diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index fcc4b7a9e..f59baddfe 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is Greg Schafer, and
 Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes bug 1670).</para>
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>December 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
+</listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>December 12, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues with
 texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
 </listitem>
diff --git a/chapter03/packages.xml b/chapter03/packages.xml
index 30f28c9cc..2dcd00982 100644
--- a/chapter03/packages.xml
+++ b/chapter03/packages.xml
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html#ftp"/>.</para></note>
 </varlistentry>
 
 <varlistentry>
-<term>Man-pages (&man-pages-version;) - 1,682 KB:</term>
+<term>Man-pages (&man-pages-version;) - 1,688 KB:</term>
 <listitem>
 <para><ulink url="&kernel;linux/docs/manpages/"/></para>
 </listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/man-pages.xml b/chapter06/man-pages.xml
index c92534e10..8f64c90f9 100644
--- a/chapter06/man-pages.xml
+++ b/chapter06/man-pages.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 <segmentedlist>
 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>18.4 MB</seg></seglistitem>
+<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>18.6 MB</seg></seglistitem>
 </segmentedlist>
 
 <segmentedlist>
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 3c45e4d5c..7067f0a1c 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20051213">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "December 13, 2005">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20051217">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "December 17, 2005">
 <!ENTITY milestone "6.2">
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
 
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 <!ENTITY m4-version "1.4.4">
 <!ENTITY make-version "3.80">
 <!ENTITY man-version "1.6b">
-<!ENTITY man-pages-version "2.16">
+<!ENTITY man-pages-version "2.17">
 <!ENTITY mktemp-version "1.5">
 <!ENTITY module-init-tools-version "3.2.2">
 <!ENTITY ncurses-version "5.5">