Preparing release 1.7.0

Signed-off-by: albertteoh <[email protected]>

CHANGELOG.md

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 Changes by Version
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-1.7.0 (unreleased)
+1.8.0 (unreleased)
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-- Drop support for Java 1.6 and 1.7 (#511) -- Yuri Shkuro
+- nothing yet
+
+
+1.7.0 (2021-10-??)
+-------------------
+
+- Optimize TextMapCodec::contextFromString (#799) -- amirhadadi
+- jaeger-thrift: Shade kotlin runtime + other libraries (#801) -- ohadgur
+- Drop support for Java 1.6 and 1.7 (#802) -- Yuri Shkuro
+- Reduce locking in JaegerSpan (#795) -- amirhadadi
+- Fix repeated error logging for HttpSender (#785) -- Radek Kraus
 
 
 1.6.0 (2021-03-29)