ReleaseNotes: Updated changelog and release notes for 8.4.0-beta1 (#44822)

CHANGELOG.md

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+<!-- 8.4.0-beta1 START -->
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+# 8.4.0-beta1 (2022-02-02)
+
+### Features and enhancements
+
+- **Alerting:** Support WeCom as a contact point type. [#40975](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40975), [@smallpath](https://github.com/smallpath)
+- **Alerting:** UI for mute timings. [#41578](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41578), [@nathanrodman](https://github.com/nathanrodman)
+- **Alerting:** add settings for peer reconnection in HA mode. [#42300](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42300), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
+- **Auth:** implement auto_sign_up for auth.jwt. [#37040](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37040), [@Roguelazer](https://github.com/Roguelazer)
+- **Dashboard:** Add Show unknown variables toggle to dashboard settings. [#41854](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41854), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
+- **Instrumentation:** Logger migration from log15 to gokit/log. [#41636](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41636), [@ying-jeanne](https://github.com/ying-jeanne)
+- **MSSQL:** Change regex to validate Provider connection string. [#40248](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40248), [@ianselmi](https://github.com/ianselmi)
+- **MSSQL:** Configuration of certificate verification for TLS connection. [#31865](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31865), [@mortenaa](https://github.com/mortenaa)
+- **Middleware:** Don't require HTTPS for HSTS headers to be emitted. [#35147](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35147), [@alexmv](https://github.com/alexmv)
+- **Navigation:** Implement Keyboard Navigation. [#41618](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41618), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
+- **News:** Reload feed when changing the time range or refreshing. [#42217](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42217), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
+- **UI/Plot:** Implement keyboard controls for plot cursor. [#42244](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42244), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
+
+<!-- 8.4.0-beta1 END -->
 <!-- 8.3.4 START -->
 
 # 8.3.4 (2022-01-17)

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 8.4.0-beta1]({{< relref "release-notes-8-4-0-beta1" >}})
 - [Release notes for 8.3.4]({{< relref "release-notes-8-3-4" >}})
 - [Release notes for 8.3.3]({{< relref "release-notes-8-3-3" >}})
 - [Release notes for 8.3.2]({{< relref "release-notes-8-3-2" >}})

docs/sources/release-notes/release-notes-8-4-0-beta1.md

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+title = "Release notes for Grafana 8.4.0-beta1"
+hide_menu = true
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+<!-- Auto generated by update changelog github action -->
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+# Release notes for Grafana 8.4.0-beta1
+
+### Features and enhancements
+
+- **Alerting:** Support WeCom as a contact point type. [#40975](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40975), [@smallpath](https://github.com/smallpath)
+- **Alerting:** UI for mute timings. [#41578](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41578), [@nathanrodman](https://github.com/nathanrodman)
+- **Alerting:** add settings for peer reconnection in HA mode. [#42300](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42300), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
+- **Auth:** implement auto_sign_up for auth.jwt. [#37040](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37040), [@Roguelazer](https://github.com/Roguelazer)
+- **Dashboard:** Add Show unknown variables toggle to dashboard settings. [#41854](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41854), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
+- **Instrumentation:** Logger migration from log15 to gokit/log. [#41636](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41636), [@ying-jeanne](https://github.com/ying-jeanne)
+- **MSSQL:** Change regex to validate Provider connection string. [#40248](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40248), [@ianselmi](https://github.com/ianselmi)
+- **MSSQL:** Configuration of certificate verification for TLS connection. [#31865](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31865), [@mortenaa](https://github.com/mortenaa)
+- **Middleware:** Don't require HTTPS for HSTS headers to be emitted. [#35147](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35147), [@alexmv](https://github.com/alexmv)
+- **Navigation:** Implement Keyboard Navigation. [#41618](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41618), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
+- **News:** Reload feed when changing the time range or refreshing. [#42217](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42217), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
+- **UI/Plot:** Implement keyboard controls for plot cursor. [#42244](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42244), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)