no further 5.17 release planned at this time

Hello,

I'm not planning an additional 5.17 release at this time
(although things could change).
I'll make a general announcement about 5.17.1 tomorrow.

Some problems with 5.17.1 were reported. None of these seem
serious enough to require fixing on the release branch.
There are hundreds of open bug reports; I don't see that the
following are any more important than any of the others.

(1) limit(1/x, x, 0) => infinity: intended result, won't change
(2) erf sometimes returns complex result (with small imaginary
part) for real float argument: not serious
(3) problem loading affine package: situation unchanged from
last release (couldn't load affine due to a different problem)
(4) Problem running 5.17.1 on one user's Windows system:
problem only for that one user to the best of my knowledge
(5) asksign nuttiness in limit(a*x, x, 0): annoying, not incorrect

Hope I didn't leave out anything too important.

Thanks for your patience.

Robert Dodier