diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 3985c00bb..66d03891b 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Hugo Lopes Tavares
 Igor Sobreira
 Jared McGuire
 Jonas Baumann
+Joshua Fehler
 Juha Mustonen
 Lorin Hochstein
 Lucas R. Martins
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 04a373efe..c5523bd09 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.16.0
+0.17.0
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index dc388316a..c0324325c 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = "0.16.0"
+version = "0.17.0"
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = "0.16.0"
+release = "0.17.0"
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/docs/news/0.17.0.rst b/docs/news/0.17.0.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c2fa4d1df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/news/0.17.0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+.. Copyright 2021 splinter authors. All rights reserved.
+   Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+   license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+.. meta::
+    :description: New splinter features on version 0.17.0.
+    :keywords: splinter 0.17.0, news
+
+What's New in Splinter 0.17.0?
+==============================
+
+* Added parameter to DriverAPI.screenshot and ElementAPI.screenshot to indicate if unique filename should be ensured (https://github.com/cobrateam/splinter/pull/949)
+* Added Selenium 4 support
+
+Backward incompatible changes
+-----------------------------
+
+* Removed python 2.7 support (https://github.com/cobrateam/splinter/pull/952)
+* Selenium 3 is no longer installed by default. To install Selenium 3, use the `selenium3` extra argument
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    python -m pip install splinter[selenium3]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 19912eb36..1c7380729 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="splinter",
-    version="0.16.0",
+    version="0.17.0",
     url="https://github.com/cobrateam/splinter",
     description="browser abstraction for web acceptance testing",
     long_description=README,