Prep for 2.17.3

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.17.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.17.3</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-dataformats-binary</artifactId>

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Active maintainers:
 
 - No changes since 2.17
 
-2.17.3 (not yet released)
+2.17.3 (01-Nov-2024)
 
 #506: (protobuf) Cannot deserialize `UUID` values
  (reported by @uniquonil)