diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 38fc5a230..f89387fd4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+ver 0.15.17 (2011/??/??)
+
+
 ver 0.15.16 (2011/03/13)
 * output:
   - ao: initialize the ao_sample_format struct
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9f212b583..1276f0f89 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ(2.60)
-AC_INIT(mpd, 0.15.16, musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net)
+AC_INIT(mpd, 0.15.17~git, musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.c])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign 1.9 dist-bzip2])
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)