Release 7.x-1.7-rc1 with all of these enumerated changes

Tagged 1.6 because people were reporting issues in 1.5 that have been fixed in 1.6-rc3 , so I decided to tag 1.6

Since I lack project privileges for branch creation and no one noticed, going with 1.7-rc strategy instead of 2.x

ok so 1.6 seems to be a very successful release, PHP 8.0, 8.1 and PHP 8.2 tests all passing. There's over 5000 upgrades using 1.6.

I made this release because there were numerous bugs in 1.5 and I wanted to offer to everyone an easy (low risk) upgrade for PHP 8.0, PHP 8.1 and PHP 8.2 compatibility. I haven't had any reports of problem with 1.6. All of these commits were well ridden multi year issues except the PHP 8.1/8.2 changes I made which were pretty straight forward.

In follow up from 1.6, Joel Pittet asked for a feature to be committed, I put it in the 7.x-1.x dev branch, it's not in a tagged release.
📌 Feeds integration: support mapping option "language" Fixed

I've upgraded one of my bilingual documentation sites to Drupal 7.94 and it's using the latest contrib modules and running PHP 8.2, it's super fast and working very well.

With the large install base of Drupal 7 out there I'm sure many will continue to upgrade and take advantage of the performance and scalability benefits of using PHP 8.2 without breaking the bank to upgrade their sites.

Going with this one: 🌱 Plan for 7.x-1.10 Active

@joseph.olstad Thanks for your hard work.