Add 2.17 release notes + changelog for #7876

- Front-end tooling upgrade

CHANGELOG.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+2.17 (xx.xx.xxxx) - IN DEVELOPMENT
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Upgrade ESLint and Stylelint configurations to latest shared Wagtail configs (Thibaud Colas)
+* Major updates to frontend tooling; move Node tooling from Gulp to Webpack, upgrade to Node v16 and npm v8, eslint v8, stylelint v14 and others (Thibaud Colas)
+
+
 2.16 (xx.xx.xxxx) - IN DEVELOPMENT
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

docs/releases/2.17.md

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Wagtail 2.17 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT
+
+```eval_rst
+.. contents::
+    :local:
+    :depth: 1
+```
+
+## What's new
+
+
+### Other features
+
+ * Upgrade ESLint and Stylelint configurations to latest shared Wagtail configs (Thibaud Colas)
+ * Major updates to frontend tooling; move Node tooling from Gulp to Webpack, upgrade to Node v16 and npm v8, eslint v8, stylelint v14 and others (Thibaud Colas)
+
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+ * ...
+
+
+## Upgrade considerations
+

docs/releases/index.rst

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Release notes
    :maxdepth: 1
 
    upgrading
+   2.17
    2.16
    2.15.3
    2.15.2