Add release notes for v2.17.0 (#2992) (#2998)

* Add release notes for v2.17.0



* Update with latest PRs



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release-notes/opensearch-sql.release-notes-2.17.0.0.md

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+Compatible with OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards Version 2.17.0
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+### Features
+* Flint query scheduler part1 - integrate job scheduler plugin ([#2889](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2889))
+* Flint query scheduler part 2 ([#2975](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2975))
+* Add feature flag for async query scheduler ([#2989](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2989))
+
+### Enhancements
+* Change the default value of plugins.query.size_limit to MAX_RESULT_WINDOW (10000) ([#2877](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2877))
+* Support common format geo point ([#2896](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2896))
+* Add TakeOrderedOperator ([#2906](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2906))
+* IF function should support complex predicates in PPL ([#2970](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2970))
+* Add flags for Iceberg and Lake Formation and Security Lake as a data source type ([#2978](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2978))
+* Adds validation to allow only flint queries and sql SELECT queries to security lake type datasource ([#2977](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2977))
+* Delegate Flint index vacuum operation to Spark ([#2995](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2995))
+
+### Bug Fixes
+* Restrict UDF functions ([#2884](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2884))
+* Update SqlBaseParser ([#2890](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2890))
+* Boolean function in PPL should be case insensitive ([#2842](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2842))
+* Fix SparkExecutionEngineConfigClusterSetting deserialize issue ([#2972](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2972))
+* Fix jobType for Batch and IndexDML query ([#2982](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2982))
+* Fix handler for existing query ([#2983](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2983))
+
+### Infrastructure
+* Increment version to 2.17.0-SNAPSHOT ([#2892](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2892))
+* Fix :integ-test:sqlBwcCluster#fullRestartClusterTask ([#2996](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2996))
+
+### Refactoring
+* Add RequestContext parameter to verifyDataSourceAccessAndGetRawMetada method ([#2872](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2872))
+* Add AsyncQueryRequestContext to QueryIdProvider parameter ([#2887](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2887))
+* Add AsyncQueryRequestContext to FlintIndexMetadataService/FlintIndexStateModelService ([#2885](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2885))
+* Add mvQuery attribute in IndexQueryDetails ([#2951](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2951))
+* Add AsyncQueryRequestContext to update/get in StatementStorageService ([#2953](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2953))
+* Extract validation logic from FlintIndexMetadataServiceImpl ([#2954](https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2954))