v1.2.0

🆕 What's new:

• UI: Allow commit message and metadata in merge action (#6897)
• API: CreateRepository check if repository exists before trying to validate storage namespace (#6967)
• lakectl: Add commit params to merge command (#6892)
• Optimization - Reduce DynamoDB and CosmosDB calls by extending current range to include additional information (#6983)

🐛 Bugs fixed:

• Fix - Lakefs crashing when using database.type=”dynamodb” and scylladb as a database (#6924)
• Change 'committer' field from UserID to Email, when Email is available (#6912)
• Use Buf CLI to compile our proto files (#6784)
• Log time.Duration twice in all modes, as string and as nanoseconds (#6934)
• External auth remove required id from user model (#6902)