diff --git a/.github/workflows/windows.yml b/.github/workflows/windows.yml
index d69488f3a9..5d132a622b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/windows.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/windows.yml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
 
         python3.exe -m pip wheel .
         if(!$?) { Exit $LASTEXITCODE }
-        python3.exe -m pip install openPMD_api-0.16.0-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl
+        python3.exe -m pip install openPMD_api-0.17.0.dev0-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl
         if(!$?) { Exit $LASTEXITCODE }
 
         python3.exe -c "import openpmd_api as api; print(api.variants)"
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index b3bb13c8b0..9504dca156 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ contact:
   orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1943-7141
   email: axelhuebl@lbl.gov
 title: "openPMD-api: C++ & Python API for Scientific I/O with openPMD"
-version: 0.16.0
+version: 0.17.0-dev
 repository-code: https://github.com/openPMD/openPMD-api
 doi: 10.14278/rodare.27
 license: LGPL-3.0-or-later
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index a0cc161f4a..fc5d6d5de5 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.22.0)
 
-project(openPMD VERSION 0.16.0) # LANGUAGES CXX
+project(openPMD VERSION 0.17.0) # LANGUAGES CXX
 
 # the openPMD "markup"/"schema" standard version
 set(openPMD_STANDARD_VERSION 1.1.0)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f55bfac308..79dc6f1714 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$HOME/somepath:$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
 Use the following lines in your project's `CMakeLists.txt`:
 ```cmake
 # supports:                       COMPONENTS MPI NOMPI HDF5 ADIOS2
-find_package(openPMD 0.16.0 CONFIG)
+find_package(openPMD 0.17.0 CONFIG)
 
 if(openPMD_FOUND)
     target_link_libraries(YourTarget PRIVATE openPMD::openPMD)
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ set(openPMD_INSTALL OFF)            # or instead use:
 set(openPMD_USE_PYTHON OFF)
 FetchContent_Declare(openPMD
   GIT_REPOSITORY "https://github.com/openPMD/openPMD-api.git"
-  GIT_TAG        "0.16.0")
+  GIT_TAG        "0.17.0")
 FetchContent_MakeAvailable(openPMD)
 ```
 
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 6a4cecf028..af1253a139 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -86,9 +86,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = u'0.16.0'
+version = u'0.17.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = u'0.16.0'
+release = u'0.17.0-dev'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/docs/source/dev/linking.rst b/docs/source/dev/linking.rst
index 191612f541..033f813839 100644
--- a/docs/source/dev/linking.rst
+++ b/docs/source/dev/linking.rst
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Use the following lines in your project's ``CMakeLists.txt``:
 .. code-block:: cmake
 
    # supports:                       COMPONENTS MPI NOMPI HDF5 ADIOS2
-   find_package(openPMD 0.16.0 CONFIG)
+   find_package(openPMD 0.17.0 CONFIG)
 
    if(openPMD_FOUND)
        target_link_libraries(YourTarget PRIVATE openPMD::openPMD)
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Just replace the ``add_subdirectory`` call with:
    set(openPMD_USE_PYTHON OFF)
    FetchContent_Declare(openPMD
      GIT_REPOSITORY "https://github.com/openPMD/openPMD-api.git"
-     GIT_TAG        "0.16.0")
+     GIT_TAG        "0.17.0")
    FetchContent_MakeAvailable(openPMD)
 
 
diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst
index 5939b61965..db2bbc3002 100644
--- a/docs/source/index.rst
+++ b/docs/source/index.rst
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ openPMD-api version      supported openPMD standard versions
 ======================== ===================================
 ``2.0.0+``               ``2.0.0+``      (not released yet)
 ``1.0.0+``               ``1.0.1-1.1.0`` (not released yet)
-``0.13.1-0.16.0`` (beta) ``1.0.0-1.1.0``
+``0.13.1-0.17.0`` (beta) ``1.0.0-1.1.0``
 ``0.1.0-0.12.0`` (alpha) ``1.0.0-1.1.0``
 ======================== ===================================
 
