prep release: v1.61.7

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Note

When approved, this PR will merge into the 1.61.7 branch which will — upon being approved itself — merge into main.

Things to review in this PR:

• Changelog correctness (There is a preview below, but it is not necessarily the most up to date. See the Files Changed for the true reality.)
• Version bumps
• That it targets the right release branch (1.61.7 in this case!).

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🔍 Debuggability

Log whether safe-listing enforcement was skipped (Issue #7509)

When logging unknown operations encountered during safe-listing, include information about whether enforcement was skipped. This will help distinguish between truly problematic external operations (where enforcement_skipped is false) and internal operations that are intentionally allowed to bypass safelisting (where enforcement_skipped is true).

By @DaleSeo in #7509

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⚠️ Docs preview not attached to branch

The preview was not built because the PR's base branch 1.61.7 is not in the list of sources.

An Apollo team member can comment one of the following commands to dictate which branch to attach the preview to:

• !docs set-base-branch 1.x
• !docs set-base-branch dev

Build ID: 335551ca3cdc12d743adbc0b