diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cbc7fba..8203d0c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -26,3 +26,4 @@
 /mate-icon-theme-1.14.0.tar.xz
 /mate-icon-theme-1.15.0.tar.xz
 /mate-icon-theme-1.16.0.tar.xz
+/mate-icon-theme-1.17.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/mate-icon-theme.spec b/mate-icon-theme.spec
index fac38dc..f917ccb 100644
--- a/mate-icon-theme.spec
+++ b/mate-icon-theme.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 %global rel_build 1
 
 # This is needed, because src-url contains branched part of versioning-scheme.
-%global branch 1.16
+%global branch 1.17
 
 # Settings used for build from snapshots.
 %{!?rel_build:%global commit cdb0d70862035cd1b65c4deb495ea1016ea2d206}
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Jan 15 2017 Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me@raveit.de> - 1.17.0-1
+- update to 1.17.0 release
+
 * Wed Sep 21 2016 Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me@raveit.de> - 1.16.0-1
 - update to 1.16.0 release
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index fc393f3..8117fb3 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-35c54cbff42fe9a443de284096a435e4  mate-icon-theme-1.16.0.tar.xz
+SHA512 (mate-icon-theme-1.17.0.tar.xz) = 30fbda2010177abc1f8dcc12ac38f752f1cce69369cbe1c8bd9c1d0c72519e3e2cf3098a602560542823b3be16e0a32496d3f197421d8d8e78c2a2e3c7345257