Add changelog for 1.17.0 release

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+# General
+
+* The lookup order in PathProbe changed to [environmentPaths,
+  searchPaths, platformEnvironmentPaths, platformSearchPaths].
+* The pathPrefix and platformPaths properties have been removed from the
+  PathProbe item. They were deprecated since Qbs 1.13.
+* The protocBinary property in the protobuf module has been renamed to
+  compilerPath.
+* A new module capnp for Cap'n Proto in C++ applications has been added.
+  Cap'n Proto is a serialization protocol similar to protobuf.
+* The qbs-setup-android tool got a --system flag to install profiles
+  system-wide similar to qbs-setup-qt and qbs-setup-toolchains.
+
+
+# Language
+
+* The product and project variables are now available on the
+  right-hand-side of moduleProvider expressions and the default scope is
+  product (QBS-1587).
+
+
+# C/C++ Support
+
+* Lots of improvements have been made on toolchain support for
+  bare-metal devices in general. Bare-metal targets can be selected by
+  setting qbs.targetPlatform to 'none'.
+* KEIL: The ARMCLANG, C166 and C251 toolchains are now supported.
+* IAR: National's CR16, Microchip's AVR32, NXP's M68K, Renesas'
+  M8/16C/M32C/R32C/SuperH targets and RISC-V targets are now supported.
+* GCC: National's CR16, NXP M68K, Renesas M32C/M32R/SuperH/V850 as well
+  as RISC-V and Xtensa targets are now supported.
+* MSVC: Module definition files can now be used to provide the linker
+  with information about exports and attributes (QBS-571).
+* MSVC: "/external:I" is now used to set system include paths (QBS-1573).
+* MSVC: cpp.generateCompilerListingFiles is now supported to generate
+  assembler listings.
+* Xcode: macOS framework paths on the command line are now automatically
+  deduplicated (QBS-1552).
+* Xcode: Support for Xcode 12.0 has been added (QBS-1582).
+
+
+# Qt Support
+
+* The Qt for Android modules have been cleaned up. Support for ARMv5, MIPS and
+  MIPS64 targets has been removed (QBS-1496).
+* Initial support for Qt6 has been added.
+
+
+# Android Support
+
+* A packageType property has been added to the Android.sdk module which
+  allows to create Android App bundles (aab) instead of apk packages
+  only.
+* A aaptName property has been added to the Android.sdk module which
+  allows to use aapt2 (QBS-1562) since aapt has been deprecated.
+
+
+# Documentation
+
+* New bare-metal examples have been added and existing examples have
+  been ported to more toolchains.
+* A new how-to about cpp.rPaths has been added (QBS-1204).
+* Various minor improvements have been made.
+
+
+# Important Bug Fixes
+
+* Building Qt for Android applications as static libraries has been
+  fixed (QBS-1545).
+* Trailing slashes are no longer removed from Visual Studio environment
+  variables (QBS-1551).
+* The MSVC cpp module did not use the cpp.distributionIncludePaths
+  property (QBS-1572).
+* The visual studio generator has been fixed to work with Visual Studio
+  16.6 (QBS-1569).
+* Fixed extraction of build information from CONFIG and QT_CONFIG
+  variables in Qt installations (QBS-1387).
+* The version number is no longer appended to .so files on Android
+  (QBS-1578).
+* Compiler defines are now correctly passed to moc when processing
+  header files (QBS-1592).
+
+
+# Contributors
+
+* Alberto Mardegan
+* Christian Gagneraud
+* Christian Kandeler
+* Christian Stenger
+* Denis Shienkov
+* Ivan Komissarov
+* Jake Petroules
+* Jochen Ulrich
+* Mitch Curtis
+* Oliver Wolff
+* Raphaël Cotty
+* Richard Weickelt
+* Sergey Zhuravlev