diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index f56af092f..1bf293b8f 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 pyDAL changelog
 ===============
 
+Version 17.08
+-------------
+
+Released on August 29th 2017
+
+- Various bugfixes
+
+
 Version 17.07
 -------------
 
diff --git a/pydal/__init__.py b/pydal/__init__.py
index 25dd4cd8d..8417e6193 100644
--- a/pydal/__init__.py
+++ b/pydal/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = '17.08-dev'
+__version__ = '17.08'
 
 from .base import DAL
 from .objects import Field