This is for anyone interested in trying-out and commenting about the upcoming version 17.0
17.0 is due to be released approx September 2025 so this is released as 16.9b to avoid sorting problems with 17.0 later. Libuninames-fr has also been updated to ListeDesNomes 16.0.
Here is more information about 17.0 Beta.
configure has been updated to run 'make clean' anytime when you run ./configure to allow for fresh builds since library builds can be made to include or exclude optional French or (other (future?) language?) libuninameslist-* sub-libraries. This should help resolve Gentoo libuninameslist-20200413-makefile.patch or Debian bug #989173, however, it may be recommended to run configure with option --enable-frenchlib enabled for the benefit of French users.