diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index a3e42c98a..7c92dcf36 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 This document provides a high-level view of the changes to the {project-name} by release.
 For a detailed view of what has changed, refer to the {uri-repo}/commits/master[commit history] on GitHub.
 
-== Unreleased
+== 1.5.0.alpha.17 (2019-04-23) - @mojavelinux
 
 * drop support for Ruby < 2.3 (and installation will fail for Ruby < 2.1)
 * add asciidoctor/pdf and asciidoctor/pdf/version require aliases (#262)
diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 8fa8ba149..3e4f05bfd 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 = Asciidoctor PDF: A native PDF converter for AsciiDoc
 Dan Allen </~https://github.com/mojavelinux[@mojavelinux]>; Sarah White </~https://github.com/graphitefriction[@graphitefriction]>
+v1.5.0.alpha.17, 2019-04-23
 // Settings:
 :experimental:
 :idprefix:
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ endif::[]
 :project-name: Asciidoctor PDF
 :project-handle: asciidoctor-pdf
 // Variables:
-:release-version: 1.5.0.alpha.16
+:release-version: 1.5.0.alpha.17
 // URIs:
 :uri-asciidoctor: http://asciidoctor.org
 :uri-gem: http://rubygems.org/gems/asciidoctor-pdf
diff --git a/lib/asciidoctor-pdf/version.rb b/lib/asciidoctor-pdf/version.rb
index 6c93e30f8..5c165ffbb 100644
--- a/lib/asciidoctor-pdf/version.rb
+++ b/lib/asciidoctor-pdf/version.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module Asciidoctor
 module PDF
-  VERSION = '1.5.0.alpha.17.dev'
+  VERSION = '1.5.0.alpha.17'
 end
 Pdf = PDF unless const_defined? :Pdf, false
 end