diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5979f62..09f48ba 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@
 /libmateweather-1.15.1.tar.xz
 /libmateweather-1.16.0.tar.xz
 /libmateweather-1.16.1.tar.xz
+/libmateweather-1.17.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/libmateweather.spec b/libmateweather.spec
index d10a75f..79f0a08 100644
--- a/libmateweather.spec
+++ b/libmateweather.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 %global rel_build 1
 
 # This is needed, because src-url contains branched part of versioning-scheme.
-%global branch 1.16
+%global branch 1.17
 
 # Settings used for build from snapshots.
 %{!?rel_build:%global commit 06e062693b16189373584801b056079eafac0034}
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 %{!?rel_build:%global git_tar %{name}-%{version}-%{git_ver}.tar.xz}
 
 Name:          libmateweather
-Version:       %{branch}.1
+Version:       %{branch}.0
 %if 0%{?rel_build}
 Release:       1%{?dist}
 %else
@@ -69,9 +69,7 @@ NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
 %build
 %configure --disable-static           \
            --disable-schemas-compile  \
-           --with-gtk=3.0             \
-           --enable-gtk-doc-html      \
-           --enable-python
+           --enable-gtk-doc-html
 
 # fix unused-direct-shlib-dependency
 sed -i -e 's/ -shared / -Wl,-O1,--as-needed\0 /g' libtool 
@@ -115,7 +113,6 @@ fi
 %doc AUTHORS COPYING README
 %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas/org.mate.weather.gschema.xml
 %{_libdir}/libmateweather.so.1*
-%{python2_sitearch}/mateweather/
 
 %files data -f %{name}.lang
 %{_datadir}/icons/mate/*/status/*
@@ -129,6 +126,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Dec 25 2016 Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me@raveit.de> - 1.17.0-1
+- update to 1.17.0 release
+
 * Tue Nov 15 2016 Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me@raveit.de> - 1.16.1-1
 - update to 1.16.1 release
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 3f1d5b7..e48a8ef 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6ec50c34dbfb49695421a291ca932d18  libmateweather-1.16.1.tar.xz
+SHA512 (libmateweather-1.17.0.tar.xz) = 742df62562ba441cd298f25ae351a838b5c2c8923e13fbee56422286640101ae5dd66f6a27a07fb427c30aae49bde39f9a1a1f79b34c18771610ee4cd5ed17cf