[Release] openai/openai-agents-python v0.17.2: v0.17.2

OpenAI Agents Python v0.17.2 is a maintenance release focused on bug fixes and documentation improvements. Key fixes address OpenAI Conversations reasoning persistence, realtime tool handling, tracing retry behavior, approval rejection reasons, session settings, and chat tool outputs. The release includes documentation clarifications on retry mechanisms, sandbox archive limits, and memory cross-references.

Key Points

• •Fixed OpenAI Conversations reasoning persistence issue (#3268) to ensure reasoning state is properly maintained across conversations
• •Prevented auto-response for unknown realtime tools (#3287) to avoid unintended tool invocations
• •Improved tracing retry backoff handling on shutdown (#3354) to prevent hanging processes during graceful shutdown
• •Preserved local approval rejection reasons (#3359) to maintain audit trail and user feedback in approval workflows
• •Fixed AsyncSQLiteSession to honor session settings (#3361) ensuring consistent configuration across async operations
• •Eliminated empty chat tool outputs (#3310) to prevent malformed responses in tool interactions
• •Clarified max_delay retry documentation to help developers understand exponential backoff behavior
• •Updated sandbox archive limits documentation (#3278) to reflect current platform constraints

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