diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9b296894e..d7a968008 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,57 @@
+## 0.17.0 / 2016-01-27
+
+This version no longer works with Alertmanager version 0.4.0 and earlier!
+The alerting rule syntax has changed as well but the old syntax is supported
+up until version 0.18.
+
+* [CHANGE] Integrate with Alertmanager version 0.1.0 and higher
+* [CHANGE] Degraded storage mode renamed to rushed mode
+* [CHANGE] New alerting rule syntax
+* [CHANGE] Add label validation on ingestion
+* [CHANGE] Regular expression matchers in PromQL are anchored
+* [FEATURE] Send alert resolved notifications to Alertmanager
+* [FEATURE] Allow millisecond precision in configuration file
+* [FEATURE] Support AirBnB's Smartstack Nerve for service discovery
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Storage switches less often between regular and rushed mode.
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Storage switches into rushed mode if there are too many memory chunks.
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Added more storage instrumentation
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Improved instrumentation of notification handler
+* [BUGFIX] Do not count head chunks as chunks waiting for persistence
+* [BUGFIX] Handle OPTIOPNS HTTP requests to the API correctly
+* [BUGFIX] Parsing of ranges in PromQL fixed
+* [BUGFIX] Correctly validate URL flag paramters
+
+## 0.16.2 / 2016-01-18
+
+* [FEATURE] Multiple authentication options for EC2 discovery added
+* [FEATURE] Several meta labels for EC2 discovery added
+* [FEATURE] Allow full URLs in static target groups (used e.g. by the `blackbox_exporter`)
+* [FEATURE] Add Graphite remote-storage integration
+* [FEATURE] Create separate Kubernetes targets for services and their endpoints
+* [FEATURE] Add `clamp_{min,max}` functions to PromQL
+* [FEATURE] Omitted time parameter in API query defaults to now
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Less frequent time series file truncation
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Instrument number of  manually deleted time series
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Ignore lost+found directory during storage version detection
+* [CHANGE] Kubernetes `masters` renamed to `api_servers`
+* [CHANGE] "Healthy" and "unhealthy" targets are now called "up" and "down" in the web UI
+* [CHANGE] Remove undocumented 2nd argument of the `delta` function.
+  (This is a BREAKING CHANGE for users of the undocumented 2nd argument.)
+* [BUGFIX] Return proper HTTP status codes on API errors
+* [BUGFIX] Fix Kubernetes authentication configuration
+* [BUGFIX] Fix stripped OFFSET from in rule evaluation and display
+* [BUGFIX] Do not crash on failing Consul SD initialization
+* [BUGFIX] Revert changes to metric auto-completion
+* [BUGFIX] Add config overflow validation for TLS configuration
+* [BUGFIX] Skip already watched Zookeeper nodes in serverset SD
+* [BUGFIX] Don't federate stale samples
+* [BUGFIX] Move NaN to end of result for `topk/bottomk/sort/sort_desc/min/max`
+* [BUGFIX] Limit extrapolation of `delta/rate/increase`
+* [BUGFIX] Fix unhandled error in rule evaluation
+
+Some changes to the Kubernetes service discovery were integration since
+it was released as a beta feature.
+
 ## 0.16.1 / 2015-10-16
 
 * [FEATURE] Add `irate()` function.
diff --git a/scripts/release_tarballs.sh b/scripts/release_tarballs.sh
index 464a63546..b4b6b68e2 100755
--- a/scripts/release_tarballs.sh
+++ b/scripts/release_tarballs.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ for GOOS in "darwin" "freebsd" "linux" "windows"; do
     echo " >   $tarball"
     mkdir -p "${tarball_dir}"
     cp -a "prometheus${ext}" "promtool${ext}" consoles console_libraries "${tarball_dir}"
-    tar --owner=root --group=root -czf "${tarball}" "${tarball_dir}"
+    tar -czf "${tarball}" "${tarball_dir}"
     rm -rf "${tarball_dir}"
     rm "prometheus${ext}" "promtool${ext}"
   done