diff --git a/scrapy/__init__.py b/scrapy/__init__.py
index bd53fb558..bf2b67499 100644
--- a/scrapy/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/__init__.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Scrapy - a screen scraping framework written in Python
 """
 
-version_info = (0, 16, 4)
+version_info = (0, 16, 5)
 __version__ = "0.16.4"
 
 import sys, os, warnings