Prepare release notes for v2.2.0-beta.0

Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <derek@mcg.dev>

releases/v2.2.0-beta.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# commit to be tagged for new release
+commit = "HEAD"
+
+project_name = "containerd"
+github_repo = "containerd/containerd"
+match_deps = "^github.com/(containerd/[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)$"
+ignore_deps = [ "github.com/containerd/containerd" ]
+
+# previous release
+previous = "v2.1.0"
+
+pre_release = true
+
+preface = """\
+The second minor release of containerd 2.x focuses on continued stability alongside
+new features and improvements. This is the second time-based released for containerd.
+
+This is a beta release and some functionality is still under development.
+"""
+
+postface = """\
+### Which file should I download?
+* `containerd-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz`:         ✅Recommended. Dynamically linked with glibc 2.35 (Ubuntu 22.04).
+* `containerd-static-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz`:  Statically linked. Expected to be used on Linux distributions that do not use glibc >= 2.35. Not position-independent.
+
+In addition to containerd, typically you will have to install [runc](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/releases)
+and [CNI plugins](https://github.com/containernetworking/plugins/releases) from their official sites too.
+
+See also the [Getting Started](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/main/docs/getting-started.md) documentation.
+"""

version/version.go

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ var (
 	Package = "github.com/containerd/containerd/v2"
 
 	// Version holds the complete version number. Filled in at linking time.
-	Version = "2.1.0+unknown"
+	Version = "2.2.0-beta+unknown"
 
 	// Revision is filled with the VCS (e.g. git) revision being used to build
 	// the program at linking time.