2016-10-18 Version 0.12.17 (Maintenance) Release

This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the
security release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2016-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.

Notable changes:

* c-ares: fix for single-byte buffer overwrite, CVE-2016-5180, more
  information at https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html
  (Daniel Stenberg)

PR-URL: #9147

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+2016-10-18, Version 0.12.17 (Maintenance), @rvagg
+
+This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the security release summary at https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2016-security-releases/ for details on patched vulnerabilities.
+
+Notable changes:
+
+* c-ares: fix for single-byte buffer overwrite, CVE-2016-5180, more information at https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html (Daniel Stenberg)
+
+Commits:
+
+* [c5b095ecf8] - deps: avoid single-byte buffer overwrite (Daniel Stenberg) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8849
+
 2016-09-27, Version 0.12.16 (Maintenance), @rvagg
 
 This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the security release summary at https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/ for details on patched vulnerabilities.

src/node_version.h

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 #define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 12
 #define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 17
 
-#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
+#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
 
 #ifndef NODE_STRINGIFY
 #define NODE_STRINGIFY(n) NODE_STRINGIFY_HELPER(n)