add release notes for v0.17

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+## **0.17.0** October 7th 2016
+
+Hugo is going global with our 0.17 release.  We put a lot of thought into how we could extend Hugo 
+to support multilingual websites with the most simple and elegant experience. Hugo's multilingual
+capabilities rival the best web and documentation software, but Hugo's experience is unmatched. 
+If you have a single language website, the simple Hugo experience you already love is unchanged. 
+Adding additional languages to your website is simple and straightforward. Hugo has been completely 
+internally rewritten to be multilingual aware with translation and internationalization features 
+embedded throughout Hugo.
+
+Hugo continues its trend of each release being faster than the last. It's quite a challenge to consistently add
+significant new functionality and simultaneously dramatically improve performance. {{<gh "@bep">}} has made it 
+his personal mission to apply the Go mantra of "Enable more. Do less" to Hugo. Hugo's consistent improvement 
+is a testament to his brilliance and his dedication to his craft. Hugo is further benefited by the 
+performance improvements from the Go team in the Go 1.7 release.
+
+This release represents **over 300 contributions by over 70 contributors** to
+the main Hugo code base. Since last release Hugo has **gained 2000 stars, 50 new
+contributors and 20 additional themes.**
+
+Hugo now has:
+
+* 12,000 stars on GitHub
+* 370+ contributors
+* 110+ themes
+  
+{{<gh "@bep" >}} continues to lead the project with the lionshare of contributions 
+and reviews. A special thanks to {{<gh "@bep" >}} and {{<gh "@abourget" >}} for their 
+considerable work on multilingual support. 
+
+A big welcome to newcomers {{<gh "@MarkDBlackwell" >}}, {{<gh "@bogem" >}} and 
+{{<gh "@g3wanghc" >}} for their critical contributions.
+
+### Highlights
+
+**Multilingual Support:**
+Hugo now supports multiple languages side-by-side. A single site can now have multiple languages rendered with
+full support for translation and i18n.
+
+**Performance:**
+Hugo is faster than ever! Hugo 0.17 is not only our fastest release, it's also the most efficient.
+Hugo 0.17 is **nearly twice as fast as Hugo 0.16** and uses about 10% less memory.
+This means that the same site will build in nearly half the time it took with Hugo 0.16.
+For the first time Hugo sites are averaging well under 1ms per rendered content.
+
+**Docs overhaul:**
+This release really focused on improving the documentation. [Gohugo.io](http://gohugo.io) is 
+more accurate and complete than ever.
+
+**Support for Mac OS Sierra**
+
+### New Features
+* Multilingual support {{<gh 2303>}}
+* Allow content expiration {{<gh 2137 >}}
+* New templates functions:
+  * `querify` function to generate query strings inside templates {{<gh 2257>}}
+  * `htmlEscape` and `htmlUnescape` template functions {{<gh 2287>}}
+  * `time` converts a timestamp string into a time.Time structure {{<gh 2329>}}
+
+### Enhancements
+
+* Render the shortcodes as late as possible {{<gh 0xed0985404db4630d1b9d3ad0b7e41fb186ae0112>}}
+* Remove unneeded casts in page.getParam {{<gh 2186 >}}
+* Automatic page date fallback {{<gh 2239>}}
+* Enable safeHTMLAttr {{<gh 2234>}}
+* Add TODO list support for markdown {{<gh 2296>}}
+* Make absURL and relURL accept any type {{<gh 2352>}}
+* Suppress 'missing static' error {{<gh 2344>}}
+* Make summary, wordcount etc. more efficient {{<gh 2378>}}
+* Better error reporting in `hugo convert` {{<gh 2440>}}
+* Reproducible builds thanks to govendor {{<gh 2461>}}
+
+### Fixes
+
+* Fix shortcode in markdown headers {{<gh 2210 >}}
+* Explicitly bind livereload to hugo server port {{<gh 2205>}}
+* Fix Emojify for certain text patterns {{<gh 2198>}}
+* Normalize file name to NFC {{<gh 2259>}}
+* Ignore emacs temp files {{<gh 2266>}}
+* Handle symlink change event {{<gh 2273>}}
+* Fix panic when using URLize {{<gh 2274>}}
+* `hugo import jekyll`: Fixed target path location check {{<gh 2293>}}
+* Return all errors from casting in templates {{<gh 2356>}}
+* Fix paginator counter on x86-32 {{<gh 2420>}}
+* Fix half-broken self-closing shortcodes {{<gh 2499>}}
+
+****
+
 ## **0.16.0** June 6th 2016
 
 Hugo 0.16 is our best and biggest release ever. The Hugo community has
@@ -19,7 +107,7 @@ outdone itself with continued performance improvements,
 sites to documentation to blogs to portfolios, and increased stability.
 
 This release represents **over 550 contributions by over 110 contributors** to
-the main Hugo codebase. Since last release Hugo has **gained 3500 stars, 90
+the main Hugo code base. Since last release Hugo has **gained 3500 stars, 90
 contributors and 23 additional themes.**
 
 This release celebrates 3 years since  {{< gh "@spf13" >}} wrote the first lines
@@ -63,7 +151,7 @@ times decreased anywhere from 10% to 99%.
 * Add support for Go 1.6 `block` keyword in templates {{<gh 1832>}}
 * Partial static sync {{<gh 1644>}}
 * Source file based relative linking (a la Github) {{<gh 0x0f6b334b6715253b030c4e783b88e911b6e53e56>}}
-*  Add `ByLastmod` sort function to pages. {{<gh eb627ca16de6fb5e8646279edd295a8bf0f72bf1 >}}
+*  Add `ByLastmod` sort function to pages. {{<gh 0xeb627ca16de6fb5e8646279edd295a8bf0f72bf1 >}}
 * New templates functions:
 	* `readFile` {{<gh 1551 >}} 
     * `countwords` and `countrunes` {{<gh 1440>}}