GIT_HASH = ""; # set by dailydist make target
 
 our $config;
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ my $project_root = home() || confess('could not determine project_root from inc.
 my $base_defaults = {
     'name'                                  => 'Thruk',
     'fileversion'                           => $VERSION,
-    'released'                              => 'March 23, 2024',
+    'released'                              => 'July 12, 2024',
     'compression_format'                    => 'gzip',
     'ENCODING'                              => 'utf-8',
     'image_path'                            => $project_root.'/root/thruk/images',
diff --git a/plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/bp-3.14.2.css b/plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/bp-3.16.css
similarity index 100%
rename from plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/bp-3.14.2.css
rename to plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/bp-3.16.css
diff --git a/plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/bp-3.14.2.js b/plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/bp-3.16.js
similarity index 100%
rename from plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/bp-3.14.2.js
rename to plugins/plugins-available/business_process/root/bp-3.16.js
diff --git a/plugins/plugins-available/panorama/root/panorama-3.14.2.css b/plugins/plugins-available/panorama/root/panorama-3.16.css
similarity index 100%
rename from plugins/plugins-available/panorama/root/panorama-3.14.2.css
rename to plugins/plugins-available/panorama/root/panorama-3.16.css
diff --git a/root/thruk/javascript/thruk-3.14.2.js b/root/thruk/javascript/thruk-3.16.js
similarity index 100%
rename from root/thruk/javascript/thruk-3.14.2.js
rename to root/thruk/javascript/thruk-3.16.js
diff --git a/support/thruk.spec b/support/thruk.spec
index 3fee46e8f..344a6bf61 100644
--- a/support/thruk.spec
+++ b/support/thruk.spec
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:          thruk
-Version:       3.14.2
-Release:       12970.1
+Version:       3.16
+Release:       13102.1
 License:       GPL-2.0-or-later
 Packager:      Sven Nierlein <sven.nierlein@consol.de>
 Vendor:        Labs Consol