diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index caec1f298f..218486e5cb 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ set(OCE_VERSION_MINOR 17)
 # (uncomment following line)
 # set(OCE_VERSION_PATCH 1)
 #  Empty for official releases, set to -dev, -rc1, etc for development releases
-set(OCE_VERSION_DEVEL -rc1)
+set(OCE_VERSION_DEVEL )
 
 # bugfix release: add ${OCE_VERSION_PATCH} to OCE_VERSION
 set(OCE_VERSION ${OCE_VERSION_MAJOR}.${OCE_VERSION_MINOR}${OCE_VERSION_DEVEL})
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2cf8ebd7fb..d5d81cf869 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Version 0.17 - February 2015
+Version 0.17 - March 2015
 
 This version is not binary compatible with OCE 0.16, OCE_ABI_SOVERSION
 was incremented.