chore(main): release 9.17.0

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9.17.0 (2026-08-05)

Features

• Add async big segment store manager and async Redis adapter (#462) (aa492d2)
• Add async event processor (ec7c113)
• Add async event processor (#472) (ec7c113)
• Add async FDv1 polling data source and feature requester (#475) (cca37a8)
• Add async FDv1 streaming and data source status tracking (#464) (4bf7067)
• Add async hook, plugin, and flag tracker (#463) (686a70a)
• Add async migration support (#470) (577d51e)
• Add AsyncConfig for the async SDK client (#471) (0587a78)

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No application code changes—only version strings and changelog/provenance docs—so publish risk is limited to incorrect version tagging.

Overview
Release Please bumps the package from 9.16.1 to 9.17.0 in .release-please-manifest.json, pyproject.toml, ldclient/version.py, and the SDK_VERSION example in PROVENANCE.md.

CHANGELOG.md gains a 9.17.0 section that records the feature work already merged on main—notably the async SDK surface (AsyncConfig, async event processor, FDv1 streaming/polling, hooks/plugins/flag tracker, migration support, and async big-segment store with Redis adapter). This PR does not introduce those implementations; it only versions and documents them for publish.

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