2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d0d3ec6..3378943 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PACKAGE = net_monitor
-VERSION = 0.16
+VERSION = 0.17
 GITPATH = git://git.mageia.org/software/net_monitor
 
 all: version python
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5d809f3..3648ef2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Mandriva network monitoring tool -- History of user-visible changes
 Copyright (C) 2009, Mandriva
 
+0.17:
+- fix mga#12882 (use of str() instead of unicode())
+
 0.16:
 - fix missing interface name in message
 - fix treating UTF-8 strings as ascii (mga#12047)