From 7633baa6ddab2b1570ee98c181e466b823683146 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lauren Capelluto <laurencapelluto@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:07:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Bump version to 0.17.0 for next release (#5243)

Now that 0.16.0 is out the door this commit bumps
the version to 0.17.0 for the next release.

Mergify backport targets 0.16.0 release
---
 .mergify.yml       | 2 +-
 docs/conf.py       | 2 +-
 qiskit/VERSION.txt | 2 +-
 setup.py           | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.mergify.yml b/.mergify.yml
index 14ff8b2ae4..6187b16dca 100644
--- a/.mergify.yml
+++ b/.mergify.yml
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ pull_request_rules:
     actions:
       backport:
         branches:
-          - stable/0.15
+          - stable/0.16
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index ff064f371c..4aecd491e6 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ author = 'Qiskit Development Team'
 # The short X.Y version
 version = ''
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '0.16.0'
+release = '0.17.0'
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/qiskit/VERSION.txt b/qiskit/VERSION.txt
index 04a373efe6..c5523bd09b 100644
--- a/qiskit/VERSION.txt
+++ b/qiskit/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.16.0
+0.17.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fe44d9bd51..eba7481cc0 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ with open(README_PATH) as readme_file:
 
 setup(
     name="qiskit-terra",
-    version="0.16.0",
+    version="0.17.0",
     description="Software for developing quantum computing programs",
     long_description=README,
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',