Release Apache Kudu 1.18.0

[examples] Bump Kudu version to 1.18.0 for examples

Change-Id: I6e7fcb482e16e01bd2cd8869ee3463a3c2e55370
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/23091
Reviewed-by: Alexey Serbin <alexey@apache.org>
Tested-by: Abhishek Chennaka <achennaka@cloudera.com>

Release Apache Kudu 1.17.1

[docs] Update release notes for 1.17.1

Change-Id: Id754799a3858580f19d66c2eb96b6769b8b9c95a
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/22004
Reviewed-by: Alexey Serbin <alexey@apache.org>
Tested-by: Abhishek Chennaka <achennaka@cloudera.com>

[docs] Add section header for release notes

Change-Id: I73d86c77fb553a5063ab78f6513a1fe24329367c
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/21963
Tested-by: Kudu Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Alexey Serbin <alexey@apache.org>

[examples] Bump Kudu version to 1.17.1 for examples

Change-Id: I0a6f5e8754e59b6a64db853ef955b83fb39d6294
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/21901
Tested-by: Kudu Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Alexey Serbin <alexey@apache.org>

Release Apache Kudu 1.17.0

Unify patch file names to avoid RAT issue

Patch files should be named as *.patch to be excluded
correctly when run Apache RAT tool.

The exclude rule is descripted as thirdparty/patches/*.patch
in build-support/release/rat_exclude_files.txt.

Change-Id: I39449abcdbdaa698069395ab63b34495968dd1c4
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/20423
Reviewed-by: Alexey Serbin <alexey@apache.org>
Tested-by: Kudu Jenkins
(cherry picked from commit 092a0ef)
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/20424
Tested-by: Yingchun Lai <laiyingchun@apache.org>

[docs] Add 1.16.0 release notes to previous release notes

Change-Id: I20a3de90d774f40aec4e03b810e55b72bff27fd1
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/20296
Tested-by: Kudu Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Alexey Serbin <alexey@apache.org>
(cherry picked from commit 956f202)
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/20298

Release Apache Kudu 1.16.0