[Identity] Prep preview release (Azure#35603)

Signed-off-by: Paul Van Eck <[email protected]>

Author: pvaneck

sdk/identity/azure-identity/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,20 +1,16 @@
 # Release History
 
-## 1.16.1 (Unreleased)
+## 1.17.0b1 (2024-05-13)
 
 ### Features Added
 
 - Added environment variable `AZURE_CLIENT_SEND_CERTIFICATE_CHAIN` support for `EnvironmentCredential`.
 - Introduced a new credential, `AzurePipelinesCredential`, for supporting workload identity federation in Azure Pipelines with service connections ([#35397](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/pull/35397)).
 
-### Breaking Changes
-
 ### Bugs Fixed
 
 - Fixed typing errors when certain credentials are used as context managers. ([#35415](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/pull/35415))
 
-### Other Changes
-
 ## 1.16.0 (2024-04-09)
 
 ### Other Changes

sdk/identity/azure-identity/azure/identity/_version.py

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 # Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
 # Licensed under the MIT License.
 # ------------------------------------
-VERSION = "1.16.1"
+VERSION = "1.17.0b1"

sdk/identity/azure-identity/setup.py

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     url="https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/tree/main/sdk/identity/azure-identity",
     keywords="azure, azure sdk",
     classifiers=[
-        "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+        "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
         "Programming Language :: Python",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",