diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
index ec14153c..a47555d9 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Requires libvips v8.3.3
 
-#### v0.16.1 - TBD
+#### v0.16.1 - 13<sup>th</sup> October 2016
 
 * C++11 ABI version is now auto-detected, remove sharp-cxx11 installation flag.
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a6277071..32d3463c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "sharp",
-  "version": "0.16.0",
+  "version": "0.16.1",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "contributors": [
     "Pierre Inglebert <pierre.inglebert@gmail.com>",
@@ -59,21 +59,21 @@
     "vips"
   ],
   "dependencies": {
-    "bluebird": "^3.4.1",
+    "bluebird": "^3.4.6",
     "color": "^0.11.3",
     "nan": "^2.4.0",
     "semver": "^5.3.0",
-    "request": "^2.74.0",
+    "request": "^2.75.0",
     "tar": "^2.2.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "async": "^2.0.1",
+    "async": "^2.1.0",
     "bufferutil": "^1.2.1",
-    "coveralls": "^2.11.12",
+    "coveralls": "^2.11.14",
     "exif-reader": "^1.0.1",
     "icc": "^0.0.2",
-    "istanbul": "^0.4.4",
-    "mocha": "^3.0.0",
+    "istanbul": "^0.4.5",
+    "mocha": "^3.1.2",
     "mocha-jshint": "^2.3.1",
     "node-cpplint": "^0.4.0",
     "rimraf": "^2.5.4",
diff --git a/test/bench/package.json b/test/bench/package.json
index 250bc763..1b0070ad 100644
--- a/test/bench/package.json
+++ b/test/bench/package.json
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@
     "test": "VIPS_WARNING=0 node perf && node random && node parallel"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "async": "^2.0.1",
+    "async": "^2.1.1",
     "benchmark": "^2.1.1",
     "gm": "^1.23.0",
     "imagemagick": "^0.1.3",
-    "imagemagick-native": "^1.9.2",
+    "imagemagick-native": "^1.9.3",
     "jimp": "^0.2.27",
     "lwip": "^0.0.9",
     "semver": "^5.3.0"
diff --git a/test/bench/perf.js b/test/bench/perf.js
index a94d72da..cd5ca8cb 100644
--- a/test/bench/perf.js
+++ b/test/bench/perf.js
@@ -519,6 +519,36 @@ async.series({
             }
           });
       }
+    }).add('sharp-crop-entropy', {
+      defer: true,
+      fn: function(deferred) {
+        sharp(inputJpgBuffer)
+          .resize(width, height)
+          .crop(sharp.strategy.entropy)
+          .toBuffer(function(err, buffer) {
+            if (err) {
+              throw err;
+            } else {
+              assert.notStrictEqual(null, buffer);
+              deferred.resolve();
+            }
+          });
+      }
+    }).add('sharp-crop-attention', {
+      defer: true,
+      fn: function(deferred) {
+        sharp(inputJpgBuffer)
+          .resize(width, height)
+          .crop(sharp.strategy.attention)
+          .toBuffer(function(err, buffer) {
+            if (err) {
+              throw err;
+            } else {
+              assert.notStrictEqual(null, buffer);
+              deferred.resolve();
+            }
+          });
+      }
     }).on('cycle', function(event) {
       console.log('operations ' + String(event.target));
     }).on('complete', function() {