diff --git a/_data/versions.yml b/_data/versions.yml
index 56f79ab..ef5d792 100644
--- a/_data/versions.yml
+++ b/_data/versions.yml
@@ -16,16 +16,16 @@
 # Database of the current version
 #
 current:
-  number: '0.17.0'
+  number: '0.17.1'
   pinned_number: '0.17.*'
-  date: '20 April 2020'
-  git-tag: '3cbcb7b62c2f2d02851bff837758637eb592a64b'
-  github-tag-link: 'https://github.com/apache/arrow/releases/tag/apache-arrow-0.17.0'
-  release-notes: 'https://arrow.apache.org/release/0.17.0.html'
-  mirrors: 'https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/arrow/arrow-0.17.0/'
-  tarball_name: 'apache-arrow-0.17.0.tar.gz'
-  mirrors-tar: 'https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/arrow/arrow-0.17.0/apache-arrow-0.17.0.tar.gz'
-  java-artifacts: 'http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.apache.arrow%22%20AND%20v%3A%220.17.0%22'
-  asc: 'https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow-0.17.0/apache-arrow-0.17.0.tar.gz.asc'
-  sha256: 'https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow-0.17.0/apache-arrow-0.17.0.tar.gz.sha256'
-  sha512: 'https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow-0.17.0/apache-arrow-0.17.0.tar.gz.sha512'
+  date: '18 May 2020'
+  git-tag: 'ff7ee06020949daf66ac05090753e1a17736d9fa'
+  github-tag-link: 'https://github.com/apache/arrow/releases/tag/apache-arrow-0.17.1'
+  release-notes: 'https://arrow.apache.org/release/0.17.1.html'
+  mirrors: 'https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/arrow/arrow-0.17.1/'
+  tarball_name: 'apache-arrow-0.17.1.tar.gz'
+  mirrors-tar: 'https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/arrow/arrow-0.17.1/apache-arrow-0.17.1.tar.gz'
+  java-artifacts: 'http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.apache.arrow%22%20AND%20v%3A%220.17.1%22'
+  asc: 'https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow-0.17.1/apache-arrow-0.17.1.tar.gz.asc'
+  sha256: 'https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow-0.17.1/apache-arrow-0.17.1.tar.gz.sha256'
+  sha512: 'https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/arrow-0.17.1/apache-arrow-0.17.1.tar.gz.sha512'
diff --git a/_release/0.17.1.md b/_release/0.17.1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f7082d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_release/0.17.1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+---
+layout: default
+title: Apache Arrow 0.17.1 Release
+permalink: /release/0.17.1.html
+---
+<!--
+{% comment %}
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+{% endcomment %}
+-->
+
+# Apache Arrow 0.17.1 (18 May 2020)
+
+This is a patch release fixing bugs and regressions listed in the changelog below.
+
+## Download
+
+* [**Source Artifacts**][1]
+* **Binary Artifacts**
+  * [For CentOS][2]
+  * [For Debian][3]
+  * [For Python][4]
+  * [For Ubuntu][5]
+* [Git tag][6]
+
+## Contributors
+
+This release includes 27 commits from 11 distinct contributors.
+
+```console
+$ git shortlog -sn apache-arrow-0.17.0..apache-arrow-0.17.1
+     9	Krisztián Szűcs
+     4	Sutou Kouhei
+     3	Neal Richardson
+     3	Wes McKinney
+     2	Antoine Pitrou
+     1	Eric Erhardt
+     1	Joris Van den Bossche
+     1	Micah Kornfield
+     1	Paul Taylor
+     1	Yibo Cai
+     1	Yuan Zhou
+```
+
+## Changelog
+
+### New Features and Improvements
+
+* [ARROW-8501](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8501) - [Packaging][RPM] Upgrade devtoolset to 8 on CentOS 6
+* [ARROW-8549](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8549) - [R] Assorted post-0.17 release cleanups
+* [ARROW-8699](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8699) - [R] Fix automatic r\_to\_py conversion
+* [ARROW-8758](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8758) - [R] Updates for compatibility with dplyr 1.0
+* [ARROW-8786](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8786) - [Packaging][rpm] Use bundled zstd in the CentOS 8 build
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* [ARROW-8503](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8503) - [Packaging][deb] Can't build apache-arrow-archive-keyring for RC
+* [ARROW-8505](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8505) - [Release][C#] "sourcelink test" is failed by Apache.Arrow.AssemblyInfo.cs
+* [ARROW-8584](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8584) - [Packaging][C++] Protobuf link error in deb builds
+* [ARROW-8608](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8608) - [C++] Update vendored mpark/variant.h to  latest to fix NVCC compilation issues
+* [ARROW-8609](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8609) - [C++] ORC JNI bridge crashed on null arrow buffer
+* [ARROW-8641](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8641) - [Python] Regression in feather: no longer supports permutation in column selection
+* [ARROW-8657](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8657) - [Python][C++][Parquet] Forward compatibility issue from 0.16 to 0.17 when using version='2.0'
+* [ARROW-8684](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8684) - [Python] "SystemError: Bad call flags in \_PyMethodDef\_RawFastCallDict" in Python 3.7.7 on macOS when using pyarrow wheel
+* [ARROW-8694](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8694) - [Python][Parquet] parquet.read\_schema() fails when loading wide table created from Pandas DataFrame
+* [ARROW-8704](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8704) - [C++] Fix Parquet crash on invalid input (OSS-Fuzz)
+* [ARROW-8706](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8706) - [C++][Parquet] Tracking JIRA for PARQUET-1857 (unencrypted INT16\_MAX Parquet row group limit)
+* [ARROW-8728](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8728) - [C++]  Bitmap operation may cause buffer overflow
+* [ARROW-8741](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8741) - [Python][Packaging] Keep VS2015 with for the windows wheels
+* [ARROW-8750](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8750) - [Python] pyarrow.feather.write\_feather does not default to lz4 compression if it's available
+* [PARQUET-1857](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-1857) - [C++][Parquet] ParquetFileReader unable to read files with more than 32767 row groups
+
+
+[1]: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/arrow/arrow-0.17.1/
+[2]: https://bintray.com/apache/arrow/centos/0.17.1/
+[3]: https://bintray.com/apache/arrow/debian/0.17.1/
+[4]: https://bintray.com/apache/arrow/python/0.17.1/
+[5]: https://bintray.com/apache/arrow/ubuntu/0.17.1/
+[6]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/releases/tag/apache-arrow-0.17.1
diff --git a/_release/index.md b/_release/index.md
index 00300d6..0c2c1e9 100644
--- a/_release/index.md
+++ b/_release/index.md
@@ -26,48 +26,50 @@
 
