Update changelog and test image to release-v1.17.1

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Updates the testing image to latest tag for new release and adds changelog for the new release release-1.17 branch.
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[mattcary]

This should be done in the master only, and not the release branch.

The change log should have been deleted from the release branch as well, as just the master changelog is kept up.

Also, we only deploy out of the master branch, although I don't think we know the right way to clean up the deploy overlays in the release branches.

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