Flyte v1.7.0 milestone release

Flyte v1.7.0 release

In this release we're announcing support for Flyte Agents, a new way of writing backend plugins, only now with a much more tightly integrated developer experience. Also lots of bug fixes all around in a buch of first-time contributors.

Flytekit

• FLYTECTL_CONFIG env var should take highest precedence in flyteorg/flytekit#1662 by @wild-endeavor
• Change flytekit Pytorch, TFJob and MPI plugins to use new kubeflow config in flyteorg/flytekit#1627 by @yubofredwang
• Root cert should be byte string when loading from caCertFilePath in flyteorg/flytekit#1669 by @wild-endeavor
• Explicitly set the content type for flyte deck by in flyteorg/flytekit#1658 @pingsutw
• Set a less strict deadline for hypothesis tests in flyteorg/flytekit#1682 by @eapolinario
• Dep: Use protos of new kubeflow.pytorch plugin instead of legacy pytorch plugin in flyteorg/flytekit#1678 by @fg91
• More time info for time line deck in flyteorg/flytekit#1680 by @Yicheng-Lu-llll

Flyteadmin

• Add logs and stats to sync loop in flyteorg/flyteadmin#573 by Haytham Abuelfutuh
• Fix utf-8 encoding issues with trimmed error messages in flyteorg/flyteadmin#569 by Katrina Rogan
• Tiny url improvements in flyteorg/flyteadmin#565 by Yee Hing Tong
• Update startedAt timestamp only if not set in flyteorg/flyteadmin#567 pmahindrakar-oss
• Save execution namespace in system metadata in flyteorg/flyteadmin#568 by Katrina Rogan

Flyteconsole

• fix: navlink in flyteorg/flyteconsole#772 by 4nalog
• fix: bump version for console in flyteorg/flyteconsole#769 by 4nalog
• fix: preserve domain when navigating using sidebar in flyteorg/flyteconsole#768 by 4nalog
• fix: dynamic-node-tasks in flyteorg/flyteconsole#765 by 4nalog
• chore: hide map task runtime info in https://github.com/flyteorg/flyteconsole7/66 by Carina Ursu
• Bug: union val missing for LP relaunch in flyteorg/flyteconsole#762 by Frank Flitton
• Feature: Fullview Flyte Deck modal in flyteorg/flyteconsole#764 by Frank Flitton
• chore: add item when mapped task in flyteorg/flyteconsole#761 by Jason Porter
• Bug: Execution Page's back button returns Workflows route from Launch Plan route https://github.com/flyteorg/flyteconsolepatch in flyteorg/flyteconsole#760 by Frank Flitton

Flytepropeller

• Register gRPC plugin after reading configmap in flyteorg/flytepropeller#564 by Kevin Su
• Not stripping structure from literal types in flyteorg/flytepropeller#571 by Dan Rammer
• Bump flyteplugins to v1.0.63 in flyteorg/flytepropeller#568 by bstadlbauer
• bumped flyteplugins in flyteorg/flytepropeller#566 by Dan Rammer
• Use correct k8 client in flyteorg/flytepropeller#563 by sonjaer