 Navigate to the release page for downloads and the changelog.
 
-* [0.17.0 (20 April 2020)][1]
-* [0.16.0 (7 February 2020)][2]
-* [0.15.1 (1 November 2019)][3]
-* [0.15.0 (5 October 2019)][4]
-* [0.14.1 (22 July 2019)][5]
-* [0.14.0 (4 July 2019)][6]
-* [0.13.0 (1 April 2019)][7]
-* [0.12.0 (20 January 2019)][8]
-* [0.11.1 (19 October 2018)][9]
-* [0.11.0 (8 October 2018)][10]
-* [0.10.0 (6 August 2018)][11]
-* [0.9.0 (21 March 2018)][12]
-* [0.8.0 (18 December 2017)][13]
-* [0.7.1 (1 October 2017)][14]
-* [0.7.0 (17 September 2017)][15]
-* [0.6.0 (14 August 2017)][16]
-* [0.5.0 (23 July 2017)][17]
-* [0.4.1 (9 June 2017)][18]
-* [0.4.0 (22 May 2017)][19]
-* [0.3.0 (5 May 2017)][20]
-* [0.2.0 (18 February 2017)][21]
-* [0.1.0 (10 October 2016)][22]
+* [0.17.1 (18 May 2020)][1]
+* [0.17.0 (20 April 2020)][2]
+* [0.16.0 (7 February 2020)][3]
+* [0.15.1 (1 November 2019)][4]
+* [0.15.0 (5 October 2019)][5]
+* [0.14.1 (22 July 2019)][6]
+* [0.14.0 (4 July 2019)][7]
+* [0.13.0 (1 April 2019)][8]
+* [0.12.0 (20 January 2019)][9]
+* [0.11.1 (19 October 2018)][10]
+* [0.11.0 (8 October 2018)][11]
+* [0.10.0 (6 August 2018)][12]
+* [0.9.0 (21 March 2018)][13]
+* [0.8.0 (18 December 2017)][14]
+* [0.7.1 (1 October 2017)][15]
+* [0.7.0 (17 September 2017)][16]
+* [0.6.0 (14 August 2017)][17]
+* [0.5.0 (23 July 2017)][18]
+* [0.4.1 (9 June 2017)][19]
+* [0.4.0 (22 May 2017)][20]
+* [0.3.0 (5 May 2017)][21]
+* [0.2.0 (18 February 2017)][22]
+* [0.1.0 (10 October 2016)][23]
 
-[1]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.17.0.html
-[2]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.16.0.html
-[3]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.15.1.html
-[4]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.15.0.html
-[5]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.14.1.html
-[6]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.14.0.html
-[7]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.13.0.html
-[8]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.12.0.html
-[9]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.11.1.html
-[10]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.11.0.html
-[11]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.10.0.html
-[12]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.9.0.html
-[13]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.8.0.html
-[14]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.7.1.html
-[15]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.7.0.html
-[16]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.6.0.html
-[17]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.5.0.html
-[18]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.4.1.html
-[19]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.4.0.html
-[20]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.3.0.html
-[21]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.2.0.html
-[22]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.1.0.html
+[1]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.17.1.html
+[2]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.17.0.html
+[3]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.16.0.html
+[4]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.15.1.html
+[5]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.15.0.html
+[6]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.14.1.html
+[7]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.14.0.html
+[8]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.13.0.html
+[9]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.12.0.html
+[10]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.11.1.html
+[11]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.11.0.html
+[12]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.10.0.html
+[13]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.9.0.html
+[14]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.8.0.html
+[15]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.7.1.html
+[16]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.7.0.html
+[17]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.6.0.html
+[18]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.5.0.html
+[19]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.4.1.html
+[20]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.4.0.html
+[21]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.3.0.html
+[22]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.2.0.html
+[23]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/0.1.0.html