diff --git a/.github/release-please-manifest.json b/.github/release-please-manifest.json
index 90406c355b7..840a9f0dc63 100644
--- a/.github/release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.github/release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1 +1 @@
-{".":"2.17.0"}
+{".":"2.17.1"}
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d61c0b92f9a..55c666d2e03 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -100,6 +100,13 @@
 * **tar:** cache the parse result of GNU tar help ([247ba7b](https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/commit/247ba7bb794332a42920cae796a4a9deff5179b0))
 * **tar:** parse the GNU tar help on initialization ([b030e07](https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/commit/b030e07f1055dbc1e40b7d2f17ccd045802ff061))
 
+## [2.17.1](https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/compare/2.17.0...2.17.1) (2025-11-05)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **_comp_complete_service:** fix init-script-action parsing ([#1499](https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/1499)) ([91e075a](https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/commit/91e075a96d39d0234ada752a63937f63ea186eb8))
+
 ## [2.16.0](https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/compare/2.15.0...2.16.0) (2024-12-25)
 
 
diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion
index 30e18cedb42..8a6f53c5e33 100644
--- a/bash_completion
+++ b/bash_completion
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 BASH_COMPLETION_VERSINFO=(
     2  # x-release-please-major
     17 # x-release-please-minor
-    0  # x-release-please-patch
+    1  # x-release-please-patch
 )
 
 if [[ $- == *v* ]]; then
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 050d892d2fd..64e241cd9c0 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.60])
-AC_INIT([bash-completion], [2.17.0]) dnl x-release-please-version
+AC_INIT([bash-completion], [2.17.1]) dnl x-release-please-version
 dnl tar-pax for portable UTF-8 handling
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([
     foreign dist-xz no-dist-gzip tar-pax -Wall -Wno-portability -Werror
diff --git a/version.txt b/version.txt
index d76bd2ba3ef..3f8eb714d02 100644
--- a/version.txt
+++ b/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.17.0
+2.17.1