chore(main): release 7.1.0

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7.1.0 (2026-01-30)

Features

• NODE-5393: aws4 no longer required for AWS authentication (#4824) (0f46db8)
• NODE-7121: prevent connection churn on backpressure errors when establishing connections (#4800) (4cb2b87)
• NODE-7122: exponential backoff between retries in convenient transaction API (#4765) (e70fdc9)
• NODE-7304: remove usages in src of promisify (#4799) (761b9bf)
• NODE-7306: Replace global process with import node:process (#4820) (cc503cb)
• NODE-7310: Replace process.arch with os.arch() (#4823) (f0af829)
• NODE-7311: Replace process.platform with os.platform() (#4822) (c58ca1f)
• NODE-7317: use BSON.NumberUtils to determine endianness (#4808) (4e9467e)
• NODE-7319: update allowed hosts list with *.mongo.com (#4802) (bfb7160)
• NODE-7330: deprecate RenameCollectionOptions.new_collection (#4815) (a96fa26)
• NODE-7333: add support for deprioritized servers to all topologies (#4821) (a4211e7)

Bug Fixes

• NODE-7290: use valueof for error code check (#4791) (1cc3d1c)
• NODE-7298: ensure commonWireVersion is computed from server maxWireVersion (#4805) (2b2366d)
• NODE-7307: Replace node:process.hrtime() with performance.now() (#4816) (ae2e037)
• NODE-7308: replace process.nextTick with queueMicrotask (#4817) (b1b6e81)

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