created changelog for 1.7.18

Author: gulducat

CHANGELOG.md

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+## 1.7.18 (February 11, 2025)
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+SECURITY:
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+* api: sanitize the SignedIdentities in allocations of events to clean the identity token. [[GH-24966](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24966)]
+* build: Updated Go to 1.23.6 [[GH-25041](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/25041)]
+* event stream: fixes vulnerability CVE-2025-0937, where using a wildcard namespace to subscribe to the events API grants a user with "read" capabilites on any namespace, the ability to read events from all namespaces. [[GH-25089](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/25089)]
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+IMPROVEMENTS:
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+* auth: adds `VerboseLogging` option to auth-method config for debugging SSO [[GH-24892](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24892)]
+* event stream: adds ability to authenticate using workload identities [[GH-24849](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24849)]
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+BUG FIXES:
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+* agent: Fixed a bug where Nomad error log messages within syslog showed via the notice priority [[GH-24820](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24820)]
+* agent: Fixed a bug where all syslog entries were marked as notice when using JSON logging format [[GH-24865](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24865)]
+* client: Fixed a bug where temporary RPC errors cause the client to poll for changes more frequently thereafter [[GH-25039](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/25039)]
+* csi: Fixed a bug where volume context from the plugin would be erased on volume updates [[GH-24922](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24922)]
+* networking: check network namespaces on Linux during client restarts and fail the allocation if an existing namespace is invalid [[GH-24658](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24658)]
+* reporting (Enterprise): Updated the reporting metric to utilize node active heartbeat count. [[GH-24919](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24919)]
+* state store: fix for setting correct status for a job version when reverting, and also fixes an issue where jobs were briefly marked dead during restarts [[GH-24974](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24974)]
+* ui: Ensure pending service check blocks are filled [[GH-24818](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24818)]
+* ui: Remove unrequired node read API call when attempting to stream task logs [[GH-24973](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24973)]
+* vault: Fixed a bug where successful renewal was logged as an error [[GH-25040](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/25040)]
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 ## 1.7.17 Enterprise (January 14, 2025)
 
 IMPROVEMENTS: