diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index b39211f..c629cbc 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+0.5.17 (2019-01-20)
+-------------------
+- Delegated autoescaping to Jinja2 Environment (#175)
+
 0.5.16 (2019-01-11)
 -------------------
 - Force to use python-docx 0.8.7 (#170)
diff --git a/docxtpl/__init__.py b/docxtpl/__init__.py
index 8d1d03f..1d27f54 100644
--- a/docxtpl/__init__.py
+++ b/docxtpl/__init__.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Created : 2015-03-12
 '''
 import functools
 
-__version__ = '0.5.16'
+__version__ = '0.5.17'
 
 from lxml import etree
 from docx import Document