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containerd 1.6.8

Welcome to the v1.6.8 release of containerd!

The eighth patch release for containerd 1.6 fixes a regression in the release
build binaries which limited the environments they could be run in.

See the changelog for complete list of changes

Please try out the release binaries and report any issues at
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues.

### Contributors

* Akihiro Suda
* Derek McGowan
* Samuel Karp
* Phil Estes

### Changes
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* [release/1.6] Prepare release notes for v1.6.8 ([#7263](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7263))
  * [`3364f411e`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/3364f411eb1503bac9d1ea09eab45660298845fc) Prepare release notes for v1.6.8
* [release/1.6] release workflow: increase timeout to 30 minutes & remove Go setup action ([#7261](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7261))
  * [`390920429`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/390920429580f4d36361ea7f395d062c31e3b49a) release workflow: remove Go setup action
  * [`cf48ba6e8`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/cf48ba6e8b4be7036bde1e1963594436e8d1cc0c) release workflow: increase timeout to 30 minutes
* [release/1.6] release: rollback Ubuntu to 18.04 (except for riscv64) ([#7260](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/7260))
  * [`57873e652`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/57873e652f495d1644a7cc99498cb9d60fce2a9e) release: rollback Ubuntu to 18.04 (except for riscv64)
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### Dependency Changes

This release has no dependency changes

Previous release can be found at [v1.6.7](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v1.6.7)