diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 17fc111dd..a5e63932a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Once TensorFlow's dependencies are installed, clone the `ngraph-bridge` repo:
 
         git clone https://github.com/tensorflow/ngraph-bridge.git
         cd ngraph-bridge
-        git checkout v0.16.0-rc3
+        git checkout v0.17.0-rc0
 
 Run the following Python script to build TensorFlow, nGraph, and the bridge. Use Python 3.5:
 
diff --git a/ngraph_bridge/version.cc b/ngraph_bridge/version.cc
index 98c6cd082..b13792694 100644
--- a/ngraph_bridge/version.cc
+++ b/ngraph_bridge/version.cc
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 // nGraph-TensorFlow bridge uses semantic versioning: see http://semver.org/
 
 #define NG_TF_MAJOR_VERSION 0
-#define NG_TF_MINOR_VERSION 16
+#define NG_TF_MINOR_VERSION 17
 #define NG_TF_PATCH_VERSION 0
 
 // The version suffix is used for pre-release version numbers
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 // candidate such as v0.7.0-rc0
 // The code in master will always have the last released version number
 // with a suffix of '-master'
-#define NG_TF_VERSION_SUFFIX "-rc3"
+#define NG_TF_VERSION_SUFFIX "-rc0"
 
 #define VERSION_STR_HELPER(x) #x
 #define VERSION_STR(x) VERSION_STR_HELPER(x)
diff --git a/python/setup.in.py b/python/setup.in.py
index 686e9630f..da344926e 100644
--- a/python/setup.in.py
+++ b/python/setup.in.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def get_tag(self):
 
 setup( 
     name='ngraph_tensorflow_bridge',
-    version='0.16.0rc3',
+    version='0.17.0rc0',
     description='Intel nGraph compiler and runtime for TensorFlow',
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",