diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 5ff5d6c68364f11cd5c0f1e1da6b3b42f7fa9578..2d77ae66cce82d62f8029b95f31894208c107ca6 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
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         "wpackagist-theme/twentynineteen": "2.4",
         "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 231ff8a91d08dc4aeaff0ebfc46cd5f9a8008430..baf1152acd4b22d74f1f91ff158f2177260d765b 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": "55b6e6a290ab394a9c18560f377e16fd",
+    "content-hash": "7ee172f8dd545ac4ae8131f7a78a63ac",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "bjornjohansen/wplang",
@@ -2000,15 +2000,15 @@
         },
         {
             "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"
@@ -2135,5 +2135,5 @@
         "php": ">=7.1"
     },
     "platform-dev": [],
-    "plugin-api-version": "2.2.0"
+    "plugin-api-version": "2.3.0"
 }