[release/1.6] Prepare release notes for v1.6.24

[akhilerm]

Welcome to the v1.6.24 release of containerd!

The twenty-fourth patch release for containerd 1.6 contains various fixes and updates.

Notable Updates

• CRI: fix leaked shim caused by high IO pressure (#9004)
• Update to go1.20.8 (#9073)
• Update runc to v1.1.9 (#8966)
• Backport: add configurable mount options to overlay snapshotter (#8961)
• log: cleanups and improvements to decouple more from logrus (#9002)

See the changelog for complete list of changes

Please try out the release binaries and report any issues at
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues.

Contributors

• Sebastiaan van Stijn
• Akihiro Suda
• Wei Fu
• Akhil Mohan
• Derek McGowan
• Cardy.Tang
• Danny Canter
• Kazuyoshi Kato
• Mike Brown
• Phil Estes
• Samuel Karp

Changes

44 commits

• cdd59290d Prepare release notes for v1.6.24
• [release/1.6 backport] log: cleanups and improvements to decouple more from logrus (#9002)
  • 33c2d88e7 Revert "log: define G() as a function instead of a variable"
  • 0a7f2975e log: swap logrus functions with their equivalent on default logger
  • 9d175a19b log: add package documentation and summary of package's purpose
  • 96fb65529 log: make Fields type a generic map[string]any
  • bace17e2e log: add log.Entry type
  • dd127885f log: define OutputFormat type
  • 5b4cf2329 log: define G() as a function instead of a variable
  • ee1b4a1e2 log: add all log-levels that are accepted
  • d563a411f log: group "enum" consts and touch-up docs
  • 6e8f4555b log: WithLogger: remove redundant intermediate var
  • c19325559 log: SetFormat: include returns in switch
  • c3c22f8cb log: remove gotest.tools dependency
• [release/1.6] update to go1.20.8 (#9073)
  • a2c294800 [release/1.6] update to go1.20.8
• [release/1.6 backport] make repositories of install dependencies configurable (#9024)
  • 0da8dcaa7 make repositories of install dependencies configurable
• [release/1.6 backport] update Golang to go1.20.7, minimum version go1.19 (#9020)
  • 8e6a9de5b update to go1.20.7, go1.19.12
  • 8b2eb371f Update Go to 1.20.6,1.19.11
  • cff669c7a update go to go1.20.5, go1.19.10
  • f34a22de9 update go to go1.20.4, go1.19.9
  • e8e73065e update go to go1.20.3, go1.19.8
  • 9b3f950d6 Go 1.20.2
  • 17d03ac68 Go 1.20.1
  • 861f65447 go.mod: go 1.19
  • 81fa93784 Stop using math/rand.Read and rand.Seed (deprecated in Go 1.20)
  • 70dc11a6c lint: remove //nolint:dupword that are no longer needed
  • fec784a06 lint: silence "SA1019: tar.TypeRegA has been deprecated... (staticheck)"
  • 6648df1ad lint: silence "type HostFileConfig is unused (unused)"
  • e6b268bc7 golangci-lint v1.51.1
  • c552ccf67 go.mod: golang.org/x/sync v0.1.0
• [releases/1.6] *: fix leaked shim caused by high IO pressure (#9004)
  • d00af5c3e integration: issue7496 case should work for runc.v2 only
  • 583696e4e Vagrantfile: add strace tool
  • ab21d60d2 pkg/cri/server: add criService as argument when handle exit event
  • a229883cb pkg/cri/server: fix leaked shim issue
  • d8f824200 integration: add case to reproduce shim process leaked when the host having high disk i/o usage #7496
• [release/1.6] Cherry-pick: [overlay] add configurable mount options to overlay snapshotter (#8961)
  • 8cd40e1d0 Add configurable mount options to overlay
  • 453fa397a feat: make overlay sync removal configurable
• [release/1.6 backport] update runc binary to v1.1.9 (#8966)
  • 4cb7764df update runc binary to v1.1.9

Dependency Changes

• golang.org/x/sync 036812b2e83c -> v0.1.0

Previous release can be found at v1.6.23

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[AkihiroSuda]

/ok-to-test

[mikebrow]

LGTM

[mikebrow]

LGTM

[akhilerm]

/retest