diff --git a/Changelog.txt b/Changelog.txt
index 6222c210a2..1fc83098d8 100644
--- a/Changelog.txt
+++ b/Changelog.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,62 @@
 # - title by author
 # }}}
 
+{{{ 7.17.0 2024-08-23
+
+:: new features
+
+- [major] E-book viewer: Support for jumping to and displaying paper edition page numbers
+
+  If an e-book contains embedded information about the pages from the paper edition of the book,
+  the calibre E-book viewer can now jump to a page number via the Go to button in the viewer controls.
+  You can also optionally have the current paper edition page number displayed in the header/footer
+  by adding "Pages from paper edition" to either the header or footer in the viewer settings.
+
+- [2076251] Edit book: When text is selected allow changing the indentation of all lines in the selection by pressing Tab to increase one level or Shift+Tab to decrease one level
+
+- Allow a plugboard to change the series_index as well as the series name.
+
+- News download: News recipes can now optionally use browser engines based on either Qt or Chromium network stacks instead of mechanize
+
+- Email delivery: When sending emails to Kindles do not convert filenames to English letters as Amazon appears to have finally fixed their email servers to handle non-English filenames
+
+- [2075565] Quickview: Add a tooltip displaying the full cell contents
+
+:: bug fixes
+
+- Update the version of the Qt toolkit bundled with calibre to the latest available, fixing some crashes on macOS related to accessibility tools
+
+- [2075970] Edit book: Fix searching marking incorrect text in the presence of non-BMP unicode characters
+
+- [2074002] Conversion: Do not embed a second copy of a font when using the option to embed font family if the font is already embedded in the book
+
+- [2076515] calibredb list: Fix a regression in the previous release that required setting --template-header to empty to use the list command
+
+- Tolino driver: Fix books from the Tolino cloud not being listed
+
+- Windows: Book details panel: Fix selection not visible when using the system default theme
+
+- [2073441] Hide the Virtual library tab bar in device view as it is non-functional
+
+:: improved recipes
+- Jot Down
+- Various Russian and Ukranian news sources
+- Nautilus Magazine
+- Süddeutsche Zeitung
+- The India Forum
+- WSJ
+- National Geographic
+- Washington Post
+- Mediapart
+- Bloomberg
+- Nautilus
+
+:: new recipes
+- GaGadget by bugmen00t
+- Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin by unkn0wn
+- Science Journal by unkn0wn
+}}}
+
 {{{ 7.16.0 2024-07-31
 
 :: new features
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 3bc1dbd24d..cecfd24cc1 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from functools import lru_cache
 from polyglot.builtins import environ_item, hasenv
 
 __appname__   = 'calibre'
-numeric_version = (7, 16, 100)
+numeric_version = (7, 17, 0)
 __version__   = '.'.join(map(str, numeric_version))
 git_version   = None
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"