Copy release notes from release-17.0 into main

Signed-off-by: Shlomi Noach <2607934+shlomi-noach@users.noreply.github.com>

changelog/17.0/17.0.7/changelog.md

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+# Changelog of Vitess v17.0.7
+
+### Bug fixes 
+#### Query Serving
+ * [release-17.0] TxThrottler: dont throttle unless lag (#14789) [#15189](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15189)
+ * [release-17.0] Fix aliasing in routes that have a derived table (#15550) [#15552](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15552)
+ * [release-17.0] fix: don't forget DISTINCT for derived tables (#15672) [#15676](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15676)
+ * [release-17.0] Fix wrong assignment to `sql_id_opt` in the parser (#15862) [#15867](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15867) 
+#### Topology
+ * [release-17.0] Fix ZooKeeper Topology connection locks not being cleaned up correctly (#15757) [#15762](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15762) 
+#### VReplication
+ * [release-17.0] VReplication: Take replication lag into account in VStreamManager healthcheck result processing (#15761) [#15772](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15772) 
+#### VTAdmin
+ * [release-17.0] [VTAdmin API] Fix schema cache flag, add documentation (#15704) [#15718](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15718)
+### CI/Build 
+#### Build/CI
+ * [release-17.0] Update to latest CodeQL (#15530) [#15532](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15532)
+ * [release-17.0] Upgrade go version in upgrade tests to `go1.21.9` [#15640](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15640) 
+#### General
+ * [release-17.0] Upgrade Golang from `v1.20.13` to `v1.21.9` [#15669](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15669)
+ * [release-17.0] Upgrade the Golang version to `go1.21.10` [#15863](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15863)
+### Performance 
+#### VTTablet
+ * [release-17.0] Improve performance for `BaseShowTablesWithSizes` query. (#15713) [#15792](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15792)
+### Release 
+#### General
+ * [release-17.0] Bump to `v17.0.7-SNAPSHOT` after the `v17.0.6` release [#15487](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15487)
+ * [release-17.0] Code Freeze for `v17.0.7` [#15878](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15878)
+

changelog/17.0/17.0.7/release_notes.md

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+# Release of Vitess v17.0.7
+The entire changelog for this release can be found [here](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/main/changelog/17.0/17.0.7/changelog.md).
+
+The release includes 14 merged Pull Requests.
+
+Thanks to all our contributors: @app/vitess-bot, @frouioui, @systay, @vitess-bot
+

changelog/17.0/README.md

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 ## v17.0
+* **[17.0.7](17.0.7)**
+ * [Changelog](17.0.7/changelog.md)
+ * [Release Notes](17.0.7/release_notes.md)
+
 * **[17.0.6](17.0.6)**
  * [Changelog](17.0.6/changelog.md)
  * [Release Notes](17.0.6/release_notes.md)