Update Beam website to release 2.72.0

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This pull request updates the Apache Beam website to reflect the release of version 2.72.0. It involves updating the latest release version in the site configuration, adding a comprehensive new blog post detailing the features and changes in 2.72.0, and reorganizing the download page to feature 2.72.0 as the current release while archiving the previous version.

Highlights

• Flink 2.0 Support: Added support for Flink 2.0.
• I/Os Enhancements: Introduced Datadog IO support, removed Pubsublite IO due to deprecation, migrated ClickHouse to a new Java client, and upgraded GoogleAdsIO to API v23.
• Python Improvements: Implemented exception chaining to preserve error context in several components and added a pipeline option to disable build isolation for dependencies.
• Deprecations: Removed the previously deprecated list_prefix method for Python filesystem interfaces.
• Bugfixes: Resolved issues with Yaml's validate compatible method and the Create transform's handling of different element types.
• Security Fixes: Addressed CVE-2024-28397 by replacing js2py with pythonmonkey in Yaml.

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Changelog

• CHANGES.md
  • Updated the placeholder release date for version 2.72.0.
• website/www/site/config.toml
  • Updated the release_latest parameter to 2.72.0.
• website/www/site/content/en/blog/beam-2.71.0.md
  • Adjusted heading levels for sections like 'New Features / Improvements', 'Bugfixes', and 'Known Issues'.
  • Removed specific contributors from the list.
• website/www/site/content/en/blog/beam-2.72.0.md
  • Added a new blog post detailing the Apache Beam 2.72.0 release, including highlights, I/Os, new features, deprecations, bugfixes, and security fixes.
• website/www/site/content/en/get-started/downloads.md
  • Updated the 'Current release' section to feature 2.72.0 with its download links.
  • Moved the 2.71.0 release details from 'Current release' to 'Archived releases'.

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