prep release branch for release (#2821)

Author: thampiotr

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,32 +8,7 @@ changes that impact end-user behavior are listed; changes to documentation or
 internal API changes are not present.
 
 
-v1.7.0-rc.4
------------------
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-- Fix issue with `prometheus.write.queue` that lead to excessive connections. (@mattdurham)
-
-v1.7.0-rc.3
------------------
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-- Fixed a bug where `loki.source.awsfirehose` and `loki.source.gcplog` could
-  not be used from within a module. (@tpaschalis)
-
-
-v1.7.0-rc.2
------------------
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-- Fix an issue where Prometheus metric name validation scheme was set by default to UTF-8. It is now set back to the
-  previous "legacy" scheme. An experimental flag `--feature.prometheus.metric-validation-scheme` can be used to switch 
-  it to `utf-8` to experiment with UTF-8 support.
-
-v1.7.0-rc.1
+v1.7.0
 -----------------
 
 ### Breaking changes
@@ -43,15 +18,15 @@ v1.7.0-rc.1
 - Remove `tls_basic_auth_config_path` attribute from `prometheus.exporter.mongodb` configuration as it does not configure TLS client
   behavior as previously documented.
 
-- Remove `encoding` and `encoding_file_ext` from `otelcol.exporter.awss3` component as it was not wired in to the otel component and 
+- Remove `encoding` and `encoding_file_ext` from `otelcol.exporter.awss3` component as it was not wired in to the otel component and
   Alloy does not currently integrate the upstream encoding extensions that this would utilize.
 
 ### Features
 
 - Add a `otelcol.receiver.tcplog` component to receive OpenTelemetry logs over a TCP connection. (@nosammai)
 
 - (_Public preview_) Add `otelcol.receiver.filelog` component to read otel log entries from files (@dehaansa)
-  
+
 - (_Public preview_) Add a `otelcol.processor.cumulativetodelta` component to convert metrics from
   cumulative temporality to delta. (@madaraszg-tulip)
 
@@ -64,12 +39,12 @@ v1.7.0-rc.1
 ### Enhancements
 
 - Upgrade to OpenTelemetry Collector v0.119.0 (@dehaansa):
-  - `otelcol.processor.resourcedetection`: additional configuration for the `ec2` detector to configure retry behavior 
+  - `otelcol.processor.resourcedetection`: additional configuration for the `ec2` detector to configure retry behavior
   - `otelcol.processor.resourcedetection`: additional configuration for the `gcp` detector to collect Managed Instance Group attributes
   - `otelcol.processor.resourcedetection`: additional configuration for the `eks` detector to collect cloud account attributes
   - `otelcol.processor.resourcedetection`: add `kubeadm` detector to collect local cluster attributes
   - `otelcol.processor.cumulativetodelta`: add `metric_types` filtering options
-  - `otelcol.exporter.awss3`: support configuring sending_queue behavior 
+  - `otelcol.exporter.awss3`: support configuring sending_queue behavior
   - `otelcol.exporter.otlphttp`: support configuring `compression_params`, which currently only includes `level`
   - `configtls`: opentelemetry components with tls config now support specifying TLS curve preferences
   - `sending_queue`: opentelemetry exporters with a `sending_queue` can now configure the queue to be `blocking`
@@ -129,6 +104,15 @@ v1.7.0-rc.1
 
 - Fixed locks that wouldn't be released in the remotecfg service if some errors occurred during the configuration reload (@spartan0x117)
 
+- Fix issue with `prometheus.write.queue` that lead to excessive connections. (@mattdurham)
+
+- Fixed a bug where `loki.source.awsfirehose` and `loki.source.gcplog` could
+  not be used from within a module. (@tpaschalis)
+
+- Fix an issue where Prometheus metric name validation scheme was set by default to UTF-8. It is now set back to the
+  previous "legacy" scheme. An experimental flag `--feature.prometheus.metric-validation-scheme` can be used to switch
+  it to `utf-8` to experiment with UTF-8 support. (@thampiotr)
+
 ### Other changes
 
 - Upgrading to Prometheus v2.54.1. (@ptodev)