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 ---
 
+## [0.17.1] - unreleased
+
+Development version. Opens the 0.17.x line — the first release built entirely against
+published 0.17.0 hosts (Hackage / PyPI / Maven Central), with the `hostOverrides` shims
+that were needed while 0.16.1 lacked the effect type and I/O primitives removed.
+
+### New features
+
+- **Generated term-reference DSLs** ([#467](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/467)):
+  kernel *term* modules now project generated DSL surfaces, completing the story begun with
+  type-module DSLs and the generated primitive wrappers (`hydra.dsl.lib.*`, 0.17.0). A
+  signature read-back in the DSL pass reuses the main pass's inference, and a demand-curated
+  set of 19 kernel term modules (plus the json/test/extract modules) emits one typed,
+  rename-safe reference per definition into every target language — e.g. Haskell
+  `Hydra.Dsl.Strip.deannotateType`, Java `hydra.dsl.Strip.deannotateType(...)`, Python
+  `hydra.dsl.strip.deannotate_type(...)`. The Java and Python coder sources were pivoted onto
+  the generated references, retiring ~700 stringly-typed inline `var("hydra....")` references
+  and shrinking Python's hand registry to the non-generatable remainder (byte-identical
+  generated output before and after). Follow-ups:
+  [#555](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/555) (typed references to derived
+  encode/decode/show functions via `TypedName`),
+  [#556](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/556) (non-kernel packages).
+- **Package validation** ([#574](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/574),
+  [#575](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/575)): a translingual `hydra.validate.*`
+  framework carries per-package `ValidationProfile`s (error/warning rules, error/warning caps) and a
+  catalog of checks — undeclared-package-dependency detection (now a fatal gate, #574),
+  definition-name convention (PascalCase), definition ordering, documentation completeness, and
+  conflicting-variant-name detection — layered on the existing core term/type well-formedness rules.
+  A kernel-strict / others-relaxed policy keeps `/sync` green fleet-wide while the documentation
+  backlog drains. See the new [Validation](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/wiki/Validation)
+  wiki page for the full per-package constraint specification.
+- **DSL-authoring registration guards** ([#554](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/554)):
+  fail-fast authoring-time validation for the host-native DSL sources — every DSL-authoring module in
+  Java/`hydra-jvm`, Python, and Scala now asserts its definitions are fully registered
+  (`Defs.checkComplete` / `check_complete`), backed by a Haskell kernel-source registration-completeness
+  scanner, so a definition added to a source file but omitted from its `definitions` list fails loudly
+  instead of silently vanishing from the generated output.
+- **`hydra-build` package** ([#546](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/546),
+  [#529](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/529),
+  [#530](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/530)): the build-orchestration logic that had
+  lived only in host scripts is now translingual Hydra. Pure module-list utilities became
+  `hydra.build.modules` (#529) and the orphan-reconcile decision became `hydra.build.reconcile` (#530),
+  each with a translingual test suite; the `hydra.build.*` modules were then extracted into a dedicated
+  `hydra-build` package (#546), separate from the kernel.
+- **Metadata sidecar + content/version-addressed freshness**
+  ([#415](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/415)): dist manifests now carry a
+  `moduleFormatVersion` field, and the generator's freshness basis is content/version-addressed — the
+  groundwork for reproducible, cache-correct incremental generation.
+- **Structured generation-provenance record**
+  ([#523](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/523)): each generation run now records a
+  structured `Generation` provenance entry (digest v2), replacing the ad-hoc shell threading of
+  generation metadata.
+- **Worker + issue hierarchy** ([#557](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/557)): a
+  principled agent/worker framework — roles and parentage mirroring the GitHub issue tree, a
+  cross-worktree message transport with a verify-after-copy protocol, a blocking-aware design-question
+  (`decisions/`) channel, an issue-proposal queue with the `/issues` command, an autonomy-dial banner,
+  and cross-machine staging coordination. Contributor-facing process only; no change to generated code.
+
+### API and usability
+
+- **DSL usability passes** ([#430](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/430),
+  [#553](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/553)): reviewed the host-native Java, Python,
+  and Scala DSL surfaces for ergonomics and cross-host parity (documented def shapes, added a Scala
+  projection helper), bringing the three authoring dialects into closer alignment.
+
+### Fixed
+
+Bug fixes landed this cycle, grouped by area (see each issue for detail):
+
+- **TypeScript** — reactivated `hydra.lib.*` primitive tests surfaced encoder gaps: lazy show-calling
+  let bindings and compact bare-string `LiteralType` expansion in the test converter
+  ([#564](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/564)),
+  `binaryToBytes` registration + base64 binary decode in `decodeUtf8`
+  ([#561](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/561)),
+  `hydra.test.build.*` emission after the #546 split
+  ([#570](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/570)), and `HYDRA_DEFAULT_IMPLS` support in
+  the test runner ([#536](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/536)).
