From f877efdd89607a37a4053baab16910c1446b9a8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rapptz <rapptz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 20:52:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Change version info to 1.0.0a0.

---
 discord/__init__.py |  4 ++--
 docs/whats_new.rst  | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/discord/__init__.py b/discord/__init__.py
index 4d04aeb8b..10bbec8c8 100644
--- a/discord/__init__.py
+++ b/discord/__init__.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ __title__ = 'discord'
 __author__ = 'Rapptz'
 __license__ = 'MIT'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2015-2016 Rapptz'
-__version__ = '0.16.0'
+__version__ = '1.0.0a0'
 
 from .client import Client, AppInfo, ChannelPermissions
 from .user import User
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ import logging
 
 VersionInfo = namedtuple('VersionInfo', 'major minor micro releaselevel serial')
 
-version_info = VersionInfo(major=0, minor=16, micro=0, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
+version_info = VersionInfo(major=1, minor=0, micro=0, releaselevel='alpha', serial=0)
 
 try:
     from logging import NullHandler
diff --git a/docs/whats_new.rst b/docs/whats_new.rst
index 35d0d2e31..4832dd295 100644
--- a/docs/whats_new.rst
+++ b/docs/whats_new.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,22 @@ What's New
 This page keeps a detailed human friendly rendering of what's new and changed
 in specific versions.
 
+.. _vp0p16p1:
+
+v0.16.1
+--------
+
+This release is just a bug fix release with some better rate limit implementation.
+
+Bug Fixes
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Servers are now properly chunked for user bots.
+- The CDN URL is now used instead of the API URL for assets.
+- Rate limit implementation now tries to use header information if possible.
+- Event loop is now properly propagated (:issue:`420`)
+- Allow falsey values in :meth:`Client.send_message` and :meth:`Client.send_file`.
+
 .. _vp0p16p0:
 
 v0.16.0