---
title: 0.17.8
description: "ParadeDB release notes for 0.17.8"
noindex: true
---

See GitHub release: [v0.17.8](https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/releases/tag/v0.17.8)

## Stability Improvements 💪

- Improved heuristics around background merging to prefer background merges when possible, which reduces some overhead to writes