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-size 194772
diff --git a/axel-2.17.3.tar.xz b/axel-2.17.3.tar.xz
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diff --git a/axel.changes b/axel.changes
index f01ce44..f3e2268 100644
--- a/axel.changes
+++ b/axel.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,40 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jun  9 19:21:11 UTC 2019 - Sebastian Wagner <sebix+novell.com@sebix.at>
+
+- update to version 2.17.3:
+ - Builds now use canonical host triplet instead of `uname -s`
+ - Fixed build on Darwin / Mac OS X
+ - Fixed download loops caused by last byte pointer being off by one
+ - Fixed linking issues (i18n and posix threads)
+ - Updated build instructions
+ - Code cleanup
+ - Added autoconf-archive to building instructions
+- update to version 2.17.2:
+ - Fixed HTTP request-ranges to be zero-based
+ - Fixed typo "too may" -> "too many"
+ - Replaced malloc + memset calls with calloc
+ - Sanitize progress bar buffer len passed to memset
+- update to version 2.17.1:
+ - Fixed comparison error in axel_divide
+ - Make sure maxconns is at least 1
+- update to version 2.17:
+ - Fixed composition of URLs in redirections
+ - Fixed request range calculation
+ - Updated all translations
+ - Updated build documentation
+ - Major code cleanup
+  -  Cleanup of alternate progress output
+  -  Removed global string buffers
+  -  Fixed min and max macros
+  -  Moved User-Agent header to conf->add_header
+  -  Use integers for speed ratio and delay calculation
+ - Added support for parsing IPv6 literal hostname
+ - Fixed filename extraction from URL
+ - Fixed request-target message to proxy
+ - Handle secure protocol's schema even with SSL disabled
+ - Fixed Content-Disposition filename value decoding
+ - Strip leading hyphens in extracted filenames
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Mar 21 20:45:51 UTC 2019 - Sebastian Wagner <sebix+novell.com@sebix.at>
 
diff --git a/axel.spec b/axel.spec
index 0c5fff0..c95fccb 100644
--- a/axel.spec
+++ b/axel.spec
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 %{!?license: %global license %doc}
 Name:           axel
-Version:        2.16.1
+Version:        2.17.3
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Lightweight Download Accelerator
 License:        GPL-2.0-or-later