ReleaseNotes: Updated changelog and release notes for 8.1.7 (#40081) (#40101)

(cherry picked from commit 4a91ceeb1e)

Co-authored-by: Grot (@grafanabot) <43478413+grafanabot@users.noreply.github.com>

docs/sources/release-notes/_index.md

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 Here you can find detailed release notes that list everything that is included in every release as well as notices
 about deprecations, breaking changes as well as changes that relate to plugin development.
 
+- [Release notes for 8.1.7]({{< relref "release-notes-8-1-7" >}})
 - [Release notes for 8.1.6]({{< relref "release-notes-8-1-6" >}})
 - [Release notes for 8.1.5]({{< relref "release-notes-8-1-5" >}})
 - [Release notes for 8.1.4]({{< relref "release-notes-8-1-4" >}})

docs/sources/release-notes/release-notes-8-1-7.md

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+title = "Release notes for Grafana 8.1.7"
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+<!-- Auto generated by update changelog github action -->
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+# Release notes for Grafana 8.1.7
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+### Bug fixes
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+- **Alerting:** Fix alerts with evaluation interval more than 30 seconds resolving before notification. [#39513](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39513), [@gerobinson](https://github.com/gerobinson)
+- **Elasticsearch/Prometheus:** Fix usage of proper SigV4 service namespace. [#39439](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39439), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)