diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0f88ec0..1161a2f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="pdf2image",
-    version="1.16.3",
+    version="1.17.0",
     description="A wrapper around the pdftoppm and pdftocairo command line tools to convert PDF to a PIL Image list.",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",