diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 6db19b9..463488b 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.17.0"
+  ".": "0.17.1"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b5202f1..4a007e9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.17.1 (2025-10-18)
+
+Full Changelog: [v0.17.0...v0.17.1](https://github.com/perplexityai/perplexity-py/compare/v0.17.0...v0.17.1)
+
+### Chores
+
+* bump `httpx-aiohttp` version to 0.1.9 ([c51305f](https://github.com/perplexityai/perplexity-py/commit/c51305fa20dc6109a5efcfcac1f78686234e6147))
+
 ## 0.17.0 (2025-10-16)
 
 Full Changelog: [v0.16.1...v0.17.0](https://github.com/perplexityai/perplexity-py/compare/v0.16.1...v0.17.0)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4f85920..877f0af 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "perplexityai"
-version = "0.17.0"
+version = "0.17.1"
 description = "The official Python library for the perplexity API"
 dynamic = ["readme"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Homepage = "https://github.com/perplexityai/perplexity-py"
 Repository = "https://github.com/perplexityai/perplexity-py"
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
-aiohttp = ["aiohttp", "httpx_aiohttp>=0.1.8"]
+aiohttp = ["aiohttp", "httpx_aiohttp>=0.1.9"]
 
 [tool.rye]
 managed = true
diff --git a/requirements-dev.lock b/requirements-dev.lock
index f7247c1..b2cc908 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.lock
+++ b/requirements-dev.lock
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ httpx==0.28.1
     # via httpx-aiohttp
     # via perplexityai
     # via respx
-httpx-aiohttp==0.1.8
+httpx-aiohttp==0.1.9
     # via perplexityai
 idna==3.4
     # via anyio
diff --git a/requirements.lock b/requirements.lock
index 7c24d8f..a72c2ad 100644
--- a/requirements.lock
+++ b/requirements.lock
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ httpcore==1.0.9
 httpx==0.28.1
     # via httpx-aiohttp
     # via perplexityai
-httpx-aiohttp==0.1.8
+httpx-aiohttp==0.1.9
     # via perplexityai
 idna==3.4
     # via anyio
diff --git a/src/perplexity/_version.py b/src/perplexity/_version.py
index c72e96f..ff0eaeb 100644
--- a/src/perplexity/_version.py
+++ b/src/perplexity/_version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # File generated from our OpenAPI spec by Stainless. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
 
 __title__ = "perplexity"
-__version__ = "0.17.0"  # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = "0.17.1"  # x-release-please-version