Microsoft Agent Framework 1.17.0 pulls Durable Task and Azure Functions integrations out of the core packages

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The dotnet-1.17.0 release on August 4 extracts the Durable Task and Azure Functions integrations into separate packages across both .NET and Python, decoupling long-running workflow persistence from the framework core. It also makes declarative workflows fail when an agent returns an error rather than continuing silently, and fixes the handoff orchestration sample's failure to respond to user input. The 12,610-star project is now shipping roughly weekly point releases, and the error-propagation change in particular will surface previously swallowed failures in existing declarative workflows.