chore(main): release 0.17.0

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0.17.0 (2025-03-18)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• load_pytket takes arrays by default (pass use_arrays=False for qubit arguments)
• Option is now a builtin type.
• angle.{__mul__, __rmul__, __truediv__, __rtruediv__ now take a float instead of an int.

Features

• add get_current_shot() to qsystem module (#806) (3632ec6)
• add Option.unwrap_nothing() method (#829) (abb1aa1), closes #810
• add barrier operation to builtins (#849) (cf0bcfb)
• Allow array arguments to load_pytket (#858) (37b8b80)
• Allow explicit application of type arguments (#821) (8f90c04), closes #770
• Generalise scalar angle operations to float (#824) (d3f5c7f)
• Implement float to int and nat casts (#831) (b56d66c), closes #794
• qsystem: add Random number generation module (08fbf47)
• Switch to improved iterator protocol (#833) (348dfdc)

Bug Fixes

• Correctly handle assignments of arrays in control-flow (#845) (32ded02), closes #844
• Define len of arrays using Guppy (#863) (6868ff6), closes #804
• Fix array comprehensions with generic element type (#865) (50df0db), closes #864
• Fix compiler diagnostics when calling check instead of compile (#854) (9993338)
• Fix diagnostic spans for indented code (#856) (d9fc9fd), closes #852
• Fix error message for conditional shadowing of global variables (#815) (bdaae11), closes #772
• Fix linearity checking for array copies (#841) (d9b085f), closes #838
• Fix mutation of nested arrays (#839) (ffb64f9)
• Fix rendering of line breaks in diagnostics (#819) (75efd22), closes #818
• Prevent reordering of operations with side-effects (#855) (75eb441)

Documentation

• Fix API docs build (#843) (cc1e90c)

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