diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 995262e71..3e95a0bef 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ LIBHTS_SOVERSION = 3
 # is not strictly necessary and should be removed the next time
 # LIBHTS_SOVERSION is bumped (see #1144 and
 # https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/DynamicLibraries/100-Articles/DynamicLibraryDesignGuidelines.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002013-SW23)
-MACH_O_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION = 3.1.16
-MACH_O_CURRENT_VERSION = 3.1.16
+MACH_O_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION = 3.1.17
+MACH_O_CURRENT_VERSION = 3.1.17
 
 # $(NUMERIC_VERSION) is for items that must have a numeric X.Y.Z string
 # even if this is a dirty or untagged Git working tree.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index adaba256a..d2c168ee7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Noteworthy changes in release a.b
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+Noteworthy changes in release 1.17 (21st February 2023)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
 * A new API for iterating through a BAM record's aux field.
   (PR#1354, addresses #1319.  Thanks to John Marshall)
 
diff --git a/bgzip.1 b/bgzip.1
index 235c72a48..abf9fcedb 100644
--- a/bgzip.1
+++ b/bgzip.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH bgzip 1 "18 August 2022" "htslib-1.16" "Bioinformatics tools"
+.TH bgzip 1 "21 February 2023" "htslib-1.17" "Bioinformatics tools"
 .SH NAME
 .PP
 bgzip \- Block compression/decompression utility
diff --git a/htsfile.1 b/htsfile.1
index cf87bef3d..9e0b0b603 100644
--- a/htsfile.1
+++ b/htsfile.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH htsfile 1 "18 August 2022" "htslib-1.16" "Bioinformatics tools"
+.TH htsfile 1 "21 February 2023" "htslib-1.17" "Bioinformatics tools"
 .SH NAME
 htsfile \- identify high-throughput sequencing data files
 .\"
diff --git a/htslib-s3-plugin.7 b/htslib-s3-plugin.7
index 7a8e51a9e..b37eacac3 100644
--- a/htslib-s3-plugin.7
+++ b/htslib-s3-plugin.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH htslib-s3-plugin 7 "18 August 2022" "htslib-1.16" "Bioinformatics tools"
+.TH htslib-s3-plugin 7 "21 February 2023" "htslib-1.17" "Bioinformatics tools"
 .SH NAME
 s3 plugin \- htslib AWS S3 plugin
 .\"
diff --git a/htslib.map b/htslib.map
index bf25fd5d6..11411a6e3 100644
--- a/htslib.map
+++ b/htslib.map
@@ -608,3 +608,25 @@ HTSLIB_1.16 {
     cram_slice_hdr_get_num_blocks;
     hts_filter_eval2;
 } HTSLIB_1.15;
+
+HTSLIB_1.17 {
+    bam_aux_first;
+    bam_aux_next;
+    bam_aux_remove;
+    bcf_strerror;
+    cram_block_get_method;
+    cram_cid2ds_free;
+    cram_cid2ds_query;
+    cram_codec_describe;
+    cram_codec_get_content_ids;
+    cram_container_get_num_bases;
+    cram_container_get_num_records;
+    cram_decode_compression_header;
+    cram_describe_encodings;
+    cram_expand_method;
+    cram_free_compression_header;
+    cram_update_cid2ds_map;
+    fai_adjust_region;
+    fai_line_length;
+    faidx_seq_len64;
+} HTSLIB_1.16;
diff --git a/htslib/hts.h b/htslib/hts.h
index a3e71ed05..9696bcd2c 100644
--- a/htslib/hts.h
+++ b/htslib/hts.h
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ const char *hts_version(void);
 // Immediately after release, bump ZZ to 90 to distinguish in-development
 // Git repository builds from the release; you may wish to increment this
 // further when significant features are merged.
-#define HTS_VERSION 101690
+#define HTS_VERSION 101790
 
 /*! @abstract Introspection on the features enabled in htslib
  *
diff --git a/tabix.1 b/tabix.1
index cfbe30e28..ce5a47a39 100644
--- a/tabix.1
+++ b/tabix.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH tabix 1 "18 August 2022" "htslib-1.16" "Bioinformatics tools"
+.TH tabix 1 "21 February 2023" "htslib-1.17" "Bioinformatics tools"
 .SH NAME
 .PP
 tabix \- Generic indexer for TAB-delimited genome position files
diff --git a/version.sh b/version.sh
index 89d57fcf6..65d1ccae6 100755
--- a/version.sh
+++ b/version.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 # DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
 # Master version, for use in tarballs or non-git source copies
-VERSION=1.16
+VERSION=1.17
 
 # If we have a git clone, then check against the current tag
 srcdir=${0%/version.sh}