Apache Calcite Avatica 1.17.0 is a small routine release that includes a few dependency updates and bug fixes. Of particular note is a fix to resolve a multilingual decoding issue that parses Chinese characters as gibberish. This release has also been tested with JDK 14 and Guava 29. See the list of [bug fixes and new features]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/history.html#v1-17-0) for more information.