Version 1.17.1

This release contains a small number of important bug fixes and regressions — many thanks to @ianthomas23, @maximlt, @philippjfr, and @hoxbro for their contributions.

Enhancements:

• Improve support for hv.NdOverlay and hv.Overlay in downsample1d (#5856)
• Improve legend support for hv.Layout and add documentation for sync_legends and show_legends (#5852)

Bug fixes:

• RangeToolLink now correctly reset to the predefined boundsx and boundsy values (#5848)
• Fix regressions with Bokeh's axis (#5838, #5850, #5851)

Compatibility:

• Pin Param version for Bokeh 2 (#5844)
• Explicitly clear Matplotlib figure to remove warning about auto-removal of overlapping axes for Matplotlib 3.8 (#5857)

Documentation:

• Set autohide example to True as in the hook (#5832)

Maintenance:

• Add OpenCollective sponsor link on the repo page (#5839)
• Update Ruff in pre-commit and report panel communication in hv.show_versions (#5853)
• Cleanup imports (#5846)