release-1.7: set VERSION to 1.7.0-rc1

[KristofferC]

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[KristofferC]

Should probably fix #42150 first.

[PallHaraldsson]

It seems #42201 isn't in (its issue on 1.7 milestone) release-1.7 branch, and should, even though you force-pushed.

[KristofferC]

I didn't really understand that.

[aviatesk]

@KristofferC how should we backport #42125 into release-1.7 ?

[KristofferC]

To me that looks like a feature and is pretty late for the feature freeze. Am I wrong in that?

[aviatesk]

Yes, it certainly adds new features (enable constant-prop' to be disabled). But the reason why we want to backport it is that it generalizes and renames @aggressive_constprop, which was introduced in v1.7, and we don't want to release @aggressive_constprop into the wild.

/cc @timholy

[KristofferC]

@aggressive_constprop already looks used in the wild and it is internal anyway. And it doesn't seem hard to silently deprecate @aggresive_constpropinto @constprop :aggressive?

[timholy]

I can easily make PRs against the 6 known packages that use @aggressive_constprop, but I'm fine either way. There's already Compat.@constprop which implements the new interface on Julias that have @aggressive_constprop.

EDIT: trial balloon at JuliaArrays/ArrayInterface.jl#205