Merge release/1.17 into release/2.2

[mongodb-drivers-pr-bot]

Merge new changes from release/1.17 into release/2.2.

Commits

• Retry Markdown link checks on HTTP 429 (v1) (Retry Markdown link checks on HTTP 429 (v1) #2186): 106cff3

Resolving conflicts

To resolve any conflicts, check out the temporary branch and run the following command:

git merge release/2.2

Ignoring changes

To ignore from the remote branch, first reset the temporary branch to release/2.2 and manually merge using the `ours` merge strategy:

git reset --hard release/2.2
git merge --strategy=ours release/1.17

Then, push the temporary branch to upate the pull request.

[alcaeus]

Closing in favour of #2192.

[alcaeus]

Closing; ignoring all commits from 1.17 in #2193.