v1.2.1-rc0

What's Changed

• [VL][1.2] Upgrade GHA artifacts version to 3 by @weiting-chen in #7293
• [VL] Port CI changes to branch-1.2 and pick simdjson related fix by @PHILO-HE in #7314
• [CORE][1.2] Bump branch-1.2 version to 1.2.1-SNAPSHOT by @weiting-chen in #7290
• [VL] Follow-up fix for #7314 on branch-1.2: skip data gen in oom test by @PHILO-HE in #7329
• [VL][1.2] Install devtoolset-9 for centos7 build native lib GHA by @wForget in #7678
• [GLUTEN-7037][VL][1.2] Add dwarf dependency to folly when building with vcpkg by @wForget in #7699
• [CK][1.2] Support trigger CK Backend CI/CD in branch1.2 by @weiting-chen in #7936
• [VL][1.2] Port 6563 6679 for build options and collectQueryExecutionFallbackSummary fix by @weiting-chen in #7919
• [VL][1.2] Port 6432 6657 for Celeborn bug fix in branch 1.2 by @weiting-chen in #7922
• [VL][1.2] Port #6573 #7025 #7132 by @weiting-chen in #7973
• [VL][1.2] Port #6560 #6569 #6730 #7117 for vcpkg issue fix by @weiting-chen in #7974
• [VL][1.2] Port #7121 #7448 by @weiting-chen in #7988
• [VL] Branch 1.2: Backport fixes for #7243 by @zhztheplayer in #7943
• [GLUTEN-7126][CORE][1.2] Fix issue that unsupported join type in BNLJ is not fallback by @ccat3z in #7569
• [GLUTEN-7126][VL][1.2] Port Fix shuffle spill triggered by evicting buffers during stop (#6422) by @kecookier in #7991
• [GLUTEN-7126][VL][1.2] Port #6698 #7525 #7560 for Uniffle bug fix by @weiting-chen in #7994
• [VL] Branch 1.2: Port #8047 to fix libelf link by @zhztheplayer in #8059
• [VL][Branch-1.2] Port #8034 & #8027 for fixing march flag setting and #8042 for fixing GHA failure on centos-7 by @PHILO-HE in #8075
• [CORE][BRANCH-1.2] Port #7861 to fix OOM in shuffle writer by @ccat3z in #8078
• [1.2] Preparing for Gltuen v1.2.1-rc0 by @weiting-chen in #8110

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.2.1-rc0