docs(release): curated v1.7.106-alpha changelog + What's New; pin ISO FIPS to v0.4.1

The ISO built FIPS from an unpinned --depth 1 clone of upstream main, so
every build shipped whatever happened to be on main that day. Pin to
v0.4.1 via a FIPS_VERSION build arg — the version fips/config.rs renders
its typed config against, and the one validated in the field on .198 and
the thinkpad. The pin lands inside the STEP 1 recipe-hash range, so the
cached rootfs correctly invalidates on the next build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<p>Nodes on the same network now find each other directly. Your node announces itself on your local network and connects straight to other Archipelago nodes nearby, instead of every connection having to be introduced by a public rendezvous server out on the internet. Peers in the same home or office stay connected to each other even when that server is unreachable, and they reach each other faster.</p>
<p>On a phone, the peer files screen tells you how you're connected again. The badge showing whether a peer's files are arriving over the fast mesh or over Tor was only visible on desktop on narrow screens it disappeared entirely. It now appears next to the peer name on mobile too.</p>
<p>Your node's mesh settings can no longer be written in a way that breaks the mesh. The configuration file used to be assembled as free-form text, where one wrong setting would stop the mesh service from starting and quietly drop your node off the network. It's now generated from a checked description of the file, with tests that verify the exact output.</p>
<p>When your node has trouble reaching another node, the logs now record the real reason instead of a generic summary. A failure to open a peer's files previously logged only "Failed to connect to peer" and threw away the actual cause, which made these problems very hard to diagnose. Nothing changes on screen, and no internal detail is exposed.</p>
<p>Behind the scenes: the installer image now builds its mesh component at a fixed, known version instead of whatever upstream had published that day, so two images built from the same source are identical.</p>
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