This release is porting master/main's build-system back to v1.16. The necessary code changes have been minimized. However, since some non-trivial code changes are required, the release is labeled v1.17. The release became necessary due to the aging 1.16-line of code and new compilers emerged since then. For example, issues like #562 are among similar issues when using, e.g., GNU GCC 10.x or 11.x....