diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ff152136..779e0cf5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## 0.5.0-alpha.17 / 01 Dec 2023
+This is an alpha release, but new servers should use this version rather than an older "stable" one.
+
+Features:
+ * Duplicate emote names in the emote integrations are now distinguished by adding `~1`, `~2`, etc. suffixes. (#597)
+
+Bugfixes:
+ * Fix startup, authentication, and `/api/now` crashes if Redis or user cookies contain bad data. (#596, c9ed5f1, 693520b)
+
+Internal:
+ * Use ES modules. (#558)
+ * **Breaking:** üWave now requires Node.js 18.18 or above.
+
 ## 0.5.0-alpha.16 / 08 Mar 2023
 This is an alpha release, but new servers should use this version rather than an older "stable" one.
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d8086f26..5bc6ba2c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "u-wave-core",
-  "version": "0.5.0-alpha.16",
+  "version": "0.5.0-alpha.17",
   "description": "The üWave core library.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "repository": "u-wave/core",