Add the generated Acknowledgements section to perldelta

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 =head1 Acknowledgements
 
+Perl 5.17.7 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.17.6
+and contains approximately 30,000 lines of changes across 490 files from 26
+authors.
+
+Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community
+of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the
+improvements that became Perl 5.17.7:
+
+Alexandr Ciornii, Bob Ernst, Brian Carlson, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A.
+Berry, Daniel Dragan, Dave Rolsky, David Mitchell, Father Chrysostomos, Hugo
+van der Sanden, James E Keenan, Joel Berger, Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Martin
+Hasch, Matthew Horsfall, Nicholas Clark, Ricardo Signes, Ruslan Zakirov, Sergey
+Alekseev, Steffen Müller, Sullivan Beck, Sven Strickroth, Sébastien
+Aperghis-Tramoni, Tony Cook, Yves Orton.
+
+The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated
+from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of
+the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug
+tracker.
+
+Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
+included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
+helping Perl to flourish.
+
+For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see
+the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
+
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