diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b7e04e6f9..fbdab788f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Ng-spice-rework-17
+============
+This is a bug fix release. Previous release tarball did not included 
+an include file necessary for compiling numparam library.
+
+
 Ng-spice-rework-16
 ============
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index b59fe8c3b..a84be8c46 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ dnl Initialisation
 dnl ---------------
 
 dnl Initialisation of configure
-AC_INIT(ng-spice-rework,16,ngspice-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net)
+AC_INIT(ng-spice-rework,17,ngspice-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net)
 
 dnl Unique file in the source directory
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/ngspice.c])