diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
index dc985f9725..0bcdfb7b9f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
@@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_distributor.so.1
    + librte_eal.so.5
    + librte_ethdev.so.7
+   + librte_eventdev.so.2
    + librte_gro.so.1
      librte_hash.so.2
      librte_ip_frag.so.1
diff --git a/lib/librte_eventdev/Makefile b/lib/librte_eventdev/Makefile
index 64165020a0..410578a14c 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eventdev/Makefile
+++ b/lib/librte_eventdev/Makefile
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ include $(RTE_SDK)/mk/rte.vars.mk
 LIB = librte_eventdev.a
 
 # library version
-LIBABIVER := 1
+LIBABIVER := 2
 
 # build flags
 CFLAGS += -O3