[release/1.7] Prepare release notes for v1.7.12

[dmcgowan]

Prepare release notes for v1.7.12

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Welcome to the v1.7.12 release of containerd!

The twelfth patch release for containerd 1.7 contains various fixes and updates.

Notable Updates

• Fix on dialer function for Windows (#9501)
• Improve /etc/group handling when appending groups (#9544)
• Update shim pidfile permissions to 0644 (#9548)
• Update runc binary to v1.1.11 (#9596)
• Allow import and export to reference missing content (#9600)
• Remove runc import (#9605)
• Update Go version to 1.20.13 (#9624)

Deprecation Warnings

• Emit deprecation warning for containerd.io/restart.logpath label usage (#9567)

See the changelog for complete list of changes

Please try out the release binaries and report any issues at
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues.

Contributors

• Akihiro Suda
• Sebastiaan van Stijn
• Wei Fu
• Paweł Gronowski
• Derek McGowan
• Jaroslav Jindrak
• Maksym Pavlenko
• Samuel Karp
• Anthony Nandaa
• Bjorn Neergaard
• Djordje Lukic
• Kay Yan

Changes

33 commits

• 775d544fe Prepare release notes for v1.7.12
• [release/1.7] update to go1.20.13, test go1.21.6 (#9624)
  • a5dc5b894 update to go1.20.13, test go1.21.6
• [release/1.7] shim: Create pid-file and address with 0644 permissions (#9548)
  • 8d82242eb shim: Create address file with 0644 permissions
  • 260963a35 shim: Create pid-file with 0644 permissions
• [release/1.7 backport] switch back from golang.org/x/sys/execabs to os/exec (go1.19) (#9602)
  • 872af82f5 remove remaining uses of golang.org/x/sys/execabs
  • 2ad2a2e83 switch back from golang.org/x/sys/execabs to os/exec (go1.19)
• [release/1.7] update to CDI v0.6.1, and remove github.com/opencontainers/runc dependency (#9605)
  • 9251072f7 remove github.com/opencontainers/runc dependency
  • 4e67213d4 vendor: github.com/cncf-tags/container-device-interface v0.6.1
  • e0ee0be0d go.mod: github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec v1.1.0
  • 02be2236a go.mod: github.com/.../container-device-interface v0.6.0
  • 91f953bb4 go.mod: github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec v1.1.0-rc.2
• [release/1.7 backport] import/export: Support references to missing content (#9600)
  • 6089b05d9 images/Export: Revert signature change
  • 6b4b760c3 integration/import-export: Add WithSkipMissing tests
  • abb3c5ef9 export: Copy distribution source labels to manifest annotations
  • 9609f04f6 import/export: Support references to missing content
  • 42b60d865 images/archive: use mediatype helpers
• [release/1.7 backport] update runc binary to v1.1.11 (#9596)
  • 23516a99c update runc binary to v1.1.11
• [release/1.7 backport] go.mod: dario.cat/mergo v1.0.0 (#9569)
  • 428714e32 go.mod: dario.cat/mergo v1.0.0
• [release/1.7] restart: containerd.io/restart.logpath warning (#9567)
  • 03fed557e restart: containerd.io/restart.logpath warning
• [release 1.7] backport: fix on dialer function for windows (#9501)
  • 68d237392 fix(pkg/dialer): minor fix on dialer function for windows
• [release/1.7] *: enable ARM64 runner (#9502)
  • c63165123 *: enable ARM64 runner
• [release/1.7 backport] WithAppendAdditionalGroups: better /etc/group handling (#9544)
  • 55e570844 WithAppendAdditionalGroups: better /etc/group handling

Dependency Changes

• dario.cat/mergo v1.0.0 new
• github.com/container-orchestrated-devices/container-device-interface v0.5.4 -> v0.6.1
• github.com/moby/sys/user v0.1.0 new
• github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec v1.1.0-rc.1 -> v1.1.0

Previous release can be found at v1.7.11

[akhilerm]

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[thaJeztah]

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