chore: bump version to 0.17.0, and the client minimum with it

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

8 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/packages/meshbay-client/package.json b/packages/meshbay-client/package.json
index b26a527..80c021f 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-client/package.json
+++ b/packages/meshbay-client/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "meshbay-client",
-  "version": "0.16.0",
+  "version": "0.17.0",
   "description": "MeshBay desktop client — the interface ships with the application, not from the hub",
   "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
   "author": "MeshBay Team <team@meshbay.org>",
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-common/pyproject.toml b/packages/meshbay-common/pyproject.toml
index 9f43cf2..188ccf6 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-common/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/meshbay-common/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "meshbay-common"
-version = "0.16.0"
+version = "0.17.0"
 description = "MeshBay shared cryptographic primitives and protocol types"
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
 dependencies = [
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/__init__.py b/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/__init__.py
index fbfdd4d..b68e828 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/__init__.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """MeshBay common — shared crypto primitives and protocol types."""
 
-__version__ = "0.16.0"
+__version__ = "0.17.0"
 # 0.2: added PING/PONG, and `before`/`has_more` on chat history. Both are
 # additive — an 0.1 peer sends no `before` and gets the newest page, which is
 # what it wanted — so this is a MINOR bump, not a MAJOR one.
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/pyproject.toml b/packages/meshbay-hub/pyproject.toml
index fb64cf6..7f1154c 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "meshbay-hub"
-version = "0.16.0"
+version = "0.17.0"
 description = "MeshBay Hub — identity authority and group registry server"
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
 dependencies = [
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/__init__.py b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/__init__.py
index 1ea6708..4d3d6dd 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/__init__.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """MeshBay Hub — identity authority and group registry."""
 
-__version__ = "0.16.0"
+__version__ = "0.17.0"
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/hub.py b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/hub.py
index efebc4d..a1afe38 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/hub.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/hub.py
@@ -83,8 +83,12 @@ async def hub_pubkey():
 # session token to a node, which a 4.0 node refuses. A desktop client below
 # 0.16.0 is told to update *before* it connects rather than meeting a handshake
 # refusal it cannot read; the browser reloads this build from the hub.
-MIN_CLIENT_VERSION = "0.16.0"
-RECOMMENDED_CLIENT_VERSION = "0.16.0"
+#
+# 0.17.0 seals identity bundles under the hub's pepper (MBK3) and no longer
+# reads MBK1/MBK2. An older client would still write them, and every such
+# bundle is one no browser of the account can open again.
+MIN_CLIENT_VERSION = "0.17.0"
+RECOMMENDED_CLIENT_VERSION = "0.17.0"
 
 
 @router.get("/version")
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-node/pyproject.toml b/packages/meshbay-node/pyproject.toml
index 1265da4..ce1f718 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-node/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/meshbay-node/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "meshbay-node"
-version = "0.16.0"
+version = "0.17.0"
 description = "MeshBay Node — local file host, streaming server, and group daemon"
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
 dependencies = [
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/__init__.py b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/__init__.py
index 5cbf5ea..c3c18ff 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/__init__.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """MeshBay Node — local file host, streaming server, and group daemon."""
 
-__version__ = "0.16.0"
+__version__ = "0.17.0"