diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 934104ae6..244beeebd 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: recipes
 Title: Preprocessing and Feature Engineering Steps for Modeling
-Version: 0.1.16.9000
+Version: 0.1.17
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Max",
              family = "Kuhn",
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Authors@R:
              email = "hadley@rstudio.com"),
       person(given = "RStudio",
              role = "cph"))
-Description: Recipes prepare your data for modeling. An extensible
+Description: A recipe prepares your data for modeling. We provide an extensible
     framework for pipeable sequences of feature engineering steps provides
     preprocessing tools to be applied to data. Statistical parameters for
     the steps can be estimated from an initial data set and then applied
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e6e649b61..87829d6da 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# recipes (development version)
+# recipes 0.1.17
 
 ## New Steps
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d9f38b9d9..1bbf66b33 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ad_rec <- recipe(Class ~ tau + VEGF, data = ad_data) %>%
   step_normalize(all_numeric_predictors())
 
 ad_rec
-#> Data Recipe
+#> Recipe
 #> 
 #> Inputs:
 #>