Bump conifer to 1.7

[thesps]

Bump conifer to 1.7

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @thesps for branch IB/CMSSW_15_1_X/master.

@cmsbuild, @iarspider, @smuzaffar can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@antoniovilela, @mandrenguyen, @rappoccio, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.
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[smuzaffar]

please test

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Failed Tests: UnitTests
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-f37e30/46422/summary.html
COMMIT: a4f8cf8
CMSSW: CMSSW_15_1_X_2025-05-28-1100/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/9898/46422/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:

• @cms-sw ROCM: do not set --gcc-toolchain/--target via toolfile #9895

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-f37e30/46422/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-f37e30/46422/git-merge-result

Unit Tests

I found 1 errors in the following unit tests:

---> test SagittaBiasNtuplizer had ERRORS

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 1 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 8 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 50
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 4041063
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 3
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 4041040
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 49 files compared)
• Checked 215 log files, 184 edm output root files, 50 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[smuzaffar]

+externals

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next IB/CMSSW_15_1_X/master IBs (but tests are reportedly failing). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @sextonkennedy, @mandrenguyen, @rappoccio, @antoniovilela (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)