Bump version and update CHANGELOG.md

CHANGELOG.md

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+# v0.17.1 (2021-12-23)
+
+### Spack Bugfixes
+* Allow locks to work under high contention (#27846)
+* Improve errors messages from clingo (#27707 #27970)
+* Respect package permissions for sbang (#25764)
+* Fix --enable-locks behavior (#24675)
+* Fix log-format reporter ignoring install errors (#25961)
+* Fix overloaded argparse keys (#27379)
+* Allow style commands to run with targets other than "develop" (#27472)
+* Log lock messages to debug level, instead of verbose level (#27408)
+* Handle invalid unicode while logging (#21447)
+* spack audit: fix API calls to variants (#27713)
+* Provide meaningful message for empty environment installs (#28031)
+* Added opensuse leap containers to spack containerize (#27837)
+* Revert "patches: make re-applied patches idempotent" (#27625)
+* MANPATH can use system defaults (#21682)
+* Add "setdefault" subcommand to `spack module tcl` (#14686)
+* Regenerate views when specs already installed (#28113)
+
+### Package bugfixes
+* Fix external package detection for OpenMPI (#27255)
+* Update the UPC++ package to 2021.9.0 (#26996)
+* Added py-vermin v1.3.2 (#28072)
+
 # v0.17.0 (2021-11-05)
 
 `v0.17.0` is a major feature release.

lib/spack/spack/__init__.py

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 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
 
 #: major, minor, patch version for Spack, in a tuple
-spack_version_info = (0, 17, 0)
+spack_version_info = (0, 17, 1)
 
 #: String containing Spack version joined with .'s
 spack_version = '.'.join(str(v) for v in spack_version_info)