diff --git a/rxvt-unicode/.md5sum b/rxvt-unicode/.md5sum
index e21e46370..c9db7b1dc 100644
--- a/rxvt-unicode/.md5sum
+++ b/rxvt-unicode/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2e2942e8367624affebc0568e3671b66  rxvt-unicode-9.16.tar.bz2
+1270432bdc7ce17dbb07d41a607081e0  rxvt-unicode-9.17.tar.bz2
diff --git a/rxvt-unicode/Pkgfile b/rxvt-unicode/Pkgfile
index 4256738bb..3ac410c66 100644
--- a/rxvt-unicode/Pkgfile
+++ b/rxvt-unicode/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on: xorg-libxft, xorg-libxpm, perl
 
 name=rxvt-unicode
-version=9.16
+version=9.17
 release=1
 source=(http://dist.schmorp.de/$name/Attic/$name-$version.tar.bz2)