diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3566aceb2..029425163 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Versioned according to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## [2.17.1] - 2020-10-05
+
 Fixed:
 
   * `ocrd workspace remove-group`: don't fail on non-existing files, #618
@@ -1161,6 +1163,7 @@ Fixed
 Initial Release
 
 <!-- link-labels -->
+[2.17.1]: ../../compare/v2.17.1..v2.17.0
 [2.17.0]: ../../compare/v2.17.0..v2.16.3
 [2.16.3]: ../../compare/v2.16.3..v2.16.2
 [2.16.2]: ../../compare/v2.16.2..v2.16.1
diff --git a/ocrd_utils/setup.py b/ocrd_utils/setup.py
index 937ff3f77..3628fd41b 100644
--- a/ocrd_utils/setup.py
+++ b/ocrd_utils/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='ocrd_utils',
-    version='2.17.0',
+    version='2.17.1',
     description='OCR-D framework - shared code, helpers, constants',
     long_description=open('README.md').read(),
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',