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+## 👌 Kubernetes version support
+
+- Management Cluster: v1.25.x -> v1.29.x
+- Workload Cluster: v1.23.x -> v1.29.x
+
+[More information about version support can be found here](https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/reference/versions.html)
+
+## Highlights
+
+* Kubernetes v1.29 is now supported
+
+## Changes since v1.6.0
+## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Overview
+- 30 new commits merged
+- 1 feature addition ✨
+- 9 bugs fixed 🐛
+
+## :sparkles: New Features
+- Control-plane: KCP: Allow mutation of all fields that should be mutable (#9884)
+
+## :bug: Bug Fixes
+- CAPD: Fix ignition to also set the kube-proxy configuration to skip setting sysctls (#9895)
+- clusterctl: Validate no objects exist from CRDs before deleting them (#9834)
+- e2e: Make MachinePools and MachineDeployments optional in ApplyClusterTemplateAndWait (#9962)
+- e2e: Test: Fix finalizers test to not only rely on namespaced name (#10004)
+- e2e: Test: wait for topology to get rolled out before continuing with scaling checks (#9827)
+- IPAM: Fix webhooks using mixed api versions (#9863)
+- Logging: Improve log k/v pairs and a improve/drop a few log lines (#9880)
+- MachinePool: Fix TestReconcileMachinePoolScaleToFromZero flakes (#9822)
+- Testing: SSA: fix flaky test TestPatch/Test patch with Machine (#9915)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+- CI: Bump kubebuilder envtest to 1.29.0 (#10014)
+- Dependency: Bump golang.org/x/crypto to v0.17.0 (#9943)
+- Dependency: Bump to Go 1.20.12 (#9841)
+- Dependency: Go.mod: bump github.com/cloudflare/circl to v1.3.7 (#10002)
+- e2e: Add DeepCopy method for E2EConfig (#9989)
+- e2e: Add test util to resolve Kubernetes versions (#9996)
+- e2e: Bump cluster-autoscaler to v1.29.0 (#9948)
+- e2e: Drop duplicated scale test (#9976)
+- e2e: Make etcd and CoreDNS optional in upgrade and self-hosted tests (#9965)
+- e2e: Test/framework add WatchDaemonSetLogsByLabelSelector method (#9994)
+- Testing: add dynamic finalizer assertions for e2e framework (#10003)]
+- Testing: v1.29: Prepare quickstart, capd and tests for the new release including kind bump (#9890)
+
+:book: Additionally, there have been 8 contributions to our documentation and book. (#9815, #9816, #9824, #9830, #9878, #9902, #9951, #9979) 
+
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