Gleam v1.17.0 has been released with several notable improvements. The headline feature is `gleam export escript`, a new command that compiles a Gleam project into a single portable escript file runnable on any machine with Erlang installed — analogous to JavaScript bundlers. The language server gains document highlight support (highlighting all references to a selected variable), improved record update hovering showing unchanged fields, a new 'create unknown module' code action, and several new auto-fix actions including pattern match expansion on discarded values and correct operator suggestions in guard expressions. The compiler now offers context-aware type printing in warnings, better unknown value import suggestions, and `todo` support in constant expressions. Additional improvements include `--no-print-progress` support for `gleam dev`, an outdated dependencies count summary, better monorepo Git detection for `gleam publish`, JavaScript pattern matching optimizations, and three security CVE fixes in the build tool's configuration validation.
