The 2.17 minor series tracks TensorFlow 2.17.

Features

• Enable adding hparams columns in scalar data tables in Time Series dashboard (#6737 accidentally omitted from notes in release 2.16.0)
• Usability improvements for runs table and hparams in Time Series dashboard (#6837, #6839)
• Global pins: Store pinned cards in local storage, so they’d be pinned when similar experiments are loaded. (#6850, #6819, #6821, etc)
• Handle large number of Hparams (#6777, #6780, #6807)
• Infra: Reduce binary size of tensorboard-data-server (aka “Rustboard”). (#6765, thanks @Corwinpro)

Bug Fixes

• Text plugin: Preserve whitespace. (#6833)
• Hparams plugin: load metrics when run name is “.” (#6822)
• Resolved Graph plugin compatibility issues with Keras 3. (#6759, #6823, #6761, #6857, etc. thanks @mloc)
• Restricts the protobuf dependency to be < 5.0.0, due to a recent breaking change (see #6808 for details).
• Fixes internal flag wrapper class to not crash when its __class__ attribute is accessed, which was blocking debugging with pyCharm (#6751, thanks @lostinplace)