Update the AUTHORS file and add issues_closed_for_0.17.md for the upcoming 0.17 release

AUTHORS

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
 Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de>
 Alexandru Ardelean <ardeleanalex@gmail.com>
+An7ar35 <eadavison@protonmail.com>
 andy5995 <andy400-dev@yahoo.com>
 Aram Poghosyan <Aram.Poghosyan@teamviewer.com>
 Björn Esser <besser82@fedoraproject.org>
@@ -11,13 +12,16 @@ Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
 Christopher Head <chead@chead.ca>
 Chris Wolfe <chriswwolfe@gmail.com>
 C. Watford (christopher.watford@gmail.com)
+Daniel Danzberger <daniel@dd-wrt.com>
 Darjan Krijan <darjan_krijan@gmx.de>
 David McCann <mccannd@uk.ibm.com>
 DeX77 <dex@dragonslave.de>
+Dimitri Papadopoulos <3234522+DimitriPapadopoulos@users.noreply.github.com>
 dota17 <chenguopingdota@163.com>
 Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh+git@nimenees.com>
 Eric Hawicz <erh+git@nimenees.com>
 Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com>
+Federico Francescon <federico.francescon@higeco.com>
 Gianluigi Tiesi <sherpya@netfarm.it>
 grdowns <grdowns@microsoft.com>
 Hex052 <elijahiff@gmail.com>
@@ -27,6 +31,7 @@ Ivan Romanov <drizt@land.ru>
 Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xs4all.nl>
 Jakov Smolic <jakov.smolic@sartura.hr>
 janczer <menshikov.ivn@gmail.com>
+JC (Jonathan Chen) <jc@dijonkitchen.org>
 Jehan <jehan@girinstud.io>
 Jehiah Czebotar <jehiah@gmail.com>
 Jonathan Wiens <j.wiens@teles.com>
@@ -34,10 +39,13 @@ Jose Bollo <jose.bollo@iot.bzh>
 José Bollo <jose.bollo@iot.bzh>
 Juuso Alasuutari <juuso.alasuutari@gmail.com>
 Keith Holman <keith.holman@windriver.com>
+Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
 Kizuna-Meraki <z9@kizunameraki.de>
 Leon Gross <leon.gross@rub.de>
 Liang, Gao <liang.gao@intel.com>
+Luca Mannella <luca.mannella@studenti.polito.it>
 Marc <34656315+MarcT512@users.noreply.github.com>
+Matthias Gatto <matthias.gatto@protonmail.com>
 max <mpano91@gmail.com>
 Micah Snyder <micasnyd@cisco.com>
 Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
@@ -53,9 +61,11 @@ Robert Bielik <robert.bielik@dirac.com>
 Robert <roby_p97@yahoo.com>
 Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
 Rubasri Kalidas <rubasri.kalidas@intel.com>
+Sergey Sharshunov <s.sharshunov@gmail.com>
 Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
 ssrlive <30760636+ssrlive@users.noreply.github.com>
 Tobias Nießen <tniessen@users.noreply.github.com>
 Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@stoeckmann.org>
 Tudor Brindus <me@tbrindus.ca>
 Unmanned Player <36690541+unmanned-player@users.noreply.github.com>
+Yurii Rashkovskii <yrashk@gmail.com>