diff --git a/SOURCES/openvswitch-2.16.0.patch b/SOURCES/openvswitch-2.16.0.patch
index c96bcfb..0fc276b 100644
--- a/SOURCES/openvswitch-2.16.0.patch
+++ b/SOURCES/openvswitch-2.16.0.patch
@@ -8046,7 +8046,7 @@ index a69e37e5c2..48c6df511f 100644
  /* On disk data serialization and deserialization. */
  
 diff --git a/ovsdb/raft.c b/ovsdb/raft.c
-index 2fb5156519..b70fbed5d4 100644
+index 2fb5156519..863a628eae 100644
 --- a/ovsdb/raft.c
 +++ b/ovsdb/raft.c
 @@ -74,9 +74,12 @@ enum raft_failure_test {
@@ -8488,7 +8488,13 @@ index 2fb5156519..b70fbed5d4 100644
      struct raft_header h = {
          .sid = raft->sid,
          .cid = raft->cid,
-@@ -3998,12 +4041,13 @@ raft_write_snapshot(struct raft *raft, struct ovsdb_log *log,
+@@ -3993,17 +4036,18 @@ raft_write_snapshot(struct raft *raft, struct ovsdb_log *log,
+     if (error) {
+         return error;
+     }
+-    ovsdb_log_mark_base(raft->log);
++    ovsdb_log_mark_base(log);
+ 
      /* Write log records. */
      for (uint64_t index = new_log_start; index < raft->log_end; index++) {
          const struct raft_entry *e = &raft->entries[index - raft->log_start];
diff --git a/SPECS/openvswitch2.16.spec b/SPECS/openvswitch2.16.spec
index 1caa38a..fd2bf0a 100644
--- a/SPECS/openvswitch2.16.spec
+++ b/SPECS/openvswitch2.16.spec
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Summary: Open vSwitch
 Group: System Environment/Daemons daemon/database/utilities
 URL: http://www.openvswitch.org/
 Version: 2.16.0
-Release: 96%{?dist}
+Release: 97%{?dist}
 
 # Nearly all of openvswitch is ASL 2.0.  The bugtool is LGPLv2+, and the
 # lib/sflow*.[ch] files are SISSL
@@ -699,6 +699,12 @@ exit 0
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Aug 31 2022 Open vSwitch CI <ovs-ci@redhat.com> - 2.16.0-97
+- Merging upstream branch-2.16 [RH git: e6de3f5eee]
+    Commit list:
+    975bd48a00 raft: Fix unnecessary periodic compactions.
+
+
 * Mon Aug 15 2022 Open vSwitch CI <ovs-ci@redhat.com> - 2.16.0-96
 - Merging upstream branch-2.16 [RH git: ddb62f8750]
     Commit list: