Play 2.8.17

[mkurz]

The Play Team is happy to announce the release of Play 2.8.17.

📗 What is new?

Following pull requests got merged for this release:

• [2.8.x] Update Evolutions.scala (backport #11345) by @BlankFX #11430 [2.8.x] Update Evolutions.scala (backport Update Evolutions.scala #11345) by @BlankFX
• SLF4J 2 compatibility: avoid direct usage of StaticLoggerBinder #11419 SLF4J 2 compatibility: avoid direct usage of StaticLoggerBinder by @jfsoul
• link to ScalaCompileTimeDI doc from the DI section of the ScalaWS help #11367 link to ScalaCompileTimeDI doc from the DI section of the ScalaWS help by @ianknowles
• [2.8.x] Update branch in message (RedirectHttpsFilter) (backport #11332) by @PromanSEW #11333 [2.8.x] Update branch in message (RedirectHttpsFilter) (backport Update branch in message (RedirectHttpsFilter) #11332) by @PromanSEW
• [2.8.x] Remove 3rd party tools page #11320 [2.8.x] Remove 3rd party tools page by @felipebonezi
• Update ImplementingHelloWorld.md #11309 Update ImplementingHelloWorld.md by @ysedira

For more details see the full list of changes and the 2.8.17 milestone.

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🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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Special thanks to all code contributors who helped with this particular release (they are listed below)!

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