Merge branch '2.17'

Author: cowtowncoder

Diff for: .github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ jobs:
       run: ./mvnw -B -q -ff -ntp test
     - name: Publish code coverage
       if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' && matrix.java_version == '8'
-      uses: codecov/codecov-action@e0b68c6749509c5f83f984dd99a76a1c1a231044 # v4.0.1
+      uses: codecov/codecov-action@0cfda1dd0a4ad9efc75517f399d859cd1ea4ced1 # v4.0.2
       with:
         token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
         file: ./target/site/jacoco/jacoco.xml

Diff for: .github/workflows/scorecard.yml

@@ -60,6 +60,6 @@ jobs:
 
       # Upload the results to GitHub's code scanning dashboard.
       - name: "Upload to code-scanning"
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@e8893c57a1f3a2b659b6b55564fdfdbbd2982911 # v3.24.0
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@47b3d888fe66b639e431abf22ebca059152f1eea # v3.24.5
         with:
           sarif_file: results.sarif

Diff for: release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ a pure JSON library.
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.17.0 (not yet released)
+2.17.0-rc1 (26-Feb-2024)
 
 #507: Add `JsonWriteFeature.ESCAPE_FORWARD_SLASHES` to allow escaping of '/' for
   String values