diff --git a/bigquery/CHANGELOG.md b/bigquery/CHANGELOG.md
index 2f2bb2688ff9..0d6630ef3bba 100644
--- a/bigquery/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/bigquery/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,19 @@
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-bigquery/#history
 
+## 1.17.0
+
+07-12-2019 07:56 PDT
+
+### New Features
+
+- Support faster Arrow data format in `to_dataframe` when using BigQuery Storage API. ([#8551](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8551))
+- Add `to_arrow` to get a `pyarrow.Table` from query results. ([#8609](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8609))
+
+### Dependencies
+
+- Exclude bad 0.14.0 `pyarrow` release. ([#8551](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/8551))
+
 ## 1.16.0
 
 07-01-2019 10:22 PDT
diff --git a/bigquery/setup.py b/bigquery/setup.py
index 6dfde2e439b2..a05c18053379 100644
--- a/bigquery/setup.py
+++ b/bigquery/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 name = "google-cloud-bigquery"
 description = "Google BigQuery API client library"
-version = "1.16.0"
+version = "1.17.0"
 # Should be one of:
 # 'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha'
 # 'Development Status :: 4 - Beta'