diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index 681edf35e..4f6ce461a 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 ## Next release
 
+## 0.17.0
+
+* Make Flit publish from CI. PR <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/170" target="_blank">#170</a>.
+
 * Add documentation about handling <a href="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/cors/" target="_blank">CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)</a>. PR <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/169" target="_blank">#169</a>.
 
 * By default, encode by alias. This allows using Pydantic `alias` parameters working by default. PR <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/168" target="_blank">#168</a>.
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index fdf119382..e72650d92 100644
--- a/fastapi/__init__.py
+++ b/fastapi/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production"""
 
-__version__ = "0.16.0"
+__version__ = "0.17.0"
 
 from starlette.background import BackgroundTasks