VOL-2224 Event Filtering Mechanism

         This commit contains changes related to migration from alarm
         filter to event filter.

         This commit also changes the version to 2.2.17

Change-Id: Ia4e26dabd37d657db1c9929e02d3827ef6a97622
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index be067c7..8c57128 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.2.18-dev
+2.2.18