diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6d5165db..f8433abf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## [0.17.0] - 2021-08-21
+
 **compare commits**
 
 ![compare](assets/compare.gif)
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index eb770324..b40dd72c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "asyncgit"
-version = "0.16.3"
+version = "0.17.0"
 dependencies = [
  "crossbeam-channel",
  "easy-cast",
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "gitui"
-version = "0.16.2"
+version = "0.17.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "asyncgit",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3dd1f278..de804052 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "gitui"
-version = "0.16.2"
+version = "0.17.0"
 authors = ["Stephan Dilly <dilly.stephan@gmail.com>"]
 description = "blazing fast terminal-ui for git"
 edition = "2018"
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ keywords = [
 
 [dependencies]
 scopetime = { path = "./scopetime", version = "0.1" }
-asyncgit = { path = "./asyncgit", version = "0.16" }
+asyncgit = { path = "./asyncgit", version = "0.17" }
 filetreelist = { path = "./filetreelist", version = "0.2" }
 crossterm = { version = "0.20", features = [ "serde" ] }
 clap = { version = "2.33", default-features = false }
diff --git a/asyncgit/Cargo.toml b/asyncgit/Cargo.toml
index 59f2d2c0..00b0ee59 100644
--- a/asyncgit/Cargo.toml
+++ b/asyncgit/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "asyncgit"
-version = "0.16.3"
+version = "0.17.0"
 authors = ["Stephan Dilly <dilly.stephan@gmail.com>"]
 edition = "2018"
 description = "allow using git2 in a asynchronous context"