diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 7578645..53c947a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,21 @@
 ChangeLog :
 ===========
 
+2012/12/28 : 1.5-dev17
+    - MINOR: ssl: Setting global tune.ssl.cachesize value to 0 disables SSL session cache.
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: stats: fix stats page regression introduced by commit 20b0de5
+    - BUG/MINOR: stats: last fix was still wrong
+    - BUG/MINOR: stats: http-request rules still don't cope with stats
+    - BUG/MINOR: http: http-request add-header emits a corrupted header
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: stats: disable request analyser when processing POST or HEAD
+    - BUG/MINOR: log: make log-format, unique-id-format and add-header more independant
+    - BUILD: log: unused variable svid
+    - CLEANUP: http: rename the misleading http_check_access_rule
+    - MINOR: http: move redirect rule processing to its own function
+    - REORG: config: move the http redirect rule parser to proto_http.c
+    - MEDIUM: http: add support for "http-request redirect" rules
+    - MEDIUM: http: add support for "http-request tarpit" rule
+
 2012/12/24 : 1.5-dev16
     - BUG/MEDIUM: ssl: Prevent ssl error from affecting other connections.
     - BUG/MINOR: ssl: error is not reported if it occurs simultaneously with peer close detection.
diff --git a/README b/README
index b44c2e0..3f7dce2 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
                          ----------------------
                              HAProxy how-to
                          ----------------------
-                            version 1.5-dev16
+                            version 1.5-dev17
                              willy tarreau
-                               2012/12/24
+                               2012/12/28
 
 
 1) How to build it
diff --git a/VERDATE b/VERDATE
index 06175bd..2866453 100644
--- a/VERDATE
+++ b/VERDATE
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2012/12/24
+2012/12/28
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a3bf801..def5875 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.5-dev16
+1.5-dev17
diff --git a/doc/configuration.txt b/doc/configuration.txt
index fb16c7f..c594db8 100644
--- a/doc/configuration.txt
+++ b/doc/configuration.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
                          ----------------------
                              version 1.5
                              willy tarreau
-                              2012/12/24
+                              2012/12/28
 
 
 This document covers the configuration language as implemented in the version
diff --git a/examples/haproxy.spec b/examples/haproxy.spec
index 2cf508e..4955d0a 100644
--- a/examples/haproxy.spec
+++ b/examples/haproxy.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Summary: HA-Proxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy for high availability environments
 Name: haproxy
-Version: 1.5-dev16
+Version: 1.5-dev17
 Release: 1
 License: GPL
 Group: System Environment/Daemons
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@
 %attr(0755,root,root) %config %{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d/%{name}
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Dec 28 2012 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
+- updated to 1.5-dev17
+
 * Mon Dec 24 2012 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
 - updated to 1.5-dev16