Prepare release 1.7.2

Author: ArBridgeman

doc/changes/changes_1.7.2.md

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 # 1.7.2 - 2025-07-31
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+# Summary
+
+GPU runners throughout our various Python repositories were breaking due to underlying
+changes in the runners. This affected the usage of the `python-environment/action`,
+and it could be resolved by adding `--break-system-packages` to the `pip install`
+command. The behavior then is to default to the user installation, which avoids
+the global issues the GPU runners were running into.
+
+# Bugfix
+
+* Modified pip install statement to include --break-system-packages