diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2a034e43a8b..5b748fece56 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
   <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
   <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-  <version>10.16.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>10.16.0</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <name>checkstyle</name>