diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e485eff3..d9068e80 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@ You can see the complete list of recent changes, bugfixes and new features
 in the https://github.com/rkd77/felinks.git[gitweb interface]. See the ChangeLog
 file for details.
 
+ELinks 0.17.0
+-------------
+
+Released on 2023-12-25
+
+* fix for some 32-bit systems and select-only builds
+* fix for gettext in Windows builds
+
+
 ELinks 0.17.0rc2
 ----------------
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 96781984..1d7a4062 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([config/m4])
 
 PACKAGE=elinks
-VERSION=0.17.0rc2
+VERSION=0.17.0
 AC_SUBST(PACKAGE)
 AC_SUBST(VERSION)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PACKAGE, "$PACKAGE", [Package version])
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index be8c596c..e0e4d634 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-project('elinks', ['c','cpp'], version:'0.17.0rc2', license:'GPLv2', default_options:['cpp_std=gnu++17'])
+project('elinks', ['c','cpp'], version:'0.17.0', license:'GPLv2', default_options:['cpp_std=gnu++17'])
 srcs=[]
 
 srcdir = meson.source_root()