[ehsun-sh]

Requested by Ehsan · project thread

Before: the package, desktop app and examples declare 0.16.0.

After: everything declares 0.17.0, ready to tag and publish.

How: the same files as the 0.16.0 cut (pyproject, __init__, desktop package.json/lock, CITATION with today's date, README, RELEASING, SECURITY, every example's maiman_version).

Release notes draft

• Desktop app (Ship the studio as a desktop application (Electron) #2, Fix the Linux desktop build: name a .deb maintainer #3, Add double-click launchers for the desktop app in the repo root #4): Windows, macOS and Linux installers built by the Desktop workflow; unsigned for now. Launchers in the repo root.
• Examples, seven phases (Phase 1 examples: first light, an optical oscilloscope and an Examples menu #5–Phase 7 examples: real-world systems #12): first light and an optical oscilloscope; direct-detection links; amplified and WDM links; coherent links with a PCS mapper and mutual information; photonic integrated circuits with a coupled-waveguide block; sensing with an OTDR; real-world systems. Examples menu grouped by phase.
• Lessons, notes, frames and arrows on the canvas (Teach on the canvas: lessons, notes, frames and arrows; split the examples #1).
• Opening or starting a project now clears every instrument (Studio: opening or starting a project clears every instrument #10).

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