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+title: Announcing Dotty 0.17.0-RC1 - TODO
+author: Anatolii Kmetiuk
+date: 2019-07-24
+---
+
+Greetings! With this post, we are proud to announce the 17th release of Dotty. TODO
+
+This release serves as a technology preview that demonstrates new
+language features and the compiler supporting them.
+
+Dotty is the project name for technologies that are being considered for
+inclusion in Scala 3. Scala has pioneered the fusion of object-oriented and
+functional programming in a typed setting. Scala 3 will be a big step towards
+realising the full potential of these ideas. Its main objectives are to
+
+- become more opinionated by promoting programming idioms we found to work well,
+- simplify where possible,
+- eliminate inconsistencies and surprising behaviours,
+- build on strong foundations to ensure the design hangs together well,
+- consolidate language constructs to improve the language’s consistency, safety, ergonomics, and
+  performance.
+
+You can learn more about Dotty on our [website](https://dotty.epfl.ch).
+
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+
+This is our 17th scheduled release according to our
+[6-week release schedule](https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/contributing/release.html).
+
+# What’s new in the 0.17.0-RC1 technology preview?
+TODO
+
+# Let us know what you think!
+
+If you have questions or any sort of feedback, feel free to send us a message on our
+[Gitter channel](https://gitter.im/lampepfl/dotty). If you encounter a bug, please
+[open an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/new).
+
+## Contributing
+
+Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible!
+
+According to `git shortlog -sn --no-merges 0.16.0-RC3..0.17.0-RC1` these are:
+
+```
+   119  Martin Odersky
+   103  Nicolas Stucki
+    38  Liu Fengyun
+    33  Guillaume Martres
+    33  Sara Alemanno
+    17  Anatolii
+    10  Aggelos Biboudis
+     6  Miles Sabin
+     5  Anatolii Kmetiuk
+     4  Olivier Blanvillain
+     4  Robert Stoll
+     3  odersky
+     2  Dale Wijnand
+     2  Timothée Floure
+     2  Rodrigo Fernandes
+     2  James Thompson
+     2  Steven Heidel
+     1  Stéphane MICHELOUD
+     1  bishabosha
+     1  noti0na1
+     1  Daniel Reigada
+     1  Haemin Yoo
+     1  Bunyod
+     1  Deon Taljaard
+     1  Ondra Pelech
+     1  Jon Pretty
+```
+
+If you want to get your hands dirty and contribute to Dotty, now is a good time to get involved!
+Head to our [Getting Started page for new contributors](https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/contributing/getting-started.html),
+and have a look at some of the [good first issues](https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aexp%3Anovice).
+They make perfect entry points into hacking on the compiler.
+
+We are looking forward to having you join the team of contributors.
+
+## Library authors: Join our community build
+
+Dotty now has a set of widely-used community libraries that are built against every nightly Dotty
+snapshot. Currently this includes ScalaPB, algebra, scalatest, scopt and squants.
+Join our [community build](https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty-community-build)
+to make sure that our regression suite includes your library.
+
+[Scastie]: https://scastie.scala-lang.org/?target=dotty
+
+[@odersky]: https://github.com/odersky
+[@DarkDimius]: https://github.com/DarkDimius
+[@smarter]: https://github.com/smarter
+[@felixmulder]: https://github.com/felixmulder
+[@nicolasstucki]: https://github.com/nicolasstucki
+[@liufengyun]: https://github.com/liufengyun
+[@OlivierBlanvillain]: https://github.com/OlivierBlanvillain
+[@biboudis]: https://github.com/biboudis
+[@allanrenucci]: https://github.com/allanrenucci
+[@Blaisorblade]: https://github.com/Blaisorblade
+[@Duhemm]: https://github.com/Duhemm
+[@AleksanderBG]: https://github.com/AleksanderBG
+[@milessabin]: https://github.com/milessabin
+[@anatoliykmetyuk]: https://github.com/anatoliykmetyuk