diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 66f12baa..197ce33d 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -3,13 +3,26 @@
 
 #### notes on release changes, ongoing development, and future planned work
 
-- All new development should target 0.15!
+- Minor version 0.17 is the last one to support Julia 0.6!!
 - Minor version 0.11 is the last one to support Julia 0.5!!
 	- Critical bugfixes only
     - `backports` branch is for Julia 0.5
 
 ---
 ## (current master)
+- All new development should target Julia 0.7!
+
+## 0.17.3
+- Log-scale heatmap edge computation
+- Fix size and dpi for GR and PyPlot
+- Fix fillrange with line segments on PyPlot and Plotly
+- fix flip for heatmap and image on GR
+- New attributes for PGFPlots
+- Widen axes for most series types and log scales
+- Plotly: fix log scale with no ticks
+- Fix axis flip on Plotly
+- Fix hover and zcolor interaction in Plotly
+- WebIO integration for PlotlyJS backend
 
 ## 0.17.2
 - fix single subplot in plotly
diff --git a/test/imgcomp.jl b/test/imgcomp.jl
index 5a5a6cdd..625d6d77 100644
--- a/test/imgcomp.jl
+++ b/test/imgcomp.jl
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ default(size=(500,300))
 # TODO: use julia's Condition type and the wait() and notify() functions to initialize a Window, then wait() on a condition that
 #       is referenced in a button press callback (the button clicked callback will call notify() on that condition)
 
-const _current_plots_version = v"0.17.2"
+const _current_plots_version = v"0.17.3"
 
 
 function image_comparison_tests(pkg::Symbol, idx::Int; debug = false, popup = isinteractive(), sigma = [1,1], eps = 1e-2)