diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 113bce2d6cd057dc42eb813bef31b2bcbbc442c2..3f22bf2d352e1d261f79a0017c599b685fd243fb 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 d91536cc15d5b48dae12bab05a14d50879fd0504..4bfe4279f99ef0631b2e8fb26118542b4501e7f4 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "f528d12a3c886decee1d6753016f5396",
+    "content-hash": "a1822af6a1c5b9249649679bb736be14",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "bjornjohansen/wplang",
@@ -1982,15 +1982,15 @@
         },
         {
             "name": "wpackagist-theme/twentysixteen",
-            "version": "2.8",
+            "version": "2.9",
             "source": {
                 "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"
@@ -2117,5 +2117,5 @@
         "php": ">=7.1"
     },
     "platform-dev": [],
-    "plugin-api-version": "2.2.0"
+    "plugin-api-version": "2.3.0"
 }