chore: [main] chore(release-2.9.x): release 2.9.7 (#12553)

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CHANGELOG.md

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 * **loki** Background Cache: Fixes a bug that is causing the background queue size to be incremented twice for each enqueued item. [11776](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/11776)
 * **loki**: Parsing: String array elements were not being parsed correctly in JSON processing [11921](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/11921)
 
+## [2.9.7](https://github.com/grafana/loki/compare/v2.9.6...v2.9.7) (2024-04-10)
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+### Bug Fixes
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+* Bump go to 1.21.9 and build image to 0.33.1 ([#12542](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/12542)) ([efc4d2f](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/efc4d2f009e04ecb1db58a637b89b33aa234de34))
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 ## [2.9.6](https://github.com/grafana/loki/compare/v2.9.5...v2.9.6) (2024-03-21)
 
 ### Bug Fixes