diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 856673f69..ff08f860f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-[v2.17](https://github.com/rigetti/pyquil/compare/v2.16.0...master) (in development)
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+[v2.17](https://github.com/rigetti/pyquil/compare/v2.16.0...master) (January 30, 2020)
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 ### Announcements
 
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 893115c54..a26a7169f 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # specify the dependency versions (can be overriden with --build_arg)
-ARG quilc_version=1.15.1
-ARG qvm_version=1.15.1
+ARG quilc_version=1.16.1
+ARG qvm_version=1.15.3
 ARG python_version=3.6
 
 # use multi-stage builds to independently pull dependency versions
diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 752490696..d76bd2ba3 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.16.0
+2.17.0