diff --git a/packaging/debian/buildppa.sh b/packaging/debian/buildppa.sh
index 86d264ef..b43b2c1a 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/buildppa.sh
+++ b/packaging/debian/buildppa.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # For the kio: (and kdesdk?)
 # sudo apt-get install pkg-kde-tools  cdbs
 
-RCLVERS=1.17.2
+RCLVERS=1.17.3
 LENSVERS=1.17.2.2697
 PPAVERS=1
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ read rep
 ####### QT4
 debdir=debianrclqt4
 series4="lucid maverick natty oneiric precise"
-series4="lucid maverick natty oneiric"
+series4="lucid maverick natty oneiric precise"
 
 for series in $series4 ; do
   rm -rf recoll-${RCLVERS}/debian
diff --git a/packaging/debian/debianrclqt4/changelog b/packaging/debian/debianrclqt4/changelog
index 176e5fb8..c84cd9d1 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/debianrclqt4/changelog
+++ b/packaging/debian/debianrclqt4/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+recoll (1.17.3-1~ppaPPAVERS~SERIES1) SERIES; urgency=low
+  * Release 1.17.3 fixes a nasty email indexing crash
+ -- Jean-Francois Dockes <jf@dockes.org>  Thu, 23 May 2012 16:22:00 +0200
+
 recoll (1.17.2-1~ppaPPAVERS~SERIES1) SERIES; urgency=low
   * Release 1.17.2 
  -- Jean-Francois Dockes <jf@dockes.org>  Thu, 17 May 2012 09:27:00 +0200
diff --git a/website/BUGS.html b/website/BUGS.html
index 7e27005f..e8e11bbc 100644
--- a/website/BUGS.html
+++ b/website/BUGS.html
@@ -35,20 +35,10 @@
           supposedly fixed in later versions. Bugs listed in the
           topmost section may also exist in older versions.</i></p>
 
-      <h2><a name="b_latest">recoll 1.17.2</a></h2> 
-
-        <li>It appears that recollindex will sometimes crash while
-          indexing mail files. There are 2 separate reports about
-          this, and no resolution for now. This is not specific to
-          1.17 as one of the reports is for 1.16. Refs:
-          <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=819408">Fedora</a>
-          (maildir, processing an attachment), 
-          <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/recoll/+bug/994228">Ubuntu</a>: apparently (no stack trace): 
-          <em>Recoll was indexing files in .thunderbird when the crash
-            occurred. It seemed to be indexing the INBOX file on
-            disk. </em> 
-        </li>
+      
+      <h2><a name="b_latest">recoll 1.17.3</a></h2> 
 
+      <ul>
         <li>Text inside malformed HTML files (appearing before a &lt;body&gt;
           tag, or after a second one, or after a &lt;/body&gt; tag is
           not indexed. At it would be displayed by current browsers,
@@ -73,6 +63,25 @@
           startup. This is fixed by removing (back it up just in case)
           ~/.config/Recoll.org/recoll.conf, the QSettings storage for
           recoll.</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <h2><a name="b_1_17_2">recoll 1.17.2</a></h2> 
+
+      <ul>
+        <li>It appears that recollindex will sometimes crash while
+          indexing mail files. There are 2 separate reports about
+          this, and no resolution for now. This is not specific to
+          1.17 as one of the reports is for 1.16. Refs:
+          <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=819408">Fedora</a>
+          (maildir, processing an attachment), 
+          <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/recoll/+bug/994228">Ubuntu</a>: apparently (no stack trace): 
+          <em>Recoll was indexing files in .thunderbird when the crash
+            occurred. It seemed to be indexing the INBOX file on
+            disk. </em> 
+        </li>
+        <li>There were a few small glitches when paging the result
+          list, for example going back from the last page.</li>
+      </ul>
 
       <h2><a name="b_1_17_1">recoll 1.17.1</a></h2> 
 
diff --git a/website/download.html b/website/download.html
index 2316c6d4..cd502e77 100644
--- a/website/download.html
+++ b/website/download.html
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 
       <h2><a>General information</a></h2>
 
-      <p>The current version is 1.17.2. <a href="release-1.17.html">
+      <p>The current version is 1.17.3. <a href="release-1.17.html">
           Release notes</a>.</p>
 
