diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2b86b5f3..57a3d117 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
+6/3/09 started 7.17.3
+- revised nohalo
+- remove fading stuff from im_render() -- cleaner and simpler
+
 3/3/09 started 7.17.2
 - im_magick2vips.c: allow funky bit depths, like 14 (thanks Mikkel)
 - isradiance was returning TRUE too often
 - radiance loader now loads packed RGBE/XYZE instead of unpacking to float
 - added im_rad2float()
-- remove fading stuff from im_render() -- cleaner and simpler
 
 11/10/08 started 7.17.0
 - merge vips-7.16 brach back into trunk
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index b9c7086d..762adae0 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 # user-visible library versioning
 IM_MAJOR_VERSION=7
 IM_MINOR_VERSION=17
-IM_MICRO_VERSION=2
+IM_MICRO_VERSION=3
 IM_VERSION=$IM_MAJOR_VERSION.$IM_MINOR_VERSION.$IM_MICRO_VERSION
 IM_VERSION_STRING=$IM_VERSION-`date`
 
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ PACKAGE=vips
 #   interface changes backwards compatible?: increment age
 #   interface changes not backwards compatible?: reset age to 0
 
-LIBRARY_CURRENT=24
+LIBRARY_CURRENT=25
 LIBRARY_REVISION=0
-LIBRARY_AGE=9
+LIBRARY_AGE=10
 
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE,$VERSION)