diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
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--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.8.16
+Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.8.17
 
 Introduction
 ------------
@@ -7,60 +7,30 @@
 repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class
 web sites and other demanding content applications.
 
-Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.16 is a patch release that contains fixes and
+Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.17 is a patch release that contains fixes and
 improvements over Oak 1.8. Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.x releases are
 considered stable and targeted for production use.
 
 The Oak effort is a part of the Apache Jackrabbit project.
 Apache Jackrabbit is a project of the Apache Software Foundation.
 
-Changes in Oak 1.8.16
+Changes in Oak 1.8.17
 ---------------------
 
-Technical task
-
-    [OAK-8150] - RDB*Store: add Oracle specific documentation
-    [OAK-8396] - documentation steps missing to run sweep on RDBDocumentStore
-    [OAK-8445] - RDB documentation: minor fixes to documentation of "revisions" command
-    [OAK-8481] - RDB*Store: update postgresql jdbc driver reference to 42.2.6
-    [OAK-8483] - RDB*Store: update mysql jdbc driver reference to 8.0.16
-    [OAK-8485] - RDB*Store: update mssql jdbc driver reference to 7.2.2
-
 Bug
 
-    [OAK-8212] - ImporterImpl.importProperties prone to NPE
-    [OAK-8448] - VersionGC may get stuck at 60s scope
-    [OAK-8472] - Typo in oak-run console refresh command help
-    [OAK-8476] - RDBVersionGCSupport returns incorrect value for "oldest deleted document"
+    [OAK-8232] - Node#setPrimaryType(String) does not create child nodes defined as autoCreated
+    [OAK-8591] - Conflict exception on commit
 
-Improvement
-
-    [OAK-7251] - BinaryTextExtractor should not ignore parse exception - they should at least be logged at DEBUG in all cases
-    [OAK-8041] - IndexDefinitionBuilder should support facets and boost for property definitions
-    [OAK-8066] - Nodes with many direct children can lead to OOME when saving
-    [OAK-8114] - IndexDefinitionBuilder should be smarter when to reindex while updating a definition
-    [OAK-8451] - GCMonitor: fix compiler warnings and Javadoc
-    [OAK-8453] - Refactor VersionGarbageCollector to extract Recommendations class
-    [OAK-8526] - IndexDefinitionBuilder should support setting up index tags
-    [OAK-8559] - Backport OAK-8066 to 1.10 and 1.8
+Test
+ 
+    [OAK-8532] - Osgi based test to verify tika setup is working
+    [OAK-8535] - oak-it-osgi fails with encrypted credentials in settings.xml
 
 Task
-    
-    [OAK-7680] - oak-commons: upgrade to project default mockito version
-    [OAK-8424] - Update jar-plugin dependency to version 3.1.1
-    [OAK-8427] - reactor pom: let assembly-plugin version default to what parent specifies
-    [OAK-8428] - Update checkstyle-plugin dependency to version 3.1.0
-    [OAK-8430] - Update compiler-plugin dependency to version 3.8.1
-    [OAK-8431] - Update shade-plugin dependency to version 3.2.1
-    [OAK-8432] - Update war-plugin dependency to version 3.2.3
-    [OAK-8456] - Update httpclient/mime dependencies to 4.5.9
-    [OAK-8479] - update rat plugin to 0.13
-    [OAK-8486] - update jackson-databind dependency to 2.9.9.1
-    [OAK-8501] - oak-examples/webapp: update htmlunit dependency to 2.35.0
-    [OAK-8502] - oak-examples/standalone: update spring boot dependency to 1.5.21
-    [OAK-8503] - oak-benchmarks: update commons-compress dependency to 1.18
-    [OAK-8504] - oak-run: update groovy dependency to 2.4.17
-    [OAK-8560] - Update jackson-databind dependency to 2.9.9.3
+        
+    [OAK-8449] - LastRev check/fix in DocumentNodeStore MBean
+    [OAK-8594] - Update Oak 1.8 to Jackrabbit 2.16.5