Upstream released a new bug fixes only release targeting stable.

It contains multiple bug fixes, detailed in the NEWS file, which solve
actual reliability issues.
Future upstream releases with security updates will be based on this
release.

git diff debian/2.17.5-0+deb13u1..debian/bird2/trixie ':(exclude).gitlab-ci.yml' ':(exclude)gitlab/'

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d420203e4..52c28ba5c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+Version 2.17.6 (2026-07-30)
+  o BGP: Fix stack buffer overflow in Flowspec NLRI decoder
+  o BGP: Minor improvements in Flowspec parsing
+  o BGP: Fix minor issues with send hold timer
+  o Fix null byte handling in authentication keys
+  o Filter: Fix zero arg handling
+  o Update bird-users mailing list links
+
 Version 2.17.5 (2026-06-09)
   o BGP: Fix several issues in Flowspec handling
   o BMP: Fix off-by-one buffer overflow
diff --git a/README b/README
index 75a4281f1..9edadb033 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ around to see what's going to develop, feel free to subscribe to the BIRD
 users mailing list bird-users@network.cz, just send `subscribe' to
 bird-request@network.cz.