diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3a44ee4..e7e92c9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ python-meh-0.13.tar.gz
 /python-meh-0.14.tar.gz
 /python-meh-0.15.tar.gz
 /python-meh-0.16.tar.gz
+/python-meh-0.17.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-meh.spec b/python-meh.spec
index 4860af1..9ab4fac 100644
--- a/python-meh.spec
+++ b/python-meh.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Summary:  A python library for handling exceptions
 Name: python-meh
 Url: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=python-meh.git
-Version: 0.16
+Version: 0.17
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 # This is a Red Hat maintained package which is specific to
 # our distribution.  Thus the source is only available from
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %{_datadir}/python-meh
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Oct 09 2012 Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime@redhat.com> - 0.17-1
+- Handle unicode strings correctly (#854959) (vpodzime)
+
 * Tue Sep 11 2012 Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime@redhat.com> - 0.16-1
 - Do not overwrite process information with files having the same basename (vpodzime)
 - Encode dump as utf-8 before writing to file (#854959) (vpodzime)
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 62092bf..6189581 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-fb760e4bd0c27b7dd7138a623a0e562a  python-meh-0.16.tar.gz
+a201e443fdde2741a86c8271a527f111  python-meh-0.17.tar.gz