diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d4f3eb6..a81b2d6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ Per Keep a Changelog there are 6 main categories of changes:
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Bump wgpu version to 0.17. @cwfitzgerald
+
 ## v0.23.0
 
 - Bump imgui version to 0.11.0. @benmkw
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4967e84..b06a32e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ bytemuck = "1"
 imgui = "0.11"
 log = "0.4"
 smallvec = "1"
-wgpu = "0.16"
+wgpu = "0.17"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 bytemuck = { version = "1.13", features = ["derive"] }
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9fcde24..46f635b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ cargo run --release --example hello-world
 
 # Status
 
-Supports `wgpu` `0.16` and imgui `0.11`. `winit-0.27` is used with the examples.
+Supports `wgpu` `0.17` and imgui `0.11`. `winit-0.27` is used with the examples.
 
 Contributions are very welcome.