diff --git a/.scripts/build_steps.sh b/.scripts/build_steps.sh
index 550b9cc..b51cc49 100755
--- a/.scripts/build_steps.sh
+++ b/.scripts/build_steps.sh
@@ -43,13 +43,19 @@ setup_conda_rc "${FEEDSTOCK_ROOT}" "${RECIPE_ROOT}" "${CONFIG_FILE}"
 
 source run_conda_forge_build_setup
 
+(
+# Due to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1537564 old versions of rpm
+# are drastically slowed down when the number of file descriptors is very high.
+# This can be visible during a `yum install` step of a feedstock build.
+# => Set a lower limit in a subshell for the `yum install`s only.
+ulimit -n 1024
 
 # Install the yum requirements defined canonically in the
 # "recipe/yum_requirements.txt" file. After updating that file,
 # run "conda smithy rerender" and this line will be updated
 # automatically.
 /usr/bin/sudo -n yum install -y xorg-x11-server-Xorg
-
+)
 
 # make the build number clobber
 make_build_number "${FEEDSTOCK_ROOT}" "${RECIPE_ROOT}" "${CONFIG_FILE}"
@@ -77,7 +83,6 @@ else
         --suppress-variables ${EXTRA_CB_OPTIONS:-} \
         --clobber-file "${CI_SUPPORT}/clobber_${CONFIG}.yaml" \
         --extra-meta flow_run_id="${flow_run_id:-}" remote_url="${remote_url:-}" sha="${sha:-}"
-
     ( startgroup "Inspecting artifacts" ) 2> /dev/null
 
     # inspect_artifacts was only added in conda-forge-ci-setup 4.6.0
diff --git a/build-locally.py b/build-locally.py
index e0d408d..6788aea 100755
--- a/build-locally.py
+++ b/build-locally.py
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#!/bin/sh
+"""exec" "python3" "$0" "$@" #"""  # fmt: off # fmt: on
 #
 # This file has been generated by conda-smithy in order to build the recipe
 # locally.
 #
-import os
+# The line above this comment is a bash / sh / zsh guard
+# to stop people from running it with the wrong interpreter
 import glob
+import os
+import platform
 import subprocess
 from argparse import ArgumentParser
-import platform
 
 
 def setup_environment(ns):
diff --git a/recipe/meta.yaml b/recipe/meta.yaml
index 3545c3a..f3c5c6b 100644
--- a/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{% set version = "5.16.2" %}
+{% set version = "5.17.0" %}
 
 package:
   name: pymc-suite  # https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/3933
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ package:
 
 source:
   url: https://pypi.io/packages/source/p/pymc/pymc-{{ version }}.tar.gz
-  sha256: c1864a7bbafc38d495be56ff7f2e69d79087fc19cabebdc5b05688a3c98d8b12
+  sha256: 3b7810f770c7aeab3087e289fadc97252ad423f3aa3f42b5715648f13df2aab7
 
 build:
   number: 0
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ outputs:
     requirements:
       host:
         - python >=3.10
+        - setuptools
+        - versioneer ==0.29
         - pip
       run:
         - python >=3.10