diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 83e4b8da..519552de 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # specify the dependency versions (can be overriden with --build_arg)
-ARG quilc_version=1.16.0
-ARG quicklisp_version=2019-11-30
+ARG quilc_version=1.17.0
+ARG quicklisp_version=2020-02-18
 
 # use multi-stage builds to independently pull dependency versions
 FROM rigetti/quilc:$quilc_version as quilc
diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 38f6aa03..59c472ae 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-"1.15.4"
+"1.16.0"
diff --git a/qvm-app.asd b/qvm-app.asd
index 6b722dba..f9788950 100644
--- a/qvm-app.asd
+++ b/qvm-app.asd
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   :version (:read-file-form "VERSION.txt")
   :depends-on (
                ;; Quil parsing
-               (:version #:cl-quil "1.16.0")
+               (:version #:cl-quil "1.17.0")
                ;; Command line argument parsing
                #:command-line-arguments
                ;; ASDF-companion utility library
diff --git a/qvm.asd b/qvm.asd
index 4400999b..cce54da8 100644
--- a/qvm.asd
+++ b/qvm.asd
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
                ;; Finalizers and portable GC calls
                #:trivial-garbage
                ;; Quil parsing and analysis
-               (:version #:cl-quil "1.16.0")
+               (:version #:cl-quil "1.17.0")
                ;; Portable random number generator
                #:mt19937
                ;; For allocation info.