chore: prepare release 1.7.10 (#889)

* feat: (producer) thread level healthchecks (#886)

* feat: deep healthchecks of threads

* fix: add failback time format to handle some old timestamps in production

* fix: single entities were not triggering check_updates() when using the KernelAPI (#888)

aether-producer/aether/producer/kernel_api.py

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ def check_updates(self, realm, schema_id=None, schema_name=None, modified=''):
             )
         try:
             response = self._fetch(url=url, realm=realm)
-            return response['count'] > 1
+            return response['count'] > 0
         except Exception:
             logger.warning('Could not access kernel API to check for updates')
             return False