I guess the letter at the end of the version string indicates a Pre-Release, so as to avoid confusion the hotfix will be bumped to 0.17.3. And in another PR the master with the latest changes (since the hotfix was selective backports and some changes did occur from 0.17.1 to 10.17.2 which are currently not needed) will be bumped to 0.18.0
I guess the letter at the end of the version string indicates a Pre-Release, so as to avoid confusion the hotfix will be bumped to 0.17.3. And in another PR the
masterwith the latest changes (since the hotfix was selective backports and some changes did occur from 0.17.1 to 10.17.2 which are currently not needed) will be bumped to 0.18.0