diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index 60e211b55b..cd07f00569 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,43 @@
 #   new recipes:
 #     - title:
 
+- version: 3.17.0
+  date: 2018-02-09
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Allow splitting the book list, by right clicking on the column headers and choosing 'Split the book list'"
+      type: major
+      description: "This is useful to 'lock' one or more columns in place so that they are always visible even when scrolling through other columns. Also, the split list has a separate right click menu which you can configure via Preferences->Toolbars and menus"
+
+    - title: "Store temporary files used by the editor and viewer in the cache directory to try to prevent errors caused by 'file cleaner' programs deleting temporary files still in use"
+
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "EPUB3 Input: Fix HTML covers and titlepages that are marked using the deprecated <guide> element not being recognized."
+      tickets: [1746794]
+
+    - title: "Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression in 3.13 that made it impossible to use the Force numbering checkbox for custom series"
+
+    - title: "Conversion: Fix the valign attribute on <td> tags not being honored"
+
+    - title: "E-book viewer: Fix the 'Copy' keyboard shortcut/context menu action not working on some Windows systems"
+      tickets: [1477696]
+
+    - title: "E-book viewer: Make the semi-transparent background for viewing metadata a little more opaque."
+      tickets: [1745812]
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - New York Times
+    - Le Devoir
+    - New Statesman
+    - London Review of Books
+    - New York Post
+    - LWN Weekly
+    - Associated Press
+
+  new recipes:
+    - title: Computing
+      author: Darko Miletic
+
 - version: 3.16.0
   date: 2018-01-26
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index eb41b5dff0..9fe2fc4821 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from future_builtins import map
 import sys, locale, codecs, os, importlib, collections
 
 __appname__   = u'calibre'
-numeric_version = (3, 16, 0)
+numeric_version = (3, 17, 0)
 __version__   = u'.'.join(map(unicode, numeric_version))
 __author__    = u"Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"