v0.17.2

Erfana v0.17.2

Released: 2026-08-12

• Erfana no longer crashes to a black window when you open a very large project. Folders of roughly 100 000 files and up (reported on a 174 000-item external drive) now open instead of blanking the window with no message and no way out but force-quit.

• A failure in one part of the app no longer takes the whole window with it. If the project tree fails, the sidebar shows "Project tree unavailable" with a Reload button and the rest of Erfana keeps working; if something else fails, you get a recovery screen with Restart Erfana, Copy error details and Open logs folder.

• Crashes and hangs are now written to the log file — including the case where the window dies outright and no in-app message is possible — so a bug report can carry evidence instead of a description.

Technical changes

Bug fixes

• make DirectoryWatcherService tests deterministic under load
• prevent black window on very large projects

CI

• remove the Claude Code automation workflows
• make the extraResources warning edit-triggered

Chores

• bump version to 0.17.2
• merge develop into main for v0.17.2
• merge develop (Claude workflow removal) into fix/60
• clear the secret-scan false positive on the overlay test token

Documentation

• sync documentation with the #60 error-containment work
• record 2026-08-12 e2e flake observations
• move service catalogue out of root CLAUDE.md and cut derivable content
• stop project-documenter steering status back into CLAUDE.md