diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 00f1746b..48e0a852 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Changelog for six
 
 This file lists the changes in each six version.
 
-Unreleased
-----------
+1.17.0
+------
 
 - Pull request #388: Remove `URLopener` and `FancyURLopener` classes from
   `urllib.request` when running on Python 3.14 or greater.
diff --git a/six.py b/six.py
index d92b1b10..3de5969b 100644
--- a/six.py
+++ b/six.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 import types
 
 __author__ = "Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>"
-__version__ = "1.16.0"
+__version__ = "1.17.0"
 
 
 # Useful for very coarse version differentiation.