diff --git a/doc/src/Manual.txt b/doc/src/Manual.txt
index 3e7c2fb20797ad6179a433c2a7dbd2fc1dbc36a0..b422d6ee16fc7670159d2ef3679677ba02c8b651 100644
--- a/doc/src/Manual.txt
+++ b/doc/src/Manual.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!-- HTML_ONLY -->
 <HEAD>
 <TITLE>LAMMPS Users Manual</TITLE>
-<META NAME="docnumber" CONTENT="9 Jan 2017 version">
+<META NAME="docnumber" CONTENT="17 Jan 2017 version">
 <META NAME="author" CONTENT="http://lammps.sandia.gov - Sandia National Laboratories">
 <META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright (2003) Sandia Corporation.  This software and manual is distributed under the GNU General Public License.">
 </HEAD>
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 <H1></H1>
 
 LAMMPS Documentation :c,h3
-9 Jan 2017 version :c,h4
+17 Jan 2017 version :c,h4
 
 Version info: :h4
 
diff --git a/doc/src/Section_errors.txt b/doc/src/Section_errors.txt
index d3ae9d94b75c7446cfdac8f7d5e1ce9e86aa8595..36c122bd136c0ee15cca3bba0c457480b5eb6704 100644
--- a/doc/src/Section_errors.txt
+++ b/doc/src/Section_errors.txt
@@ -55,12 +55,13 @@ LAMMPS errors are detected at setup time; others like a bond
 stretching too far may not occur until the middle of a run.
 
 LAMMPS tries to flag errors and print informative error messages so
-you can fix the problem.  Of course, LAMMPS cannot figure out your
-physics or numerical mistakes, like choosing too big a timestep,
-specifying erroneous force field coefficients, or putting 2 atoms on
-top of each other!  If you run into errors that LAMMPS doesn't catch
-that you think it should flag, please send an email to the
-"developers"_http://lammps.sandia.gov/authors.html.
+you can fix the problem.  For most errors it will also print the last
+input script command that it was processing.  Of course, LAMMPS cannot
+figure out your physics or numerical mistakes, like choosing too big a
+timestep, specifying erroneous force field coefficients, or putting 2
+atoms on top of each other!  If you run into errors that LAMMPS
+doesn't catch that you think it should flag, please send an email to
+the "developers"_http://lammps.sandia.gov/authors.html.
 
 If you get an error message about an invalid command in your input
 script, you can determine what command is causing the problem by
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index f09421aa14ef31b3ce1352316a347ba12dcb4fac..9a5686a75feff675eebe49b2987cf310b6df1be6 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define LAMMPS_VERSION "9 Jan 2017"
+#define LAMMPS_VERSION "17 Jan 2017"