diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index ce8ec91479a345b2f335a7596c517b3b22104621..405399b3d8aefaa5227684ab32da13ee673e70e5 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
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         "wpackagist-theme/twentyseventeen": "3.1",
-        "wpackagist-theme/twentysixteen": "2.8",
+        "wpackagist-theme/twentysixteen": "2.9",
         "wpackagist-theme/twentyten": "3.7",
         "wpackagist-theme/twentythirteen": "3.6",
         "wpackagist-theme/twentytwelve": "3.8",
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index d22583faf0d93b0a7c774b7a5099712ee450f323..2f459c394254b8ec2177d55995033b5953a6e4ec 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
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     ],
-    "content-hash": "e23dd9b1bba42c185e61f72ffa42768d",
+    "content-hash": "b362fc1492c301bb188ed225b25d9757",
     "packages": [
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             "name": "bjornjohansen/wplang",
@@ -2000,15 +2000,15 @@
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         {
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-            "version": "2.8",
+            "version": "2.9",
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                 "type": "svn",
                 "url": "https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/twentysixteen/",
-                "reference": "2.8"
+                "reference": "2.9"
             },
             "dist": {
                 "type": "zip",
-                "url": "https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/twentysixteen.2.8.zip"
+                "url": "https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/twentysixteen.2.9.zip"
             },
             "require": {
                 "composer/installers": "^1.0 || ^2.0"