diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 14dd33f..0448e01 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /packaging-16.7.tar.gz
 /packaging-16.8.tar.gz
+/packaging-17.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-packaging.spec b/python-packaging.spec
index ea93e7a..7438749 100644
--- a/python-packaging.spec
+++ b/python-packaging.spec
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 %global python3_wheelname %python2_wheelname
 
 Name:           python-%{pypi_name}
-Version:        16.8
-Release:        8%{?dist}
+Version:        17.1
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Core utilities for Python packages
 
 License:        BSD or ASL 2.0
@@ -167,6 +167,9 @@ rm -rf html/_static/fonts/
 %license LICENSE LICENSE.APACHE LICENSE.BSD
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Mar 14 2018 Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> - 17.1-1
+- Update to 17.1
+
 * Fri Feb 09 2018 Iryna Shcherbina <ishcherb@redhat.com> - 16.8-8
 - Update Python 2 dependency declarations to new packaging standards
   (See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3)
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 5a8f473..bc39b9f 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-53895cdca04ecff80b54128e475b5d3b  packaging-16.8.tar.gz
+SHA512 (packaging-17.1.tar.gz) = 52d2f482ae5cd0f8e7b3ac35c4b270ca736bc4f7ebaa569631d1dcb8ea024ee6f75127ca2aa3c95e686ebbd427de2ef4bc01bcd839591f7b4c1e26f9b8d9acb0