diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 559cd156..458d5db8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
 # NVIDIA Container Toolkit Changelog
 
+## v1.17.0
+- Promote v1.17.0-rc.2 to v1.17.0
+- Fix bug when using just-in-time CDI spec generation
+- Check for valid paths in create-symlinks hook
+
 ## v1.17.0-rc.2
-- Fix bug in locating libcuda.so form ldcache
+- Fix bug in locating libcuda.so from ldcache
 - Fix bug in sorting of symlink chain
 - Remove unsupported print-ldcache command
 - Remove csv-filename support from create-symlinks
 
-## Changes in the Toolkit Container
+### Changes in the Toolkit Container
 - Fallback to `crio-status` if `crio status` does not work when configuring the crio runtime
 
 ## v1.17.0-rc.1
diff --git a/cmd/nvidia-cdi-hook/create-symlinks/create-symlinks_test.go b/cmd/nvidia-cdi-hook/create-symlinks/create-symlinks_test.go
index b9b23c0f..eb673382 100644
--- a/cmd/nvidia-cdi-hook/create-symlinks/create-symlinks_test.go
+++ b/cmd/nvidia-cdi-hook/create-symlinks/create-symlinks_test.go
@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ func TestCreateLink(t *testing.T) {
 			}
 
 			for _, expectedLink := range tc.expectedLinks {
-				path := strings.Replace(expectedLink.path, "{{ .containerRoot }}", containerRoot, -1)
-				path = strings.Replace(path, "{{ .hostRoot }}", hostRoot, -1)
+				path := strings.ReplaceAll(expectedLink.path, "{{ .containerRoot }}", containerRoot)
+				path = strings.ReplaceAll(path, "{{ .hostRoot }}", hostRoot)
 				if expectedLink.target != "" {
 					target, err := symlinks.Resolve(path)
 					require.ErrorIs(t, err, expectedLink.err)
diff --git a/versions.mk b/versions.mk
index 8dc1a41e..e302c18c 100644
--- a/versions.mk
+++ b/versions.mk
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 LIB_NAME := nvidia-container-toolkit
 LIB_VERSION := 1.17.0
-LIB_TAG := rc.2
+LIB_TAG :=
 
 # The package version is the combination of the library version and tag.
 # If the tag is specified the two components are joined with a tilde (~).