diff --git a/.changes/1.17.97.json b/.changes/1.17.97.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f0e6f6b200
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/1.17.97.json
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+[
+  {
+    "category": "``kendra``", 
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Amazon Kendra now supports the indexing of web documents for search through the web crawler.", 
+    "type": "api-change"
+  }, 
+  {
+    "category": "``sagemaker``", 
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Enable ml.g4dn instance types for SageMaker Batch Transform and SageMaker Processing", 
+    "type": "api-change"
+  }, 
+  {
+    "category": "``rds``", 
+    "description": "[``botocore``] This release enables Database Activity Streams for RDS Oracle", 
+    "type": "api-change"
+  }, 
+  {
+    "category": "``chime``", 
+    "description": "[``botocore``] This release adds a new API UpdateSipMediaApplicationCall, to update an in-progress call for SipMediaApplication.", 
+    "type": "api-change"
+  }
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index fc78f81505..4109afa549 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
+1.17.97
+=======
+
+* api-change:``kendra``: [``botocore``] Amazon Kendra now supports the indexing of web documents for search through the web crawler.
+* api-change:``sagemaker``: [``botocore``] Enable ml.g4dn instance types for SageMaker Batch Transform and SageMaker Processing
+* api-change:``rds``: [``botocore``] This release enables Database Activity Streams for RDS Oracle
+* api-change:``chime``: [``botocore``] This release adds a new API UpdateSipMediaApplicationCall, to update an in-progress call for SipMediaApplication.
+
+
 1.17.96
 =======
 
diff --git a/boto3/__init__.py b/boto3/__init__.py
index 1e148f81d3..4ac2058ae1 100644
--- a/boto3/__init__.py
+++ b/boto3/__init__.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 
 __author__ = 'Amazon Web Services'
-__version__ = '1.17.96'
+__version__ = '1.17.97'
 
 
 # The default Boto3 session; autoloaded when needed.
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index fa6af92f17..292281cbc3 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ universal = 1
 
 [metadata]
 requires_dist =
-    botocore>=1.20.96,<1.21.0
+    botocore>=1.20.97,<1.21.0
     jmespath>=0.7.1,<1.0.0
     s3transfer>=0.4.0,<0.5.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9f43a6b209..733c3742d2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 
 requires = [
-    'botocore>=1.20.96,<1.21.0',
+    'botocore>=1.20.97,<1.21.0',
     'jmespath>=0.7.1,<1.0.0',
     's3transfer>=0.4.0,<0.5.0'
 ]