v0.17.0
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This minor release removes support for python version 3.6 which has since
reached EoL.


Updates / New Features
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CI

* Updated CI unittests workflow to include codecov reporting.
  Reduced CodeCov report submission by skipping this step on scheduled runs.

* Update GitHub actions workflows with pinned python versions to use 3.7.

* Update code-cov action usage to use v3.

* Added properties file for use with SonarQube and SonarCloud.

* Added script and workflow to support release process as described in
  smqtk-core shared document.

* Added explicit provision of codecov repository token to github action.

* Add testing for py3.11.

* Use modern numpy for python 3.8 and beyond.

Data Elements

* Memory

  * Removed assertion that given data was specifically a bytes instance via
    superfluous ``memoryview`` construction.

* PostgreSQL

  * Removed outdated defaults for host and port.

* URL

  * Removed injection of ``http`` on construction to the beginning of a given
    URL if any schema was missing.

Dependencies

* Updated minimum required python version to 3.7 to follow python end of life.

* Updated development abstract dep versions to "*" since we do not currently
  require any specific versions.

Documentation

* Updated CONTRIBUTING.md to reference smqtk-core's CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Fixes
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CI

* Modified CI unittests workflow to run for PRs targeting branches that match
  the `release*` glob.

* Fixed new issues raised by updated version of ``mypy``.

Dependency Versions

* Updated the locked version of urllib3 to address a security vulnerability.

* Updated the developer dependency and locked version of ipython to address a
  security vulnerability.

* Removed `jedi = "^0.17.2"` requirement since recent `ipython = "^7.17.3"`
  update appropriately addresses the dependency.