diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 972525dd3684d7b75c8a61fafce5033a140e3378..e4868f8813bf391d60a3a5c537802c13960b13a4 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 9c1123d70c21c6554f97c7c3195d54380099410d..183d0bf3f1569ee61558fdaa044e1505ea51c6d6 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",
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     ],
-    "content-hash": "3394c37b1e5a207d47e08211c4ac6122",
+    "content-hash": "ca90fc06a9ab6359da00f9aa897181ae",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "bjornjohansen/wplang",
@@ -1982,15 +1982,15 @@
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         {
             "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"