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 # appear in docs before they ship to users.
 # -------------------------------------------------------
 
-motoko                v1.16.0                                                     a2d0b69
+motoko                v1.16.1                                                     01aee06
 internetidentity      release-2026-09-11                                         3cd91d62
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-Subproject commit a2d0b69d23af9b9dbb70aa4cfffc91a59e1afa74
+Subproject commit 01aee0697be8c5afc0cd2dd046198b32a279dd81
diff --git a/docs/languages/motoko/reference/changelog.md b/docs/languages/motoko/reference/changelog.md
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 # Motoko compiler changelog
 
+## 1.16.1 (2026-09-16)
+
+* motoko (`moc`)
+
+  * bugfix: trapping `**` on `Nat8`, `Nat16`, `Nat32`, `Int8`, `Int16` and
+    `Int32` now traps when the result overflows the 64-bit intermediate
+    instead of returning a wrapped value (e.g. `(65536 : Nat32) ** 4` returned
+    `0`) (#6340).
+
+  * bugfix: `Region.loadBlob`/`Region.storeBlob` no longer read one block past
+    the end of a region's block table when a block-aligned range ends exactly
+    at the end of the region (#6373).
+
+  * perf: the incremental GC's write, allocation and weak-reference read barriers now
+    gate on a backend-cached running-GC flag instead of calling into the RTS (#6111).
+
+  * perf: don't GC trace dummy coercion markers for freshly Candid-decoded
+    objects (#6370).
+
 ## 1.16.0 (2026-09-09)
 
 * motoko (`moc`)