Merge pull request #4133 from conan-io/release/2.17

Sync develop2

Author: czoido

changelog.rst

@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ Changelog
 
 For a more detailed description of the major changes that Conan 2 brings, compared with Conan 1.X, please read :ref:`whatsnew`
 
+2.17.1 (23-Jun-2025)
+--------------------
+
+- Bugfix: add support for ``Git()`` for git<2.36, for operations that check if a commit exists in a remote. `#18501 <https://github.com/conan-io/conan/pull/18501>`_
+
 2.17.0 (28-May-2025)
 --------------------
 

conf.py

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = "2.17"
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = u'2.17.0'
+release = u'2.17.1'
 
 dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
 if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(dir_path, "versions.json")):

reference/tools/files/patches.rst

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Usage:
 
     from conan.tools.files import apply_conandata_patches
 
-    def build(self):
+    def source(self):
         apply_conandata_patches(self)