diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9fa894e..8e60d36 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog for the optimized Picnic implementation
 
+## Version 3.0.17 -- 2022-08-05
+
+* Small improvements and fixes.
+
 ## Version 3.0.16 -- 2022-08-01
 
 * Fix alignment of buffers accessed with SIMD instructions when building with MSVC.
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9d38660..e8c817d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
 # project info
 set(PICNIC_MAJOR_VERSION 3)
 set(PICNIC_MINOR_VERSION 0)
-set(PICNIC_PATCH_VERSION 16)
+set(PICNIC_PATCH_VERSION 17)
 set(PICNIC_VERSION ${PICNIC_MAJOR_VERSION}.${PICNIC_MINOR_VERSION}.${PICNIC_PATCH_VERSION})
 
 project(picnic LANGUAGES C CXX VERSION ${PICNIC_VERSION})