diff --git a/docs/about/release-notes.md b/docs/about/release-notes.md
index f94d2f7b..c937140f 100644
--- a/docs/about/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/about/release-notes.md
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ The current and past members of the MkDocs team.
 * [@d0ugal](https://github.com/d0ugal/)
 * [@waylan](https://github.com/waylan/)
 
+## Version 0.17.5 (2018-07-06)
+
+* Bugfix: Fix Python 3.7 and PEP 479 incompatibility (#1518).
+
 ## Version 0.17.4
 
 * Bugfix: Add multi-level nesting support to sitemap.xml (#1482).
diff --git a/mkdocs/__init__.py b/mkdocs/__init__.py
index 326d31c4..ff0eba86 100644
--- a/mkdocs/__init__.py
+++ b/mkdocs/__init__.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 # For acceptable version formats, see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/
-__version__ = '0.17.4'
+__version__ = '0.17.5'