diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3c4b297..4f59a2a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+0.5.17:
+
+This patch release fixes a subtle bug in the newly added support for
+packages that depend on the reordering of linker arguments.
+
 0.5.16:
 
 This patch release fixes a subtle bug in slibtool-shared's
diff --git a/project/tagver.mk b/project/tagver.mk
index 2bed3e1..eef3bd7 100644
--- a/project/tagver.mk
+++ b/project/tagver.mk
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ VER_NAMESPACE	= SLBT
 
 VER_MAJOR	= 0
 VER_MINOR	= 5
-VER_PATCH	= 16
+VER_PATCH	= 17