Update docs for v0.17.x release

Author: Jordan Adler

docs/credits.rst

@@ -30,33 +30,40 @@ The software is distributed under an MIT licence. The text is as follows
 
 .. _sponsor:
 
-Sponsor
--------
+Sponsors
+--------
 Python Charmers Pty Ltd, Australia, and Python Charmers Pte Ltd, Singapore.
 http://pythoncharmers.com
 
+Pinterest https://opensource.pinterest.com/
 
 .. _authors:
 
 Authors
 -------
 
-Python-Future is written and maintained by Ed Schofield with the help of
-various contributors:
+Python-Future is written and maintained by Ed Schofield and Jordan Adler
+with the help of various contributors:
 
-Development Lead
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Development Leads
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 - Ed Schofield <ed@pythoncharmers.com>
+- Jordan Adler <jordan.m.adler@gmail.com>
 
 Patches
 ~~~~~~~
 
+- Grant Bakker
 - Jacob Beck
+- Nate Bogdanowicz
 - Denis Cornehl
 - Nicolas Delaby
+- Jon Dufresne
 - Corey Farwell
 - Eric Firing
+- Maximilian Hils
+- Martijn Jacobs
 - Michael Joseph
 - Waldemar Kornewald
 - Alexey Kotlyarov
@@ -65,26 +72,37 @@ Patches
 - Joshua Landau
 - German Larrain
 - Chris Lasher
+- Calum Lind
+- Jon Parise
+- Matthew Parnell
+- Miga Purg
+- Éloi Rivard
 - Elliott Sales de Andrade
+- Yury Selivanov
 - Tim Shaffer
+- Louis Sautier
 - Daniel Szoska
+- Flaviu Tamas
 - Jeff Tratner
 - Tim Tröndle
 - Brad Walker
-- Mystic-Mirage (GitHub)
-- str4d (GitHub)
-- 9seconds (GitHub)
-- Varriount (GitHub)
+- cclaus (GiHub user)
+- lsm (GiHub user)
+- Mystic-Mirage (GitHub user)
+- str4d (GitHub user)
+- 9seconds (GitHub user)
+- Varriount (GitHub user)
 
 Suggestions and Feedback
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 - Chris Adams
 - Martijn Faassen
+- Joe Gordon
 - Lion Krischer
 - Danielle Madeley
 - Val Markovic
-- wluebbe (GitHub)
+- wluebbe (GitHub user)
 
 
 Other Credits

docs/whatsnew.rst

@@ -3,14 +3,29 @@
 What's New
 **********
 
-.. _whats-new-0.16.x:
-
-What's new in version 0.16.1 (unreleased)
+What's new in version 0.17 (2018-10-19)
 =========================================
 
-This is a minor bug-fix release:
-
-- Fix `from collections import ChainMap` after install_aliases() (issue #226)
+This is a major bug-fix release, including:
+
+- Fix ``from collections import ChainMap`` after install_aliases() (issue #226)
+- Fix multiple import from ``__future__`` bug in futurize (issue #113)
+- Add support for proper %s formatting of newbytes
+- Properly implement iterator protocol for newrange object
+- Fix ``past.translation`` on read-only file systems
+- Fix Tkinter import bug introduced in Python 2.7.4 (issue #262)
+- Correct TypeError to ValueError in a specific edge case for newrange
+- Support inequality tests betwen newstrs and newbytes
+- Add type check to __get__ in newsuper
+- Fix fix_divsion_safe to support better conversion of complex expressions, and
+  skip obvious float division.
+
+As well as a number of corrections to a variety of documentation, and updates to
+test infrastructure.
+
+In this release, we also drop official support for Py2.6 and Py3.3. They should
+still work, but support is no longer guaranteed, and breaking changes will be
+introduced in subsequent versions.
 
 
 What's new in version 0.16.0 (2016-10-27)