Update changelog for new version and for recent changes

include the changes for PR #363

Author: bhazelton

CHANGELOG.md

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 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.2.1] - 2021-10-13
+
 ### Added
 - Support for unit tests parallelized with MPI.
 - Require that future changes not drastically increase runtime for current capabilities.
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 - Use remote memory access to collect finished visibility data, without serialization.
 
 ### Fixed
+- `x_orientation` is now checked on UVBeam objects and flowed into the output UVData files.
 - `SkyModel.name` is now coerced to an array.
 - Bug MPI-enabled tests which caused failure on tests that wouldn't pass in serial mode.
 - Fix bugs in reading catalogs using pyradiosky for `skyh5` files and files with unusual extension names.