make patch release (#2323)

Author: OriolAbril

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,18 +1,12 @@
 # Change Log
 
-## v0.x.x Unreleased
-
-### New features
+## v0.17.1 (2024 Mar 13)
 
 ### Maintenance and fixes
 - Fix deprecations introduced in latest pandas and xarray versions, and prepare for numpy 2.0 ones ([2315](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2315)))
 - Refactor ECDF code ([2311](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2311))
 - Fix `plot_forest` when Numba is installed ([2319](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2319))
 
-### Deprecation
-
-### Documentation
-
 ## v0.17.0 (2023 Dec 22)
 
 ### New features

arviz/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # pylint: disable=wildcard-import,invalid-name,wrong-import-position
 """ArviZ is a library for exploratory analysis of Bayesian models."""
-__version__ = "0.18.0.dev0"
+__version__ = "0.17.1"
 
 import logging
 import os

setup.py

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def get_version():
     long_description=get_long_description(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     include_package_data=True,
-    python_requires=">=3.10",
+    python_requires=">=3.9",
     classifiers=[
         "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
         "Framework :: Matplotlib",
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ def get_version():
         "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
         "Programming Language :: Python",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",