Merge pull request microsoft#2121 from jenshnielsen/017changelog

Changelog for 0.17

docs/changes/0.17.0.rst

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+Changelog for QCoDeS 0.17.0
+===========================
+
+The August 2020 release of QCoDeS.
+
+Note: QCoDeS no longer officially supports Python ``3.6``.
+
+
+Breaking Changes:
+_________________
+
+There are no breaking changes in this release of QCoDeS.
+
+
+New:
+____
+
+- Add in-memory cache representation for data of ``DataSet`` (#2062)
+
+
+Improved drivers:
+_________________
+
+- Keithley 2600: Add linefreq to pyvisa-sim yml file (#2100)
+- Keysight B1500: convert dummy values to NaN for spot measurement (#2108)
+
+
+Improved:
+_________
+
+- Station: Pass name as kwarg so that its order in instrument class is not relevant (#2099)
+- Add support for matplotlib 3.3 (#2101)
+- fix matplotlib deprecation warning (#2120)
+- Docs: update qcodes usage link (#2091)
+- Docs: Python version 3.6 is updated to 3.7 in ``Getting Started->Requirements`` (#2107)
+- Docs: Updating the broken link for conda-environment-update in Qcodes documentation (#2111)
+- Update error message for instruments pickling (#2094)
+- Fix: convert spyder kernels site print statement to logging message (#2097)
+
+
+Under the hood:
+_______________
+
+- Move write cache to from ``DataSaver`` to ``DataSet`` (#2112, #2114)
+- remove conda ruamel package to fix pipelines build (#2104)
+- Add Codacy and PyPi badges to readme (#2110)
+- Add supported python versions badge (#2113)
+- Bump sphinx from 3.1.2 to 3.2.1 (#2117)

docs/changes/index.rst

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    0.15.0a1 <0.15.0a1>
    0.15.0 <0.15.0>
    0.16.0 <0.16.0>
+   0.17.0 <0.17.0>

setup.py

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           'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',
           'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
           'Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only',
-          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
           'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
           'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
           'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering'