bump: release v1.2.0-rc.1

[Two-Hearts]

Release

This would mean tagging b806f58f501628064b117c8b4299547dc67a742e as v1.2.0-rc.1 to release.

Vote

We need at least 4 approvals from 7 maintainers to release notation v1.2.0-rc.1.

• [x] Junjie Gao (@JeyJeyGao)
• [ ] Milind Gokarn (@gokarnm)
• [x] Patrick Zheng (@Two-Hearts)
• [x] Pritesh Bandi (@priteshbandi)
• [ ] Rakesh Gariganti (@rgnote)
• [x] Shiwei Zhang (@shizhMSFT)
• [ ] Yi Zha (@yizha1)

What's Changed

• build: add support for armv7 binary release by @lmussier in https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/pull/956
• chore: move tsa url print out behind -v flag by @Two-Hearts in https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/pull/996
• feat: update inspect command with timestamping by @Two-Hearts in https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/pull/998
• build(deps): Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.23.0 to 0.27.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/pull/999
• build(deps): Bump ossf/scorecard-action from 2.3.3 to 2.4.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/pull/1000
• build(deps): Bump github/codeql-action from 3.25.13 to 3.25.15 by @dependabot in https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/pull/1001
• refactor: update verifier by @Two-Hearts in https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/pull/1002
• refactor!: remove blob sign/verify related contents by @Two-Hearts in https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/pull/1011
• bump: bump up dependencies for release-1.2 by @Two-Hearts in https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/pull/1014

Full Changelog: https://github.com/notaryproject/notation/compare/v1.2.0-beta.1...b806f58f501628064b117c8b4299547dc67a742e

[codecov[bot]]

Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests :white_check_mark:

Project coverage is 72.01%. Comparing base (2c9f8a6) to head (b806f58). Report is 2 commits behind head on release-1.2.

Additional details and impacted files

```diff @@ Coverage Diff @@ ## release-1.2 #1017 +/- ## ============================================ Coverage 72.01% 72.01% ============================================ Files 46 46 Lines 2287 2287 ============================================ Hits 1647 1647 Misses 440 440 Partials 200 200 ```

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