chore: add v1.7.1 release note (#2022)

Signed-off-by: Ling Samuel (WSL) <[email protected]>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -38,6 +38,39 @@
 - [0.2.0](#020)
 - [0.1.0](#010)
 
+# 1.7.1
+
+Welcome to the v1.7.1 release of apisix-ingress-controller!
+
+This is a Patch version release.
+
+## Highlights
+
+Please try out the release binaries and report any issues at
+https://github.com/apache/apisix-ingress-controller/issues.
+
+### Contributors
+
+* Jintao Zhang
+* Sarasa Kisaragi
+* Xin Rong
+
+### Changes
+<details><summary>3 commits</summary>
+<p>
+
+* [`b42ed7e`](https://github.com/apache/apisix-ingress-controller/commit/b42ed7e3636b0a33e183ff8df17c7c622ae39632) fix: plugin_metadata not populating to the correct etcd key (#2012) (#2021)
+* [`a07a30b`](https://github.com/apache/apisix-ingress-controller/commit/a07a30bef39635fa823fa684b1fe881d62bfdf2f) fix: ingress-apisix version of deploy image tag and document (#1968) (#1972)
+* [`d91757a`](https://github.com/apache/apisix-ingress-controller/commit/d91757a1601e984f6bd0c22753b020a092adfc4e) chore: release v1.7.0 (#1952)
+</p>
+</details>
+
+### Dependency Changes
+
+This release has no dependency changes
+
+Previous release can be found at [v1.7.0](https://github.com/apache/apisix-ingress-controller/releases/tag/v1.7.0)
+
 # 1.7.0
 
 Welcome to the 1.7.0 release of apisix-ingress-controller!

Makefile

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #
 default: help
 
-VERSION ?= 1.7.0
+VERSION ?= 1.7.1
 
 
 TARGET_APISIX_VERSION ?= "3.4.1-centos"

releases/v1.7.1.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# commit to be tagged for new release
+commit = "HEAD"
+
+# project_name is used to refer to the project in the notes
+project_name = "apisix-ingress-controller"
+
+# github_repo is the github project, only github is currently supported
+github_repo = "apache/apisix-ingress-controller"
+
+# match_deps is a pattern to determine which dependencies should be included
+# as part of this release. The changelog will also include changes for these
+# dependencies based on the change in the dependency's version.
+match_deps = "^github.com/(apache/[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)$"
+
+# previous release of this project for determining changes
+previous = "v1.7.0"
+
+# pre_release is whether to include a disclaimer about being a pre-release
+pre_release = false
+
+# preface is the description of the release which precedes the author list
+# and changelog. This description could include highlights as well as any
+# description of changes. Use markdown formatting.
+preface = """\
+ This is a Patch version release.
+
+## Highlights
+
+"""