diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index baef8bec5..3eeb1c389 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,43 @@
+Release 1.17.4 (2020-11-27 Bryce Harrington <bryce@bryceharrington.org>)
+========================================================================
+
+Thank you to the many people who have contributed the large number of
+bug fixes and refinements since 1.17.2.
+
+A particularly noteworthy improvement in this release is the addition of
+the meson build system as an alternative to autotools.  Autotools is
+still used for producing the releases, so will be the default in the
+tarball and presumably will still be preferred by distro packagers of
+Cairo.  It should be possible to build the release tarball using meson,
+but as this is new functionality consider it still a work in progress.
+The meson configuration has striven to track the autotools
+implementation but be aware there may still be some differences between
+the two.
+
+Continuous Integration configurations have been added that enable
+testing on a variety of platforms including Fedora, Windows MSVC, etc.
+This work has helped in identifying updates and fixes including
+adjusting to changes in API calls in dependencies like rsvg and
+fontconfig, and to fix platform-specific build issues.
+
+The cogl Cairo backend underwent significant development this cycle.
+Cogl provides GPU accelerated drawing support.  The development work
+includes implementation of core functionality, performance
+optimizations, and stabilization.
+
+Subpixel positioning support allows improved glyph outlines with the
+Freetype font backend.
+
+For a complete log of changes, please see
+
+    https://cairographics.org/releases/ChangeLog.1.17.4
+
+[On a personal note, this will be my last release for Cairo.  My Cairo
+time availability has been non-existent (particularly this crazy past
+year).  The release process is well documented and hopefully will help
+whomever picks up the baton from here.]
+
+
 Release 1.17.2 (2019-01-31 Bryce Harrington <bryce@bryceharrington.org>)
 ========================================================================
 This snapshot provides the new support for writing floating point
diff --git a/build/Makefile.am.releasing b/build/Makefile.am.releasing
index 329d49c8c..c8fd01a13 100644
--- a/build/Makefile.am.releasing
+++ b/build/Makefile.am.releasing
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ snapshot-dist: dist
 	  sed -e 1h -e 1s/./=/g -e 1p -e 1x -e '$$p' -e '$$x'
 
 RELEASE_OR_SNAPSHOT = $$(if test "x$(CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR)" = "x$$(echo "$(CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR)/2*2" | bc)" ; then echo release; else echo snapshot; fi)
-RELEASE_UPLOAD_HOST =   cairographics.org
+RELEASE_UPLOAD_HOST =   cairo.freedesktop.org
 RELEASE_UPLOAD_BASE =	/srv/cairo.freedesktop.org/www
 RELEASE_UPLOAD_DIR =	$(RELEASE_UPLOAD_BASE)/$(RELEASE_OR_SNAPSHOT)s
 RELEASE_URL_BASE = 	https://cairographics.org/$(RELEASE_OR_SNAPSHOT)s
diff --git a/src/cairo-version.h b/src/cairo-version.h
index 605ec1a7c..9fd69fb45 100644
--- a/src/cairo-version.h
+++ b/src/cairo-version.h
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 
 #define CAIRO_VERSION_MAJOR 1
 #define CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR 17
-#define CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO 3
+#define CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO 4
 
 #endif