created changelog for 1.7.16

Author: shoenig

CHANGELOG.md

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+## 1.7.16 Enterprise (December 18, 2024)
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+SECURITY:
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+* api: sanitize the SignedIdentities in allocations to prevent privilege escalation through unredacted workload identity token impersonation associated with ACL policies. [[GH-24683](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24683)]
+* security: Added more host environment variables to the default deny list for tasks [[GH-24540](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24540)]
+* security: Explicitly set 'Content-Type' header to mitigate XSS vulnerability [[GH-24489](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24489)]
+* security: add executeTemplate to default template function_denylist [[GH-24541](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24541)]
+
+BUG FIXES:
+
+* agent: Fixed a bug where `retry_join` gave up after a single failure, rather than retrying until max attempts had been reached [[GH-24561](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24561)]
+* cli: Ensure the `operator autopilot health` command only outputs JSON when the `json` flag is supplied [[GH-24655](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24655)]
+* consul: Fixed a bug where failures when syncing Consul checks could panic the Nomad agent [[GH-24513](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24513)]
+* consul: Fixed a bug where non-root Nomad agents could not recreate a task's Consul token on task restart [[GH-24410](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24410)]
+* csi: Fixed a bug where drivers that emit multiple topology segments would cause placements to fail [[GH-24522](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24522)]
+* csi: Removed redundant namespace output from volume status command [[GH-24432](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24432)]
+* discovery: Fixed a bug where IPv6 addresses would not be accepted from cloud autojoin [[GH-24649](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24649)]
+* drivers: fix executor leak when drivers error starting tasks [[GH-24495](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24495)]
+* executor: validate executor on reattach to avoid possibility of killing non-Nomad processes [[GH-24538](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24538)]
+* fix: handles consul template re-renders on client restart [[GH-24399](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24399)]
+* networking: use a tmpfs location for the state of CNI IPAM plugin used by bridge mode, to fix a bug where allocations would fail to restore after host reboot [[GH-24650](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24650)]
+* scheduler: take all assigned cpu cores into account instead of only those part of the largest lifecycle [[GH-24304](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24304)]
+* vault: Fixed a bug where expired secret leases were treated as non-fatal and retried [[GH-24409](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24409)]
+* windows: Restore process accounting logic from Nomad 1.6.x [[GH-24494](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24494)]
+
 ## 1.7.15 (November 8, 2024)
 
 SECURITY: