Release 0.17.0: local-first stores and bounded caches

local_first_store(path, api_url) — commits land on local disk
instantly and journal with their exact new-blob lists; swarmfs 0.5.0's
background syncer pushes and confirms peer-to-peer; sync() is the
certainty barrier; local disk is a budgeted working set (unpushed
pinned, confirmed evictable, evicted reads heal by verified re-fetch).
Plus R0: CachedBytesStore (the value-blob cache) and the bounded
trie-node cache. Full details in CHANGELOG 0.17.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: petfold

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ All notable changes to this project are documented here. The format is based on
 [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/), and this project adheres to
 [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
-## [Unreleased]
+## [0.17.0] — 2026-08-04
 
 ### Added
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "recordstore"
-version = "0.16.0"
+version = "0.17.0"
 description = "Versioned key-record store over a content-addressed bytes store (memory or Ethereum Swarm/Bee backends)"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ fsspec = ["fsspec"]
 # 0.4.0 is the floor: earlier swarmfs has no StampManager.list_batches or
 # .buckets, so the inspection path would fail at runtime instead of install.
 stamps = ["swarmfs>=0.4.0"]
-# local_first_store: needs swarmfs's localstore/localsync modules (0.5+,
-# unreleased at the time of writing — install swarmfs from source until then)
+# local_first_store: needs swarmfs's localstore/localsync modules (0.5.0+)
 local = ["swarmfs>=0.5.0"]
 swarm-addressing = ["swarmfs[feeds]"]
 feeds = ["swarm-bee"]