diff --git a/website/BUGS.html b/website/BUGS.html
index 150d4123..8132114a 100644
--- a/website/BUGS.html
+++ b/website/BUGS.html
@@ -103,20 +103,34 @@
       </ul>
 
       <h2><a name="b_1_17_3">recoll 1.17.3</a></h2> 
+      
+      <p>Fixed in 1.17.4 and 1.18:</p>
+      <ul>
+        <li>The real time monitor can be terminated for permissions-related
+          addwatch errors that should be non-fatal.</li>
+        <li>text/plain files are sometimes opened as csv (using a
+          spreadsheet...)</li> 
+        <li>Tilde expansion was wrong for the
+          beaglequeuedir/webqueuedir variable, causing problem when
+          using the new Web history indexer module with 1.17.</li>
+        <li>Fixed relatively benign memory leak in the filters
+         cache handler.</li>
+        <li>Prevent document indexing truncation caused by unac in
+          some marginal case which became quite common with the recent
+          versions of pdftotext.</li>
+      </ul>
 
+      <p>Only fixed in the 1.18 branch:</p>
       <ul>
         <li>Messages in Qt standard dialog messages are not translated.</li>
         <li>The unac_except_trans mechanism can generate wrong
           character translations in some cases.</li> 
-        <li>The real time monitor can be terminated for for permissions-related
-          addwatch errors that should be non-fatal.</li>
         <li>ODF documents exported by Google docs are badly
           processed.</li> 
         <li>It is impossible to open the parent of an
           embedded document (e.g. the CHM file for an HTML page
           inside the CHM) if the parent is itself a member of an
           archive.</li> 
-
         <li>Text inside malformed HTML files (appearing before a &lt;body&gt;
           tag, or after a second one, or after a &lt;/body&gt; tag is
           not indexed. As it would be displayed by current browsers,
diff --git a/website/download-1.17.html b/website/download-1.17.html
index 9f44af85..39c031ab 100644
--- a/website/download-1.17.html
+++ b/website/download-1.17.html
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 
       <h2><a>General information</a></h2>
 
-      <p>The current version is 1.17.3. <a href="release-1.17.html">
+      <p>The current version is 1.17.4. <a href="release-1.17.html">
           Release notes</a>.</p>
 
       <p>The download page for Recoll 1.16 is
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
       <!-- Attention: source packages must remain here, not in a
         subdirectory, because of all the places they're referred from
         (package watches) -->
-       <p><a href="recoll-1.17.3.tar.gz">recoll-1.17.3.tar.gz</a>.
+       <p><a href="recoll-1.17.4.tar.gz">recoll-1.17.4.tar.gz</a>.
        </p>
 
 <!--
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@
 
       <h3>Older recoll releases:</h3>
        <p>
+        <a href="recoll-1.17.3.tar.gz">1.17.3</a>.
         <a href="recoll-1.17.2.tar.gz">1.17.2</a>.
         <a href="recoll-1.17.1.tar.gz">1.17.1</a>.
         <a href="recoll-1.16.2.tar.gz">1.16.2</a>.
diff --git a/website/index.html.en b/website/index.html.en
index a2ac46ca..fa3fdbf2 100644
--- a/website/index.html.en
+++ b/website/index.html.en
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@
       <h2>News</h2>
       <div class="news">
       <dl>
+        <dt>2012-11-23</dt><dd>Released a minor update to the very
+          stable 1.17
+          branch: <a href="download-1.17.html">1.17.4</a>.
+          <a href="release-1.17.html">release notes</a>.
+        </dd>
+
         <dt>2012-11-05</dt><dd>Recoll 1.18.1 is out. It has optional
           character case and diacritics 
           sensitivity, direct access to the hit page when opening PDF
diff --git a/website/release-1.17.html b/website/release-1.17.html
index 08389bf9..64be99f2 100644
--- a/website/release-1.17.html
+++ b/website/release-1.17.html
@@ -70,27 +70,32 @@
 
 
       <h2>Changes</h2>
+      
+      <p>1.17.4 is quite probably the last update on the very stable
+        1.17 branch. It has updated German and Greek messages, and fixes
+        a few bugs, see the <a href="BUGS.html#b_1_17_3">BUGS
+        file</a>.</p> 
 
+      <p>1.17.3 fixed a nasty indexing bug in email processing
+        code. This was triggered most probably my messages containing
+        Microsoft mimehtml attachments, but possibly by other ones
+        too, and caused an indexing crash. Also fixes small glitches
+        in result list paging.</p>
+      <p>1.17.2 fixed a few <a href="BUGS.html#b_1_17_1">bugs</a> and
+        adds a small feature for handling characters that should not
+        be accented in your language (ie: å in swedish). See
+        <tt>unac_except_trans</tt>x in the manual configuration
+        section. Also a new <tt>rcldia</tt> filter for Dia files.</p>
+      <p>1.17.1 was released only for a small function needed for
+        supporting the Unity Lens. If you don't need it, you can stay
+        with 1.17.0.</p>
       <p>Recoll 1.17 is an incremental improvements release over 1.16, 
         with quite a few changes under the hood (like the introduction
         of a webkit-based result list), but relatively few obvious
         changes for the casual user.</p> 
 
-      <p>1.17.1 was released only for a small function needed for
-        supporting the Unity Lens. If you don't need it, you can stay
-        with 1.17.0.</p>
       
-      <p>1.17.2 fixes a few <a href="BUGS.html#b_1_17_1">bugs</a> and
-        adds a small feature for handling characters that should not
-        be accented in your language (ie: å in swedish). See
-        <tt>unac_except_trans</tt>x in the manual configuration
-        section. Also a new <tt>rcldia</tt> filter for Dia files.</p>
 
-      <p>1.17.3 fixes a nasty indexing bug in email processing
-        code. This was triggered most probably my messages containing
-        Microsoft mimehtml attachments, but possibly by other ones
-        too, and caused an indexing crash. Also fixes small glitches
-        in result list paging.</p>
 
       <p>Recoll 1.17.0 changes:</p>