diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9728dee3..01e6b534 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ m4_define([year_version], [2017])
 m4_define([release_version], [9])
 m4_define([package_version], [year_version.release_version])
 AC_INIT([libostree], [package_version], [walters@verbum.org])
-is_release_build=no
+is_release_build=yes
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([buildutil])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
diff --git a/src/libostree/libostree-devel.sym b/src/libostree/libostree-devel.sym
index 68ed4020..c93e388a 100644
--- a/src/libostree/libostree-devel.sym
+++ b/src/libostree/libostree-devel.sym
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 ***/
 
 /* Add new symbols here.  Release commits should copy this section into -released.sym. */
-LIBOSTREE_2017.9 {
+LIBOSTREE_2017.10 {
 };
 
 /* Stub section for the stable release *after* this development one; don't
diff --git a/src/libostree/libostree-released.sym b/src/libostree/libostree-released.sym
index b68d6a5e..0a138966 100644
--- a/src/libostree/libostree-released.sym
+++ b/src/libostree/libostree-released.sym
@@ -413,6 +413,9 @@ global:
   ostree_validate_remote_name;
 } LIBOSTREE_2017.7;
 
+LIBOSTREE_2017.9 {
+};
+
 /* NOTE: Only add more content here in release commits!  See the
  * comments at the top of this file.
  */
diff --git a/tests/test-symbols.sh b/tests/test-symbols.sh
index fcc345f0..e6504c93 100755
--- a/tests/test-symbols.sh
+++ b/tests/test-symbols.sh
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ echo 'ok documented symbols'
 
 # ONLY update this checksum in release commits!
 cat > released-sha256.txt <<EOF
-d3f3d564e4679d603220da0cea940867fde28622857d088a8287db730bcc8001  ${released_syms}
+d96fc94ded6c862099654bf8eb3ea82c760ee4d6f193cb3380663f35602468d4  ${released_syms}
 EOF
 sha256sum -c released-sha256.txt