Add release notes for v1.7.0-beta.0

Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <derek@mcg.dev>

releases/v1.7.0-beta.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+# commit to be tagged for new release
+commit = "HEAD"
+
+project_name = "containerd"
+github_repo = "containerd/containerd"
+match_deps = "^github.com/(containerd/[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)$"
+
+# previous release
+previous = "v1.6.0"
+
+pre_release = true
+
+preface = """\
+The eighth major release of containerd includes new functionality alongside many improvements.
+This release is intended to be the last major release of containerd 1.x before 2.0.
+Some functionality in this release may be considered experimental or unstable, but will become stable or default in 2.0.
+This release still adheres to our backwards compability guarantees and users who do not use or enable new functionality should use this release with the same stability expectations.
+The previous 1.6 release has also become a long term stable release for users who prefer releases with mostly stability improvements and wish to wait a few releases for new functionality.
+
+_This is a beta release and includes some functionality which is not yet complete. While most APIs are finalized before merge, they are subject to change until the official release._
+
+### Highlights
+
+#### Sandbox API _(experimental)_
+
+The sandbox API provides a new way of managing containerd's shim, providing more flexibility and functionality for multi-container environments such as Pods and VMs.
+This API makes it easier to manage these groups of containers at a higher level and offers new extension points for shim implementations and clients.
+
+* **Sandbox API** ([#6703](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/6703))
+* **CRI Sandbox API Implementation** ([#7228](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7228))
+
+#### Transfer Service _(in progress)_
+
+* **Transfer Service** ([#7320](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7320))
+
+#### NRI _(in progress)_
+
+* **Extend NRI scope** ([nri#16](https://github.com/containerd/nri/pull/16))
+* **Support for updated NRI** ([#6019](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/6019))
+
+#### Platform Support
+
+* **Linux containers on FreeBSD** ([#7000](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7000))
+
+#### Runtime Features
+
+* **Add support for CDI device injection** ([#6654](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/6654))
+* **Support for cgroups blockio** ([#5490](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/5490))
+* **Add restart policy for enhanced restart manager** ([#6744](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/6744))
+
+#### Road to 2.0
+
+##### Refactoring
+
+There are multiple places in the code today which are being targeted for refactoring to make long term support easier and to provide more extension points.
+
+The CRI plugin is the most complex containerd plugin with a wide range of functionality. A major effort in this release and before 2.0 involves moving functionality
+out of the single CRI plugin into smaller-scoped containerd plugins, such that they can be used and tested independenty. The new sandbox and distribution interfaces provide one example of this,
+but it also being done for image and network management.
+
+The version of ttrpc has been updated this release to support streaming, allowing existing grpc services to use ttrpc.
+Services are being refactored to allow ttrpc implementations, which can be served via shim and accessed using the new sandbox management capability.
+
+* **Remove gogoproto.customtype** ([#6699](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/6699))
+* **Remove enumvalue_customname, goproto_enum_prefix and enum_customname** ([#6708](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/6708))
+* **Remove all gogoproto extensions** ([#6829](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/6829))
+* **Migrate off from github.com/gogo/protobuf** ([#6841](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/6841))
+* **ttrpc streaming** ([ttrpc#107](https://github.com/containerd/ttrpc/pull/107))
+
+* **Add unpack interface for client** ([#6749](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/6749))
+* **Add collectible resources to metadata gc** ([#6804](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/6804))
+
+##### Configuration
+
+Existing CRI configurations will be supported until 2.0.
+Any functionality split out of CRI will have their configuration migrated to new plugins.
+Deprecated configuration versions and configurations for deprecated features will be removed in 2.0.
+
+##### Deprecation
+
+The 2.0 release will remove any feature deprecated in 1.x. Features deprecated in this release include.
+
+* **Docker Schema 1 Image Deprecation** ([#6884](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/6884))
+
+#### CRI Updates
+
+* **Support image pull progress timeout** ([#6150](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/6150))
+* **Fix CRI plugin to setup pod network after creating the sandbox container** ([#5904](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/5904))
+
+#### Other
+
+* **Support shallow content copy by adding reader option to local content reader at** ([#7414](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7414))
+* **Add NoSameOwner option when unpacking tars** ([#7386](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7386))
+
+See the changelog for complete list of changes"""

version/version.go

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ var (
 	Package = "github.com/containerd/containerd"
 
 	// Version holds the complete version number. Filled in at linking time.
-	Version = "1.6.0+unknown"
+	Version = "1.7.0-beta.0+unknown"
 
 	// Revision is filled with the VCS (e.g. git) revision being used to build
 	// the program at linking time.