Prepare for 2.17.0-rc1

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.17.0-rc1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.17.0-rc1</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-datatype-joda</artifactId>

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Project: jackson-datatype-joda
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.17.0 (not yet released)
+2.17.0-rc1 (26-Feb-2024)
 
--
+No changes since 2.16
 
 2.16.1 (24-Dec-2023)
 2.16.0 (15-Nov-2023)