diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 195f0a56..97372a72 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+================
+Evince    3.17.4
+================
+
+New features and improvements:
+
+    * The sidebar tab to add new annotations has been removed, and a
+      new annotations toolbar has been added making it easier to
+      discover and more convenient to annotate documents (#649045,
+      Carlos Garcia Campos)
+
+Translation updates:
+
+    * Benjamin Steinwender (de)
+    * Daniel Mustieles (es)
+    * Yosef Or Boczko (he)
+    * Balázs Úr (hu)
+    * Pedro Albuquerque (pt)
+    * Stas Solovey (ru)
+    * Dušan Kazik (sk)
+    * Matej Urbančič (sl)
+    * Victor Ibragimov (tg)
+
 ================
 Evince    3.17.3
 ================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ce98040e..f90f04c3 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 m4_define([ev_major_version],[3])
 m4_define([ev_minor_version],[17])
-m4_define([ev_micro_version],[3])
+m4_define([ev_micro_version],[4])
 m4_define([ev_extra_version],[])
 m4_define([ev_version],[ev_major_version.ev_minor_version.ev_micro_version()ev_extra_version])