diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
 This document contains details of the various releases and their release dates.
 Dates are in the format `yyyy-mm-dd`.
 
+## 2.17 - 2019-12-02
+
+Elements using the default XML namespace can now be queried using XPath queries,
+which was broken for quite a while.
+
+See commit <https://gitlab.com/yorickpeterse/oga/commit/95da93949bf613612981f5cd7decc0d2c2a60e15>
+for more information.
+
 ## 2.16 - 2019-11-29
 
 * XPath namespace aliases can now be used when querying elements using XPath
diff --git a/checksum/oga-2.17-java.gem.sha512 b/checksum/oga-2.17-java.gem.sha512
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+9cbb14e1abea3ebec3b7e9051bff5cae466cc4e608df6aa7826add38bcdb5b406cc8090405e63128a6902b24a64082ef5b9d1a36970c399ef4c941f63f2ee305
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diff --git a/lib/oga/version.rb b/lib/oga/version.rb
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--- a/lib/oga/version.rb
+++ b/lib/oga/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Oga
-  VERSION = '2.16'
+  VERSION = '2.17'
 end # Oga