Prepare for 2.17.3 release

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <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.core</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ a pure JSON library.
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.17.3 (not yet released):
+2.17.3 (01-Nov-2024)
 
 #1331: Update to FastDoubleParser v1.0.1 to fix `BigDecimal` decoding problem
  (contributed by @pjfanning)