       <p>The download page for Recoll 1.16 is
@@ -109,11 +109,11 @@
 
       <h2><a name="source">Source</a></h2>
 
-      <h3>Current release distribution: 1.17.2:</h3> 
+      <h3>Current release distribution: 1.17.3:</h3> 
       <!-- Attention: source packages must remain here, not in a
         subdirectory, because of all the places they're referred from
         (package watches) -->
-       <p><a href="recoll-1.17.2.tar.gz">recoll-1.17.2.tar.gz</a>.
+       <p><a href="recoll-1.17.3.tar.gz">recoll-1.17.3.tar.gz</a>.
        </p>
 
 <!--
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@
 
       <h3>Older recoll releases:</h3>
        <p>
+        <a href="recoll-1.17.2.tar.gz">1.17.2</a>.
         <a href="recoll-1.17.1.tar.gz">1.17.1</a>.
         <a href="recoll-1.16.2.tar.gz">1.16.2</a>.
         <a href="recoll-1.15.9.tar.gz">1.15.9</a>.
diff --git a/website/index.html.en b/website/index.html.en
index 464cc46f..db2cae06 100644
--- a/website/index.html.en
+++ b/website/index.html.en
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
       <p><span class="application">Recoll</span> is free, open source,
 	and licensed under the GPL. The current version is
-	<a href="download.html">1.17.2</a> 
+	<a href="download.html">1.17.3</a> 
 	(<a href="release-1.17.html">Release notes</a>).</p>
 
       <p class="remark">Recoll will index an <b>MS-Word</b> document stored as
@@ -70,9 +70,10 @@
       <h2>News</h2>
       <div class="news">
       <ul>
-        <li>2012-05-16: Release 1.17.2 fixes a few minor bugs in
-          1.17. See the <a href="release-1.17.html">Release
-            notes</a>. </li>
+        <li>2012-05-23: Release 1.17.3 mostly fixes an indexing crash that
+          sometimes occurred  while processing email. See the 
+          <a href="release-1.17.html">Release notes</a>. 
+        </li>
 
         <li>2012-04-07: we now have a Chinese user manual: Recoll现在有中文手册咯：
         <a href="http://stupidbeauty.com/Blog/2012/03/recoll%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B6%E6%89%8B%E5%86%8A%E7%BF%BB%E8%AD%AF%EF%BC%8Crecoll-user-manual-2/">
diff --git a/website/index.html.fr b/website/index.html.fr
index 7e605070..d2bf135b 100644
--- a/website/index.html.fr
+++ b/website/index.html.fr
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
       <p><span class="application">Recoll</span> est un logiciel libre
 	gratuit, dont le code source est disponible sous licence GPL.
 	La dernière version est 
-        <a class="important" href="download.html">1.17.2</a>
+        <a class="important" href="download.html">1.17.3</a>
 	(<a href="release-1.17.html">notes sur la version, en
 	anglais</a>)</p> 
 
@@ -101,9 +101,11 @@
       <h2>Nouvelles: </h2>
       <ul>
 
-        <li>2012-05-16: Sortie de la
-          version <a href="download.html#source">1.17.2</a>. Voir
-          les <a href="release-1.17.html">les notes</a>. 
+        <li>2012-05-24: Sortie de la
+          version <a href="download.html#source">1.17.3</a>. Voir
+          les <a href="release-1.17.html">les notes</a>. Cette version
+          corrige un "arrêt imprévu" de l'indexation qui se produisait
+          parfois en traitant certains messages mail.
         </li>
 
         <li>2010-11-20 : un petit script pour activer/cacher recoll sur un
diff --git a/website/release-1.17.html b/website/release-1.17.html
index 432a1720..08389bf9 100644
--- a/website/release-1.17.html
+++ b/website/release-1.17.html
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@
         <tt>unac_except_trans</tt>x in the manual configuration
         section. Also a new <tt>rcldia</tt> filter for Dia files.</p>
 
+      <p>1.17.3 fixes a nasty indexing bug in email processing
+        code. This was triggered most probably my messages containing
+        Microsoft mimehtml attachments, but possibly by other ones
+        too, and caused an indexing crash. Also fixes small glitches
+        in result list paging.</p>
+
       <p>Recoll 1.17.0 changes:</p>
 
       <ul>