Bump version to 2.1.7. Add release note and changelog.

HISTORY.rst

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+2.1.7 (2017-02-01)
+==================
+- Improved user management API endpoints.
+- Improved permissions API endpoints.
+- Improvements in the API tests of a few apps.
+- Addition Content type list API view to the common app.
+- Add API endpoints to the events app.
+- Enable the parser and validation fields of the metadata serializer.
+
 2.1.6 (2016-11-23)
 =================
 - Fix variable name typo in the rotation transformation class.

docs/releases/2.1.7.rst

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+===============================
+Mayan EDMS v2.1.7 release notes
+===============================
+
+Released: February 2, 2017
+
+What's new
+==========
+
+This is a bug-fix release and all users are encouraged to upgrade. The focus
+of this micro release was REST API improvement.
+
+Changes
+-------------
+
+- Improved user management API endpoints (initial work by @lokeshmanmode):
+
+  - Improved user creation API endpoint to allow specifying the group
+    membership.
+  - Improved user editing API endpoint to allow specifying the group
+    membership.
+
+- Improved permissions API endpoints (initial work by @lokeshmanmode):
+
+  - Add permission list API endpoint. This API endpoint lists all possible
+    permissions in the system.
+  - Improved role creation API endpoint to allow specifying the role's group
+    membership and role's permissions.
+  - Improved role editing API endpoint to allow specifying the role's group
+    membership and role's permissions.
+
+- Improvements in the API tests of a few apps.
+- Add content type list API view to the common app. Content type is required
+  when querying the events of an object, this view show list of content types
+  available.
+- Add event type list api view. This API view shows all the possible events
+  that are registered in the system.
+- Add event list API view. This view shows all the events that have taken
+  place in the system.
+- Add object event list API view. This view show all the events for a specific
+  object (document, etc). The content type of the object whose events are being
+  requested must be specified. The list of available content types is provided
+  now by the common app API.
+- The parser and validation fields of the metadata type model have been enable
+  in the metadata type API serializer.
+
+Removals
+--------
+* None
+
+Upgrading from a previous version
+---------------------------------
+
+Using PIP
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+Type in the console::
+
+    $ pip install -U mayan-edms
+
+the requirements will also be updated automatically.
+
+Using Git
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+If you installed Mayan EDMS by cloning the Git repository issue the commands::
+
+    $ git reset --hard HEAD
+    $ git pull
+
+otherwise download the compressed archived and uncompress it overriding the
+existing installation.
+
+Next upgrade/add the new requirements::
+
+    $ pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt
+
+Common steps
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Migrate existing database schema with::
+
+    $ mayan-edms.py performupgrade
+
+Add new static media::
+
+    $ mayan-edms.py collectstatic --noinput
+
+The upgrade procedure is now complete.
+
+
+Backward incompatible changes
+=============================
+
+* None
+
+Bugs fixed or issues closed
+===========================
+
+* None
+
+.. _PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mayan-edms/

docs/releases/index.rst

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 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
+   2.1.7
    2.1.6
    2.1.5
    2.1.4

mayan/__init__.py

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 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 __title__ = 'Mayan EDMS'
-__version__ = '2.1.6'
-__build__ = 0x020106
+__version__ = '2.1.7'
+__build__ = 0x020107
 __author__ = 'Roberto Rosario'
 __author_email__ = 'roberto.rosario@mayan-edms.com'
 __description__ = 'Free Open Source Electronic Document Management System'