diff --git a/include/openPMD/version.hpp b/include/openPMD/version.hpp
index 9f32154d92..bc1de8a5c6 100644
--- a/include/openPMD/version.hpp
+++ b/include/openPMD/version.hpp
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
  * @{
  */
 #define OPENPMDAPI_VERSION_MAJOR 0
-#define OPENPMDAPI_VERSION_MINOR 16
+#define OPENPMDAPI_VERSION_MINOR 17
 #define OPENPMDAPI_VERSION_PATCH 0
-#define OPENPMDAPI_VERSION_LABEL ""
+#define OPENPMDAPI_VERSION_LABEL "dev"
 /** @} */
 
 /** maximum supported version of the openPMD standard (read & write,
diff --git a/new_version.py b/new_version.py
index 59f2e4e49d..a261c99add 100755
--- a/new_version.py
+++ b/new_version.py
@@ -14,13 +14,11 @@
 
 # Maintainer Inputs ###########################################################
 
-print(
-    """Hi there, this is an openPMD maintainer tool to update the source
+print("""Hi there, this is an openPMD maintainer tool to update the source
 code of openPMD-api to a new version.
 For it to work, you need write access on the source directory and
 you should be working in a clean git branch without ongoing
-rebase/merge/conflict resolves and without unstaged changes."""
-)
+rebase/merge/conflict resolves and without unstaged changes.""")
 
 # check source dir
 # REPO_DIR = Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent.absolute()
@@ -40,6 +38,7 @@
 
 VERSION_STR = f"{MAJOR}.{MINOR}.{PATCH}"
 VERSION_STR_SUFFIX = VERSION_STR + (f"-{SUFFIX}" if SUFFIX else "")
+VERSION_STR_SUFFIX_WITH_DOT = VERSION_STR + (f".{SUFFIX}" if SUFFIX else "")
 
 print()
 print(f"Your new version is: {VERSION_STR_SUFFIX}")
@@ -51,20 +50,41 @@
     for line in f:
         match = re.search(r"find_package.*openPMD *([^ ]*) *CONFIG\).*", line)
         if match:
-            OLD_VERSION_STR = match.group(1)
+            OLD_VERSION_STR_README = match.group(1)
+            break
+
+with open(str(REPO_DIR.joinpath("CMakeLists.txt")), encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    for line in f:
+        match = re.search(r"project\(openPMD *VERSION *(.*)\)", line)
+        if match:
+            OLD_VERSION_STR_CMAKE = match.group(1)
             break
 
+OLD_VERSION_TAG = ""
+with open(str(REPO_DIR.joinpath("include/openPMD/version.hpp")),
+          encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    for line in f:
+        match = re.search(r'#define OPENPMDAPI_VERSION_LABEL "([^"]+)"', line)
+        if match:
+            OLD_VERSION_TAG = match.group(1)
+            break
+
+OLD_VERSION_SUFFIX = f"(-{OLD_VERSION_TAG})?" if OLD_VERSION_TAG else ""
+# The order of the alternatives is important, since the Regex parser
+# should greedily include the old version suffix
+OLD_VERSION_STR = \
+    f"({re.escape(OLD_VERSION_STR_CMAKE)}{OLD_VERSION_SUFFIX})" + \
+    f"|({re.escape(OLD_VERSION_STR_README)})"
+
 print(f"The old version is: {OLD_VERSION_STR}")
 print()
 
-
 REPLY = input("Is this information correct? Will now start updating! [y/N] ")
 print()
 if REPLY not in ["Y", "y", ""]:
     print("You did not confirm with 'y', aborting.")
     sys.exit(1)
 
-
 # Ask for new #################################################################
 
 print("""We will now run a few sed commands on your source directory.\n""")
@@ -86,18 +106,56 @@
     f.write(cmakelists_content)
 
