diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ebf28ac20..09cf04db5 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: polars
 Title: Lightning-Fast 'DataFrame' Library
-Version: 0.16.1.9000
+Version: 0.16.2.9000
 Depends: R (>= 4.2)
 Imports: utils, codetools, methods
 Authors@R:
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 066196301..c41d18742 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 # NEWS
 
-## polars (development version)
+## Polars R Package (development version)
+
+## Polars R Package 0.16.2
 
 ### New features
 
 - `$cut()` and `$qcut()` to bin continuous values into discrete categories (#1057).
+- `pl$scan_parquet()` and `pl$read_parquet()` can read data from the internet by specifying a URL
+  to the first argument (#1056, @andyquinterom).
 - `pl$scan_parquet()` and `pl$read_parquet()` gain an argument `storage_options`
   to scan/read data via cloud storage providers (GCP, AWS, Azure). Note that this
   support is experimental (#1056, @andyquinterom).
@@ -15,7 +19,7 @@
 - In some read/scan functions, downloading files could fail if the URL was too
   long. This is now fixed (#1049, @DyfanJones).
 
-## polars 0.16.1
+## Polars R Package 0.16.1
 
 This is a small hot-fix release to update dependent Rust polars to 0.39.1 (#1042).
 
diff --git a/tools/lib-sums.tsv b/tools/lib-sums.tsv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7d3ceb982
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/lib-sums.tsv
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+url	sha256sum
+https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars/releases/download/lib-v0.39.2/libr_polars-0.39.2-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	514ec8af46cbc56988a95b8143f63a0f74afba59c3d8844aa9cf83d98b6d2e54
+https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars/releases/download/lib-v0.39.2/libr_polars-0.39.2-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	8b8978339a87c485e93825ef27e4cd3f11c1f2e1f35cdaa0e917b7371f4638fc
+https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars/releases/download/lib-v0.39.2/libr_polars-0.39.2-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	4738714d14e8d8ea6efc7aea46757791ef0a0f6a27662a7b529fd348bcb18395
+https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars/releases/download/lib-v0.39.2/libr_polars-0.39.2-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.tar.gz	72381da18f7a9d65f6e0378ddcb3979af0ae4c465d948569150ec15e06bb7b2c
+https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars/releases/download/lib-v0.39.2/libr_polars-0.39.2-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	fb5ccbf83e4e4f6c2ffcd17ab43e09112567a5e966900f5a21778f2d002587a3