chore(main): release 1.17.0

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1.17.0 (2024-09-11)

Features

• Add __version__ alias to bigframes.pandas (#967) (9ce10b4)
• Add Gemini 1.5 stable models support (#945) (c1cde19)
• Allow setting table labels in to_gbq (#941) (cccc6ca)
• Define list accessor for bigframes Series (#946) (8e8279d)
• Enable read_csv() to process other files (#940) (3b35860)
• Include the bigframes package version alongside the feedback link in error messages (#936) (7b59b6d)

Bug Fixes

• Astype Decimal to Int64 conversion. (#957) (27764a6)
• Make read_gbq_function work for multi-param functions (#947) (c750be6)
• Support read_gbq_function for axis=1 application (#950) (86e54b1)

Documentation

• Add docstring returns section to Options (#937) (a2640a2)
• Update title of pypi notebook example to reflect use of the PyPI public dataset (#952) (cd62e60)

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[chelsea-lin]

The timeout of notebook can be fixed by #970, where the fixing are tests only.

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