diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 2968902a6..e2c42e1da 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 General/project-related changes in the hledger project. 
 For package-specific changes, see the package changelogs.
 
-# 00043408
+# 1.17 2020-03-01
 
 - hledger-install: re-enable installation of hledger-iadd & hledger-interest.
 
diff --git a/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md b/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md
index 1cb2f382b..7aa820ba9 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Internal/api/developer-ish changes in the hledger-lib (and hledger) packages.
 For user-visible changes, see the hledger package changelog.
 
-# 752e8ed4
+# 1.17 2020-03-01
 
 - Reader-finding utilities have moved from Hledger.Read to
   Hledger.Read.JournalReader so the include directive can use them.
diff --git a/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md b/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md
index 905a06821..a69e68128 100644
--- a/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 User-visible changes in hledger-ui.
 See also the hledger changelog.
 
-# 696ec499
+# 1.17 2020-03-01
 
 - don't enable --auto by default
 
diff --git a/hledger-web/CHANGES.md b/hledger-web/CHANGES.md
index ff19b7754..c7ac86a09 100644
--- a/hledger-web/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger-web/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 User-visible changes in hledger-web.
 See also the hledger changelog.
 
-# 4c321cee
+# 1.17 2020-03-01
 
 - Fonts have been improved on certain platforms. (David Zhang)
 
diff --git a/hledger/CHANGES.md b/hledger/CHANGES.md
index 4fdd709ca..635b3c84b 100644
--- a/hledger/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 User-visible changes in the hledger command line tool and library.
 
 
-# 2c8a6e98
+# 1.17 2020-03-01
 
 ## General