diff --git a/grpc.changes b/grpc.changes
index da7b0ee..fe60d8c 100644
--- a/grpc.changes
+++ b/grpc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Nov 11 17:57:35 UTC 2018 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Update to new upstream release 1.16
+  * Keepalive watchdog firing should return status UNAVAILABLE.
+  * Set TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option for Linux.
+  * Turn loading system root certificate as default.
+  * Change pick_first to not unref unselected subchannels.
+  * cmake: prevent C core from depending on libstdc++.
+  * Implement Watch method in health check service.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Nov 11 10:57:12 UTC 2018 - Thomas Bechtold <tbechtold@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/grpc.spec b/grpc.spec
index ba4d5be..d1397ff 100644
--- a/grpc.spec
+++ b/grpc.spec
@@ -19,13 +19,14 @@
 %define lname libgrpc6
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           grpc
-Version:        1.15.1
+Version:        1.16
 Release:        0
+%define rver	1.16.0
 Summary:        HTTP/2-based Remote Procedure Call implementation
 License:        Apache-2.0
 Group:          Development/Tools/Building
 Url:            http://grpc.io/
-Source:         https://github.com/grpc/grpc/archive/v%version.tar.gz
+Source:         https://github.com/grpc/grpc/archive/v%rver.tar.gz
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module Cython}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
@@ -65,8 +66,8 @@ applications that want to make use of the gRPC reference implementation.
 %package -n python2-grpcio
 Summary:        Python language bindings for grpc, a HTTP/2 Remote Procedure Call implementation
 Group:          Development/Libraries/Python
-Requires:       %{lname} = %{version}-%{release}
-Requires:       python = %{python2_version}
+Requires:       %lname = %version-%release
+Requires:       python = %python2_version
 
 %description -n python2-grpcio
 This subpackage contains the python2 bindings.
@@ -74,14 +75,14 @@ This subpackage contains the python2 bindings.
 %package -n python3-grpcio
 Summary:        Python language bindings for grpc, a HTTP/2 Remote Procedure Call implementation
 Group:          Development/Libraries/Python
-Requires:       %{lname} = %{version}-%{release}
-Requires:       python = %{python3_version}
+Requires:       %lname = %version-%release
+Requires:       python = %python3_version
 
 %description -n python3-grpcio
 This subpackage contains the python3 bindings.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q
+%setup -qn grpc-%rver
 
 %build
 make %{?_smp_mflags} STRIP=/bin/true V=1 VERBOSE=1 \
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_WITH_CYTHON=True
 export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_OPENSSL=True
 export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_ZLIB=True
 export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_CARES=True
-export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
+export CFLAGS="%optflags"
 %python_build
 
 %install
@@ -127,11 +128,11 @@ popd
 %_libdir/*.so
 
 %files -n python2-grpcio
-%{python2_sitearch}/grpcio-%{version}-py*.egg-info
-%{python2_sitearch}/grpc
+%python2_sitearch/grpcio-%rver-py*.egg-info
+%python2_sitearch/grpc
 
 %files -n python3-grpcio
-%{python3_sitearch}/grpcio-%{version}-py*.egg-info
-%{python3_sitearch}/grpc
+%python3_sitearch/grpcio-%rver-py*.egg-info
+%python3_sitearch/grpc
 
 %changelog
diff --git a/v1.15.1.tar.gz b/v1.15.1.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index a17a858..0000000
--- a/v1.15.1.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:0186e800fbda420305c3489ddb28394059e1e6fc192a97fc7412d21b7306d82e
-size 14084914
diff --git a/v1.16.0.tar.gz b/v1.16.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54f27ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v1.16.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:d99db0b39b490d2469a8ef74197d5f211fa740fc9581dccecbb76c56d080fce1
+size 14442543