diff --git a/fix-package-version.patch b/fix-package-version.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d802fd..0000000
--- a/fix-package-version.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-From c1eb4f3f7bfaf5a54db73ae28f7395e8cbf01752 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Josh Roesslein <jroesslein@gmail.com>
-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:24:21 -0600
-Subject: [PATCH] Bump version number to 4.15.0
-
----
- tweepy/__init__.py | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/tweepy/__init__.py b/tweepy/__init__.py
-index efe98645b..105189c08 100644
---- a/tweepy/__init__.py
-+++ b/tweepy/__init__.py
-@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
- """
- Tweepy Twitter API library
- """
--__version__ = '4.14.0'
-+__version__ = '4.15.0'
- __author__ = 'Joshua Roesslein'
- __license__ = 'MIT'
- 
diff --git a/python-tweepy.changes b/python-tweepy.changes
index 11a866d..f3512d7 100644
--- a/python-tweepy.changes
+++ b/python-tweepy.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jul  2 11:45:55 UTC 2025 - John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com>
+
+- Update to 4.16.0
+  * Re-improve clarity of OAuth 2.0 User Context example code
+  * Fix SyntaxWarning
+  * Install 'build'
+  * Bump version number to 4.15.0
+  * Docs config updates to fix build
+  * Fix Sphinx context injection removal by readthedocs
+  * Revert hoverxref upgrade for now until sphinx can be updated
+  * Fix build error for docs related to 'html_context' setting
+  * Modernize packaging configuration
+  * Add new publish workflow to use trusted publisher
+  * Add dev and test dependencies
+  * Update publish workflow...
+  * Add support for posting tweets to Communities
+  * Update .gitignore
+  * Release 4.16.0
+- Drop fix-package-version.patch, merged upstream
+- Update BuildRequires from pyproject.toml
+- Use Python 3.11 on SLE-15 by default
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jan 28 09:08:40 UTC 2025 - John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-tweepy.spec b/python-tweepy.spec
index 75d9ecd..6112136 100644
--- a/python-tweepy.spec
+++ b/python-tweepy.spec
@@ -16,17 +16,17 @@
 #
 
 
+%{?sle15_python_module_pythons}
 Name:           python-tweepy
-Version:        4.15.0
+Version:        4.16.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Twitter library for python
 License:        MIT
 URL:            https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy
 Source:         https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz
-# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM: Bump version number to 4.15.0
-Patch:          https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/commit/c1eb4f3f7bfaf5a54db73ae28f7395e8cbf01752.patch#/fix-package-version.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module aiohttp}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module async-lru}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module flit-core}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pip}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module requests >= 2.27.0}
diff --git a/v4.15.0.tar.gz b/v4.15.0.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 925c263..0000000
--- a/v4.15.0.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:f09870b501d8a7152cb87d14254172f72fad066c95fb49ef4a9ed0b60489d9ab
-size 5916084
diff --git a/v4.16.0.tar.gz b/v4.16.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2731895
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4.16.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:35b691d6c97024eee8b3c300935b38828cce41444b4c1f86a207947e67147856
+size 5916867