diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am
index 2811d5a65b..c9722094dd 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc/Makefile.am
@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ endif
 if HAVE_SPHINX_BUILD
 SUBDIRS += man arm
 endif HAVE_SPHINX_BUILD
+
+EXTRA_DIST = notes/
diff --git a/doc/arm/notes.rst b/doc/arm/notes.rst
index 31a916f474..a8d26508e8 100644
--- a/doc/arm/notes.rst
+++ b/doc/arm/notes.rst
@@ -125,6 +125,8 @@ Bug Fixes
    inadvertently treated as configuration errors when used at the
    ``options`` or ``view`` level. This has now been corrected. [GL #913]
 
+.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.17.0.rst
+
 .. _relnotes_license:
 
 License
diff --git a/doc/notes/notes-9.17.0.rst b/doc/notes/notes-9.17.0.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..18526d2e56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/notes/notes-9.17.0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+.. 
+   Copyright (C) Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+   
+   This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+   License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+   file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+   
+   See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional
+   information regarding copyright ownership.
+
+Notes for BIND 9.17.0
+---------------------
+
+Known Issues
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  UDP network ports used for listening can no longer simultaneously be
+   used for sending traffic. An example configuration which triggers
+   this issue would be one which uses the same ``address:port`` pair for
+   ``listen-on(-v6)`` statements as for ``notify-source(-v6)`` or
+   ``transfer-source(-v6)``. While this issue affects all operating
+   systems, it only triggers log messages (e.g. "unable to create
+   dispatch for reserved port") on some of them. There are currently no
+   plans to make such a combination of settings work again.
+
+New Features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  When a secondary server receives a large incremental zone transfer
+   (IXFR), it can have a negative impact on query performance while the
+   incremental changes are applied to the zone. To address this,
+   ``named`` can now limit the size of IXFR responses it sends in
+   response to zone transfer requests. If an IXFR response would be
+   larger than an AXFR of the entire zone, it will send an AXFR response
+   instead.
+
+   This behavior is controlled by the ``max-ixfr-ratio`` option - a
+   percentage value representing the ratio of IXFR size to the size of a
+   full zone transfer. The default is ``100%``. [GL #1515]
+
+-  A new RPZ option ``nsdname-wait-recurse`` controls whether
+   RPZ-NSDNAME rules should always be applied even if the names of
+   authoritative name servers for the query name need to be looked up
+   recurively first. The default is ``yes``. Setting it to ``no`` speeds
+   up initial responses by skipping RPZ-NSDNAME rules when name server
+   domain names are not yet in the cache. The names will be looked up in
+   the background and the rule will be applied for subsequent queries.
+   [GL #1138]
+
+Feature Changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  The system-provided POSIX Threads read-write lock implementation is
+   now used by default instead of the native BIND 9 implementation.
+   Please be aware that glibc versions 2.26 through 2.29 had a bug_ that
+   could cause BIND 9 to deadlock. A fix was released in glibc 2.30, and
+   most current Linux distributions have patched or updated glibc, with
+   the notable exception of Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) which is a work in
+   progress. If you are running on an affected operating system, compile
+   BIND 9 with ``--disable-pthread-rwlock`` until a fixed version of
+   glibc is available. [GL !3125]
+
+.. _bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23844
+
+-  The ``rndc nta -dump`` and ``rndc secroots`` commands now both
+   include ``validate-except`` entries when listing negative trust
+   anchors. These are indicated by the keyword ``permanent`` in place of
+   the expiry date. [GL #1532]
+
+Bug Fixes
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  Fixed re-signing issues with inline zones which resulted in records
+   being re-signed late or not at all.
diff --git a/util/copyrights b/util/copyrights
index 5c71e8dee8..b2dd3819da 100644
--- a/util/copyrights
+++ b/util/copyrights
@@ -1248,6 +1248,7 @@
 ./doc/misc/sort-options.pl			PERL	2007,2012,2016,2018,2019,2020
 ./doc/misc/static-stub.zoneopt			X	2018,2019,2020
 ./doc/misc/stub.zoneopt				X	2018,2019,2020
+./doc/notes/notes-9.17.0.rst			RST	2020
 ./docutil/HTML_COPYRIGHT			X	2001,2004,2016,2018,2019,2020
 ./docutil/MAN_COPYRIGHT				X	2001,2004,2016,2018,2019,2020
 ./docutil/patch-db2latex-duplicate-template-bug	X	2007,2018,2019,2020