[2.17.0] - 2025-11-04

Changed

• The release version for kraken2 has been updated to 2.17.0 to resolve an issue created by an errand tag attached to prior release.

Added

• Added initial support for classifying reads across multiple NCBI databases

Fixed

• Fixed memory related issues in blast_to_fasta program
• Fixed an issue causing classify to report domain-level taxonomies as root
• Fixed an issue causing k2 classify to hang due to invalid total sequence count
• Fixed an issue causing description field to be discarded when saving classified, or unclassified inputs to file
• Fixed an issue causing k2 classify to dead lock when processing compressed inputs