+- **Tests and CI** — restored the default-primitive-implementation testing solution
+  ([#388](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/388),
+  [#549](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/549)), reactivated previously-ignored kernel
+  test cases ([#513](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/513),
+  [#550](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/550)), wired the regression harnesses into CI
+  and split them out of the monolithic Haskell job for timeout headroom
+  ([#535](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/535),
+  [#563](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/563)), added Scala/Go/Lisp
+  self-containment gates to `verify-distribution.sh`
+  ([#537](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/537)), a manifest-JSON-tracked CI check
+  ([#541](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/541)), a per-package test-digest freshness
+  fix ([#551](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/551)), overlay-file restoration in
+  `test-stale-output-prune.sh` ([#558](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/558)), and a
+  sync-freshness fingerprint that now sees host-native DSL sources
+  ([#562](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/562)).
+- **Kernel and coders** — Java binary-literal signed-byte emission
+  ([#528](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/528)), `hydra.json.Decode.fromJson`
+  parametric-type (Application/Forall) support
+  ([#531](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/531)), stale 2-param `Coder` shape in
+  Java/Scala test bootstrap ([#552](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/552)), and a
+  kernel dead-code/TODO cleanup ([#538](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/538)).
+- **Lib and build** — `hydra.lib.files` copy/removeDirectory/status overlays across all nine hosts
+  ([#525](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/525)), `hydra.build.*` regeneration into the
+  Lisp dialects ([#544](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/544)), Scheme maps
+  last-writer-wins in `union` ([#545](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/545)),
+  standalone-kernel SHA dependency ([#542](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/542)),
+  the lexicon's empty Types section ([#539](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/539)), and
+  a duplicated generated-file header in `generate-head-haskell-build.py`
+  ([#540](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/540)).
+
+- **TypeScript overlay-import rewrite** ([#565](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/565)):
+  the TypeScript coder's lib overlay-import rewrite no longer captures `hydra.lib.defaults`, which is a
+  generated (not overlaid) module; excluding it fixes spurious import references in generated TypeScript.
+
+- **Lexicon generation** (`bin/regenerate-lexicon.sh`): the generator had been failing
+  silently since the encoder/decoder modules moved to in-memory synthesis
+  ([#448](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/448)) — the script masked the
+  failure and left a stale `docs/hydra-lexicon.txt` missing the four effectful primitive
+  libraries (`hydra.lib.{effects,files,system,text}`). The synthesized coder modules are
+  now included in the lexicon universe, the script fails loudly, and the regenerated
+  lexicon covers all 267 primitives across 17 library modules.
+- **`bin/prepare-release.sh`**: the non-blocking Java quality check invoked Gradle
+  subprojects (`:hydra-rdf4j:test` etc.) that were removed in
+  [#511](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/511), so it always warned without
+  checking anything; it now runs the `dist/java/hydra-pg` package tests (the current home
+  of the former binding tests).
+- **`.gitignore`**: the ignore rules for the overlaid hand-written Haskell runtime still
+  named pre-[#501](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/501) paths, so 41
+  duplicate copies under `dist/haskell/` had become tracked; the rules now match the
+  `Hydra/Overlay/` location and the duplicates are untracked.
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Corrected the 0.17.0 Maven coordinates throughout (Java artifacts publish under group
+  `net.fortytwo.hydra.java`, Scala under `net.fortytwo.hydra.scala`,
+  [#519](https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra/issues/519)); added the npm and Scala
+  release channels to the README; added TypeScript/Scala/Lisp sections to Getting started;
+  repointed stale pre-#418/#501 DSL paths in the architecture docs; added GitHub issue and
+  PR templates.
+
+---
+
 ## [0.17.0] - 2026-07-01
 
 Major themes: first-class support for effects and I/O in the kernel, TypeScript and
diff --git a/hydra-jvm.cabal b/hydra-jvm.cabal
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@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 cabal-version: 1.12
 
--- This file has been generated from package.yaml by hpack version 0.39.1.
+-- This file has been generated from package.yaml by hpack version 0.38.1.
 --
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 
 name:           hydra-jvm
-version:        0.17.0
+version:        0.17.1
 synopsis:       Shared JVM support for Hydra's Java, Scala, and Clojure coders
 description:    Hydra is an implementation of the LambdaGraph data model, which takes advantage of an isomorphism between labeled hypergraphs and typed lambda calculus: in Hydra, "graphs are programs, and programs are graphs". Common JVM support for Hydra (shared by hydra-java, hydra-scala, hydra-clojure)
 category:       Data
@@ -34,5 +34,5 @@
       src/main/haskell
   build-depends:
       base >=4.19.0 && <4.22
-    , hydra-kernel ==0.17.0
+    , hydra-kernel ==0.17.1
   default-language: Haskell2010
