Prepare release notes for v1.7.1
Hold for #8499
Full notes at https://gist.github.com/dmcgowan/cba095c327c70328f3787dbb31984d8b

Welcome to the v1.7.1 release of containerd!

The first patch release for containerd 1.7 includes many fixes to CRI
sandbox mode, various other fixes, runc update, and important fixes in
core dependencies such as ttrpc and typeurl.

CRI/Sandbox Updates

• Throw not supported error when UID or GID mappings provided (#8211)
• Cleanup shim on start failure (#8282)
• Fix premature close of CRI service when there are no CNI configuration monitors (#8282)
• Avoid UID lookup from mount on Darwin (#8314)
• Keep Linux mounts for Linux sandboxes on non-Linux hosts (#8331)
• Add noexec,nodev,nosuid to /etc/resolv.conf bind mount (#8336)
• Remove entry for container from container store on error (#8457)
• Fix unmarshal in container metrics (#8472)

Other Notable Updates

• Use readonly for temporary mounts (#8300 #8358)
• Fix skip docker manifest option on image exporter (#8344)
• Update runc binary to v1.1.7 (#8451)
• Fix runtime path task option (#8453)
• Fix panic from nil checkpoint options (#8475)
• Fix transfer service configuration options (#8491)
• Fix server-side goroutine leak on receive message error (ttrpc#141)
• Fix panic caused by race to close send channel (ttrpc#140)
• Fix unmarshal to return non-nil object when nil value (ttrpc#140)

See the changelog for complete list of changes