diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 2376928a5..625578fe5 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 = sshj - SSHv2 library for Java
 Jeroen van Erp
 :sshj_groupid: com.hierynomus
-:sshj_version: 0.16.0
+:sshj_version: 0.17.1
 :source-highlighter: pygments
 
 image:https://travis-ci.org/hierynomus/sshj.svg?branch=master[link="https://travis-ci.org/hierynomus/sshj"]
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/sshj-users
 Fork away!
 
 == Release history
+SSHJ 0.17.1 (2016-07-06)::
+* Improved parsing of the SSH Server identification. Too long header lines now no longer break the protocol.
 SSHJ 0.17.0 (2016-07-05)::
 * *Introduced breaking change in SFTP copy behaviour*: Previously an SFTP copy operation would behave differently if both source and target were folders with different names.
   In this case instead of copying the contents of the source into the target directory, the directory itself was copied as a sub directory of the target directory.
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/schmizz/sshj/DefaultConfig.java b/src/main/java/net/schmizz/sshj/DefaultConfig.java
index 8ff940d27..972483ef0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/schmizz/sshj/DefaultConfig.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/schmizz/sshj/DefaultConfig.java
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ public class DefaultConfig
 
     private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());
 
-    private static final String VERSION = "SSHJ_0_16_0";
+    private static final String VERSION = "SSHJ_0_17_1";
 
     public DefaultConfig() {
         setVersion(VERSION);