diff --git a/.github/workflows/ansible-integration-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/ansible-integration-tests.yml
index 990354e..8ff37f8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-integration-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-integration-tests.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ jobs:
         # and test against the minimum version of Python supported by both. If/when we change
         # the integration tests to support parallelism we can revisit.
         ansible_version:
+          - stable-2.16
           - stable-2.17
           - stable-2.18
     steps:
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: '3.11'  # this is the minimum version required for Ansible 2.17
+          python-version: '3.10'  # this is the minimum version required for Ansible 2.16
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: pip install -r requirements.txt
       - name: Install ansible-base (${{ matrix.ansible_version }})
@@ -70,4 +71,4 @@ jobs:
       # run tests
       - name: Run integration tests
         # Add the -vvv flag to print out more output
-        run: ansible-test integration -v --color --python 3.11 --venv-system-site-packages
+        run: ansible-test integration -v --color --python 3.10 --venv-system-site-packages
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 99681e3..8cafaf9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ Google.Cloud Release Notes
 
 .. contents:: Topics
 
+v1.5.1
+======
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- run integration test with Ansible 2.16 to match `requires_ansible` version
+
 v1.5.0
 ======
 
diff --git a/changelogs/changelog.yaml b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
index 9ce4438..1d30245 100644
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -121,3 +121,10 @@ releases:
     - remove-google_cloud_ops_agents-role.yml
     - upgrade_anisble.yml
     release_date: '2025-01-14'
+  1.5.1:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - run integration test with Ansible 2.16 to match `requires_ansible` version
+    fragments:
+    - 667-include-2-16-in-ci.yml
+    release_date: '2025-01-30'
diff --git a/galaxy.yml b/galaxy.yml
index f015ca3..024b507 100644
--- a/galaxy.yml
+++ b/galaxy.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ namespace: google
 name: cloud
 
 # The version of the collection. Must be compatible with semantic versioning
-version: 1.5.0
+version: 1.5.1
 
 # The path to the Markdown (.md) readme file. This path is relative to the root of the collection
 readme: README.md