diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8bef0b858..97e333c81 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Have your cache setup in any way you like. Redis, PGSQL or any cache layer you w
 Here is a minimal example to get started with:
 
 ```typescript
-import { createBot, startBot } from "https://deno.land/x/discordeno@13.0.0-rc15/mod.ts";
+import { createBot, startBot } from "https://deno.land/x/discordeno@13.0.0-rc16/mod.ts";
 import { enableCachePlugin, enableCacheSweepers } from "https://deno.land/x/discordeno_cache_plugin@0.0.18/mod.ts";
 
 const baseBot = createBot({
diff --git a/src/util/constants.ts b/src/util/constants.ts
index 64a3e2647..f969cc835 100644
--- a/src/util/constants.ts
+++ b/src/util/constants.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ export const GATEWAY_VERSION = 9;
 
 // TODO: update this version
 /** https://github.com/discordeno/discordeno/releases */
-export const DISCORDENO_VERSION = "13.0.0-rc15";
+export const DISCORDENO_VERSION = "13.0.0-rc16";
 
 /** https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference#user-agent */
 export const USER_AGENT = `DiscordBot (https://github.com/discordeno/discordeno, v${DISCORDENO_VERSION})`;