start preparing for release 1.17 (#5895)

Signed-off-by: Ben Ye <[email protected]>

Author: yeya24

CHANGELOG.md

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 # Changelog
 
 ## master / unreleased
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+## 1.17.0 in progress
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 * [CHANGE] Azure Storage: Upgraded objstore dependency and support Azure Workload Identity Authentication. Added `connection_string` to support authenticating via SAS token. Marked `msi_resource` config as deprecating. #5645
 * [CHANGE] Store Gateway: Add a new fastcache based inmemory index cache. #5619
 * [CHANGE] Index Cache: Multi level cache backfilling operation becomes async. Added `-blocks-storage.bucket-store.index-cache.multilevel.max-async-concurrency` and `-blocks-storage.bucket-store.index-cache.multilevel.max-async-buffer-size` configs and metric `cortex_store_multilevel_index_cache_backfill_dropped_items_total` for number of dropped items. #5661

RELEASE.md

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 | v1.14.0        | 2022-11-15                                 | Alan Protasio (@alanprot)                   |
 | v1.15.0        | 2023-03-27                                 | Ben Ye (@yeya24)                            |
 | v1.16.0        | 2023-11-05                                 | Ben Ye (@yeya24)                            |
+| v1.17.0        | 2024-04-25                                 | Ben Ye (@yeya24)                            |
 
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