diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4024abc8c..887a7fe4b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,23 @@
 # Changelog 
 
+## 1.0.0-beta.17
+
+- #1044 implement avatar recoding to 192x192 in core to keep file sizes small. 
+
+- #1024 fix #1021 SQL/injection malformed Chat-Group-Name breakage
+
+- #1036 fix smtp crash by pulling in a fixed async-smtp 
+
+- #1039 fix read-receipts appearing as normal messages when you change
+  MDN settings 
+
+- #1040 do not panic on SystemTimeDifference
+
+- #1043 avoid potential crashes in malformed From/Chat-Disposition... headers  
+
+- #1045 #1041 #1038 #1035 #1034 #1029 #1025 various cleanups and doc
+  improvments 
+
 ## 1.0.0-beta.16
 
 - alleviate login problems with providers which only
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8d96c414b..19a544411 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.0.0-beta.16"
+version = "1.0.0-beta.17"
 dependencies = [
  "async-imap 0.1.1 (git+https://github.com/async-email/async-imap?rev=d7836416766b55d8d03587ea5326eecf501c2030)",
  "async-native-tls 0.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -734,9 +734,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.0.0-beta.16"
+version = "1.0.0-beta.17"
 dependencies = [
- "deltachat 1.0.0-beta.16",
+ "deltachat 1.0.0-beta.17",
  "deltachat-provider-database 0.2.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "failure 0.1.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "human-panic 1.0.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 14d801760..0e60a4849 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.0.0-beta.16"
+version = "1.0.0-beta.17"
 authors = ["Delta Chat Developers (ML) <delta@codespeak.net>"]
 edition = "2018"
 license = "MPL"
diff --git a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
index fd028d952..08a9524c1 100644
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.0.0-beta.16"
+version = "1.0.0-beta.17"
 description = "Deltachat FFI"
 authors = ["Delta Chat Developers (ML) <delta@codespeak.net>"]
 edition = "2018"
diff --git a/set_core_version.py b/set_core_version.py
index 8b2661265..785b31561 100644
--- a/set_core_version.py
+++ b/set_core_version.py
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     replace_toml_version("Cargo.toml", newversion)
     replace_toml_version("deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml", newversion)
 
+    subprocess.call(["cargo", "check"])
     subprocess.call(["git", "add", "-u"])
     # subprocess.call(["cargo", "update", "-p", "deltachat"])