diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d091d7595a297a05a503f477a96ce476f3d4e792..4d2ad6f9a9cea7992609196e5804cfcdef77ff38 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
 # Change Log:
 
+# 2.17.0 14-Jan-2020
+ - use QVTKOpenGLNativeWidget (requires VTK 8.2.0 and up)
+ - fix display of menubar on macos in dtkVisualizationViewer
+ - stream tracer widget refactoring
+ - major update to decorators:
+  - fix draw/touch usage
+  - uniform coloring is available for all vector decorators
+  - management of color map can be enhanced especially to include opacity
+  - dtkVisualizationDecoratorScalarIsolines -> dtkVisualizationDecoratorIsocontours
+  - dtkVisualizationDecoratorScalarScalarColormap -> dtkVisualizationDecoratorSurfaceColor
+ - add cmake option to build with VTK git (```DTKVISUALIZATION_USE_UPCOMING_VTK```)
+
 # 2.16.1 20-Dec-2019
  - use vtkGlyph3DMapper in glyph decorators
 
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8f2452538896efd06a65d15e5bbf74beede9c9d1..a2916b1551f8eecc42b4a3456d7c5e138e900a97 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ project(dtkVisualization)
 ## ###################################################################
 
 set(${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_MAJOR 2)
-set(${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_MINOR 16)
-set(${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_PATCH 1)
+set(${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_MINOR 17)
+set(${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_PATCH 0)
 set(${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION
   ${${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_MAJOR}.${${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_MINOR}.${${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_PATCH})