diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index fda11bbf..bbc6f0ec 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,20 @@ Community Crypto Release Notes
 .. contents:: Topics
 
 
+v1.9.16
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Maintenance and bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Include ``simplified_bsd.txt`` license file for the ECS module utils.
+- certificate_complete_chain - do not stop execution if an unsupported signature algorithm is encountered; warn instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto/pull/457).
+
 v1.9.15
 =======
 
diff --git a/changelogs/changelog.yaml b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
index 68bb54ad..8fa70fd8 100644
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -620,6 +620,18 @@ releases:
     - 1.9.15.yml
     - psf-license.yml
     release_date: '2022-05-16'
+  1.9.16:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - Include ``simplified_bsd.txt`` license file for the ECS module utils.
+      - certificate_complete_chain - do not stop execution if an unsupported signature
+        algorithm is encountered; warn instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto/pull/457).
+      release_summary: Maintenance and bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+    - 1.9.16.yml
+    - 457-certificate_complete_chain-unsupported-algorithm.yml
+    - simplified-bsd-license.yml
+    release_date: '2022-06-02'
   1.9.2:
     changes:
       release_summary: Bugfix release to fix the changelog. No other change compared
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1.9.16.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1.9.16.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 441c581c..00000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1.9.16.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: Maintenance and bugfix release.
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/457-certificate_complete_chain-unsupported-algorithm.yml b/changelogs/fragments/457-certificate_complete_chain-unsupported-algorithm.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d729b6d..00000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/457-certificate_complete_chain-unsupported-algorithm.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "certificate_complete_chain - do not stop execution if an unsupported signature algorithm is encountered; warn instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto/pull/457)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/simplified-bsd-license.yml b/changelogs/fragments/simplified-bsd-license.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a5fb067..00000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/simplified-bsd-license.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Include ``simplified_bsd.txt`` license file for the ECS module utils.