 
-def generic_replace(filename):
+def generic_replace(filename, previous, after):
     filename = str(REPO_DIR.joinpath(filename))
     with open(filename, encoding="utf-8") as f:
         content = f.read()
-        content = re.sub(re.escape(OLD_VERSION_STR), VERSION_STR, content)
+        content = re.sub(previous, after, content, flags=re.MULTILINE)
 
     with open(filename, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
         f.write(content)
 
 
-for file in ["docs/source/dev/linking.rst", "README.md"]:
-    generic_replace(file)
+for file in [
+        "docs/source/dev/linking.rst",
+        "README.md",
+]:
+    generic_replace(file, previous=OLD_VERSION_STR, after=VERSION_STR)
+
+for file in ["CITATION.cff", "test/SerialIOTest.cpp"]:
+    generic_replace(file, previous=OLD_VERSION_STR, after=VERSION_STR_SUFFIX)
+
+generic_replace(
+    "docs/source/index.rst",
+    previous=r"``0.13.1-[^`]*``",
+    after=f"``0.13.1-{VERSION_STR}``",
+)
+setup_py_path = str(REPO_DIR.joinpath("setup.py"))
+with open(setup_py_path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    for line in f:
+        match = re.search(r"version='([^']+)',", line)
+        if match:
+            PREVIOUS_PIP_VERSION = match.group(1)
+            break
+generic_replace("setup.py",
+                previous=PREVIOUS_PIP_VERSION,
+                after=VERSION_STR_SUFFIX_WITH_DOT)
+generic_replace(
+    ".github/workflows/windows.yml",
+    previous=f"{PREVIOUS_PIP_VERSION}0?",
+    after=(f"{VERSION_STR_SUFFIX_WITH_DOT}0"
+           if SUFFIX else VERSION_STR_SUFFIX_WITH_DOT),
+)
+generic_replace(
+    "docs/source/conf.py",
+    previous=r"^version.*=.*",
+    after=f"version = u'{VERSION_STR}'",
+)
+generic_replace(
+    "docs/source/conf.py",
+    previous=r"^release.*=.*",
+    after=f"release = u'{VERSION_STR_SUFFIX}'",
+)
 
 version_hpp_path = str(REPO_DIR.joinpath("include/openPMD/version.hpp"))
 with open(version_hpp_path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
@@ -122,8 +180,6 @@ def replace(key, value):
 
 # Epilogue ####################################################################
 
-print(
-    """Done. Please check your source, e.g. via
+print("""Done. Please check your source, e.g. via
   git diff
-now and commit the changes if no errors occurred."""
-)
+now and commit the changes if no errors occurred.""")
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ac0d86fcb7..1ef958e87d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ def build_extension(self, ext):
 setup(
     name='openPMD-api',
     # note PEP-440 syntax: x.y.zaN but x.y.z.devN
-    version='0.16.0',
+    version='0.17.0.dev',
     author='Axel Huebl, Franz Poeschel, Fabian Koller, Junmin Gu',
     author_email='axelhuebl@lbl.gov, f.poeschel@hzdr.de',
     maintainer='Axel Huebl',
diff --git a/test/SerialIOTest.cpp b/test/SerialIOTest.cpp
index f55c5ec235..b21e459270 100644
--- a/test/SerialIOTest.cpp
+++ b/test/SerialIOTest.cpp
@@ -6363,7 +6363,7 @@ void adios2_bp5_no_steps(bool usesteps)
         IO.DefineAttribute("/openPMD", std::string("1.1.0"));
         IO.DefineAttribute("/openPMDextension", uint32_t(0));
         IO.DefineAttribute("/software", std::string("openPMD-api"));
-        IO.DefineAttribute("/softwareVersion", std::string("0.16.0"));
+        IO.DefineAttribute("/softwareVersion", std::string("0.17.0-dev"));
 
         IO.DefineAttribute("/data/0/dt", double(1));
         IO.DefineAttribute(