2016-10-18 Version 0.12.17 (Maintenance) Release

This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the
security release summary at
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2016-security-releases/
for details on patched vulnerabilities.

Notable changes:

* c-ares: fix for single-byte buffer overwrite, CVE-2016-5180, more
  information at https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html
  (Daniel Stenberg)

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9147

CHANGELOG.md

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+<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V012.md#0.12.16">0.12.16</a><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V012.md#0.12.15">0.12.15</a><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V012.md#0.12.14">0.12.14</a><br/>
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doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V012.md

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 [Node.js Long Term Support Plan](https://github.com/nodejs/LTS) and
 will be maintained until December 31st, 2016.
 
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+## 2016-10-18, Version 0.12.17 (Maintenance), @rvagg
+
+This is a security release. All Node.js users should consult the security release summary at https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2016-security-releases/ for details on patched vulnerabilities.
+
+### Notable changes:
+
+* c-ares: fix for single-byte buffer overwrite, CVE-2016-5180, more information at https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html (Daniel Stenberg)
+
+### Commits:
+
+* [c5b095ecf8] - deps: avoid single-byte buffer overwrite (Daniel Stenberg) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8849
+
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 ## 2016-09-27, Version 0.12.16 (Maintenance), @rvagg