[ANNOUNCE] Hadoop release 0.17.0 available

[Mukund Madhugiri]

Release 0.17.0 contains many improvements, new features, bug fixes and 
optimizations.

For release details and downloads, visit:
  http://hadoop.apache.org/core/releases.html

Hadoop 0.17.0 Release Notes are at

  http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/r0.17.0/releasenotes.html

Thanks to all who contributed to this release!

Mukund