diff --git a/.ceph.metadata b/.ceph.metadata
index 8217975..be6324d 100644
--- a/.ceph.metadata
+++ b/.ceph.metadata
@@ -1 +1 @@
-8f99b1588833c5887495562fc99a088d591e26c1  SOURCES/ceph-16.2.8.tar.gz
+2bc5c98c2b5ca4981ff04ca043f99503b88b9951  SOURCES/ceph-16.2.9.tar.bz2
diff --git a/SPECS/ceph.spec b/SPECS/ceph.spec
index c6bc87d..b59331e 100644
--- a/SPECS/ceph.spec
+++ b/SPECS/ceph.spec
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
 # main package definition
 #################################################################################
 Name:		ceph
-Version:	16.2.8
+Version:	16.2.9
 Release:	1%{?dist}
 %if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel}
 Epoch:		2
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ License:	(LGPLv2.1 or LGPLv3) and CC-BY-SA-3.0 and GPLv2 and Boost-1.0 and BSD a
 Group:		System/Filesystems
 %endif
 URL:		http://ceph.com/
-Source0:	%{?_remote_tarball_prefix}ceph-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0:	%{?_remote_tarball_prefix}ceph-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Patch0001:	0001-src-common-crc32c_intel_fast.patch
 Patch0003:	0003-src-common-bitstr.h.patch
 Patch0007:	0007-src-test-neorados-CMakeLists.txt.patch
@@ -2529,6 +2529,9 @@ exit 0
 %config %{_sysconfdir}/prometheus/ceph/ceph_default_alerts.yml
 
 %changelog
+* Thu May 19 2022 Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle[at]redhat.com> - 2:16.2.9-1
+- 16.2.9 GA
+
 * Mon May 16 2022 Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle[at]redhat.com> - 2:16.2.8-1
 - 16.2.8 GA