[release-2.7.x] Prepare changelog and release notes for 2.7.1 (#7897)

Backport 99b7c14 from #7895

Co-authored-by: Trevor Whitney <[email protected]>

CHANGELOG.md

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 * Go Version: 1.19
 
+## 2.7.1
+
+#### Loki
+
+##### Fixes
+* [7453](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/7453) **periklis**: Add single compactor http client for delete and gennumber clients
+
+##### Changes
+* [7877](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/7877)A **trevorwhitney**: Due to a known bug with experimental new delete mode feature, the default delete mode has been changed to `filter-only`.
+
 ## 2.7.0
 
 #### Loki
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 * [6952](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6952) **DylanGuedes**: Experimental: Introduce a new feature named stream sharding.
 
 ##### Fixes
-* [7453](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/7453) **periklis**: Add single compactor http client for delete and gennumber clients
 * [7426](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/7426) **periklis**: Add missing compactor delete client tls client config
 * [7238](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/7328) **periklis**: Fix internal server bootstrap for query frontend
 * [7288](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/7288) **ssncferreira**: Fix query mapping in AST mapper `rangemapper` to support the new `VectorExpr` expression.

docs/sources/release-notes/v2-7.md

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 As always, please read the [upgrade guide](../../upgrading/#270) before upgrading Loki.
 
 ## Bug fixes
+
+### 2.7.1 
+
+* Add single compactor http client for delete and gennumber clients. This fixes a bug caused by the accidental introduction of different HTTP clients for compactor and gennumber operations that resulted in 404s when only the gennumber middlewares were enabled:
+
+    ```console
+    level=error ts=2022-10-18T14:13:41.598649348Z caller=delete_requests_client.go:211 msg="error getting delete requests from the store" err="unexpected status code: 404"
+    ts=2022-10-18T14:13:41.598697295Z caller=spanlogger.go:80 user=application level=error msg="failed loading deletes for user" err="unexpected status code: 404"
+    ```
+
+* Change default deletion mode to `filter-only` on account of the bug (see below).
+
+#### Known Issues
+
+* There is a bug with the experimental deletion mode in 2.6.x and 2.7.x that in some cases can cause the wrong chunks to be deleted. As a result we have changed the default deletion mode to `filter-only` until this bug has been addressed.