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### Updating meta-information for bleeding-edge SNAPSHOT release.

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The JDBC driver now supports running multiple concurrent transactions on
the emulator using a single thread. The emulator still only supports one
read/write transaction per database at any time, but the JDBC driver works
around this by manually setting a Savepoint after each statement, and
using that Savepoint to automatically resume the transaction when it
has been aborted by the emulator.

…jdbc to v2.16.3 (#1575)

Stop auto-merging releases, even if they only contain dependency updates,
as it causes a too large number of releases to go out.

Support added for 'set max_commit_delay=<duration>' statement.
Setting a max_commit_delay can increase throughput of bulk updates,
as Spanner can batch more updates together, but at the expense of
higher latency for a single request.

Added support for an 'endpoint' connection URL property. This property can
be added to either the Connection URL or the Properties object that is used
to create a Connection, and can be used in combination with the
autoConfigEmulator connection property to connect to an emulator instance
that uses a randomly assigned port number.

See https://github.com/googleapis/java-spanner-jdbc/blob/main/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/jdbc/ConcurrentTransactionOnEmulatorTest.java
for an example on how to use this property.

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## [2.17.0](https://togithub.com/googleapis/java-spanner-jdbc/compare/v2.16.3...v2.17.0) (2024-04-21)


### Features

* Concurrent transactions on emulator ([#1578](https://togithub.com/googleapis/java-spanner-jdbc/issues/1578)) ([0234fb3](https://togithub.com/googleapis/java-spanner-jdbc/commit/0234fb3eb43695c657b845946e6d1122827dcae5))
* Support endpoint connection URL property ([#1582](https://togithub.com/googleapis/java-spanner-jdbc/issues/1582)) ([b589c96](https://togithub.com/googleapis/java-spanner-jdbc/commit/b589c96a3187390e9ffa576d1e0ee285e223c559))
* Support max_commit_delay ([#1581](https://togithub.com/googleapis/java-spanner-jdbc/issues/1581)) ([06e43c0](https://togithub.com/googleapis/java-spanner-jdbc/commit/06e43c05a65f25da9a4dbff73e2e75c1b5ec155b))
* Support statement tags in hints ([#1579](https://togithub.com/googleapis/java-spanner-jdbc/issues/1579)) ([0c3aec1](https://togithub.com/googleapis/java-spanner-jdbc/commit/0c3aec1a5eec212e9ecacc7bec7f2a8980c9af78))

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