Prepare Spring Cloud Azure 7.1.0 release

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Release preparation for Spring Cloud Azure 7.1.0 (2026-02-04) with Spring Boot 4.0.2 and Spring Cloud 2025.1.0 compatibility.

Version Updates

• Bumped 55 Spring modules from 7.0.0-beta.2 → 7.1.0 in eng/versioning/version_client.txt
• Upgraded azure-sdk-bom from 1.3.3 → 1.3.4 in spring-cloud-azure-dependencies/pom.xml
• Propagated version changes across all POMs and READMEs via update_versions.py

CHANGELOG Consolidation

• Main sdk/spring/CHANGELOG.md:
  • Added compatibility notes for Spring Boot 4.0.2 and Spring Cloud 2025.1.0
  • Added BOM dependency update section
  • Consolidated bug fixes from Spring Cloud Azure Autoconfigure (OAuth2 JWT Bearer grant duplication, Active Directory ClassNotFoundException) and Appconfiguration Config (connection string validation with disabled config)
  • Added Azure Spring Data Cosmos reference section
• Module CHANGELOGs: Replaced content with references to main CHANGELOG for consistency

Scope

Changes limited to: eng/versioning/version_client.txt, sdk/boms/spring-cloud-azure-dependencies/, sdk/spring/**

Original prompt

RELEASE_VERSION: 7.1.0 AZURE_SDK_BOM_VERSION: 1.3.4 SPRING_BOOT_RANGE: 4.0.2 SPRING_CLOUD_RANGE: 2025.1.0 RELEASE_BRANCH: release/spring-cloud-azure_7.1.0 RELEASE_DATE: 2026-02-04 VERSION-DATE: 710-2026-02-04

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