Add release notes for 2.12.0.0 (#2513) (#2515)

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release-notes/opensearch-sql.release-notes-2.12.0.0.md

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+Compatible with OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards Version 2.12.0
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+### Features
+
+
+### Enhancements
+* add InteractiveSession and SessionManager by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2290
+* Add Statement by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2294
+* Add sessionId parameters for create async query API by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2312
+* Implement patch API for datasources by @derek-ho in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2273
+* Integration with REPL Spark job by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2327
+* Add missing tags and MV support by @vamsi-amazon in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2336
+* Bug Fix, support cancel query in running state by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2351
+* Add Session limitation by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2354
+* Handle Describe,Refresh and Show Queries Properly by @vamsi-amazon in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2357
+* Add where clause support in create statement by @dai-chen in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2366
+* Add Flint Index Purging Logic by @kaituo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2372
+* add concurrent limit on datasource and sessions by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2390
+* Redefine Drop Index as logical delete by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2386
+* Added session, statement, emrjob metrics to sql stats api by @vamsi-amazon in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2398
+* Add more metrics and handle emr exception message by @vamsi-amazon in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2422
+* Add cluster name in spark submit params by @noCharger in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2467
+* Add setting plugins.query.executionengine.async_query.enabled by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2510
+
+### Bug Fixes
+* Fix bug, using basic instead of basicauth by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2342
+* create new session if current session not ready by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2363
+* Create new session if client provided session is invalid by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2368
+* Enable session by default by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2373
+* Return 429 for ConcurrencyLimitExceededException by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2428
+* Async query get result bug fix by @dai-chen in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2443
+* Validate session with flint datasource passed in async job request by @kaituo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2448
+* Temporary fixes for build errors by @vamsi-amazon in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2476
+* Add SparkDataType as wrapper for unmapped spark data type by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2492
+* Fix wrong 503 error response code by @vamsi-amazon in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2493
+
+### Documentation
+* [DOC] Configure the Spark metrics properties while creating a s3 Glue Connector by @noCharger in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2504
+
+### Infrastructure
+* Onboard jenkins prod docker images in github actions by @peterzhuamazon in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2404
+* Add publishToMavenLocal to publish plugins in this script by @zane-neo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2461
+* Update to Gradle 8.4 by @reta in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2433
+* Add JDK-21 to GA worklflows by @reta in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2481
+
+### Refactoring
+* Refactoring in Unit Tests by @vamsi-amazon in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2308
+* deprecated job-metadata-index by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2339
+* Refactoring for tags usage in test files. by @vamsi-amazon in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2383
+* Add seder to TransportPPLQueryResponse by @zane-neo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2452
+* Move pplenabled to transport by @zane-neo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2451
+* Async Executor Service Depedencies Refactor by @vamsi-amazon in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2488
+
+### Security
+* Upgrade JSON to 20231013 to fix CVE-2023-5072 by @derek-ho in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2307
+* Block execution engine settings in sql query settings API and add more unit tests by @vamsi-amazon in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2407
+* upgrade okhttp to 4.12.0 by @joshuali925 in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2405
+* Bump aws-java-sdk-core version to 1.12.651 by @penghuo in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2503
+
+## New Contributors
+* @dreamer-89 made their first contribution in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2013
+* @kaituo made their first contribution in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2212
+* @zane-neo made their first contribution in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2452
+* @noCharger made their first contribution in https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/pull/2467
+
+---
+**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/compare/2.11.0.0...2.12.0.0