Merge pull request #10015 from willie-yao/release-1.5.5

🌱 Release v1.5.5

CHANGELOG/v1.5.5.md

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+## 👌 Kubernetes version support
+
+- Management Cluster: v1.24.x -> v1.28.x
+- Workload Cluster: v1.22.x -> v1.28.x
+
+[More information about version support can be found here](https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/reference/versions.html)
+
+## Changes since v1.5.4
+## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Overview
+- 9 new commits merged
+- 1 feature addition ✨
+- 4 bugs fixed 🐛
+
+## :sparkles: New Features
+- Control-plane: KCP: Allow mutation of all fields that should be mutable (#9884)
+
+## :bug: Bug Fixes
+- clusterctl: Validate no objects exist from CRDs before deleting them (#9835)
+- e2e: Test: wait for topology to get rolled out before continuing with scaling checks (#9828)
+- MachinePool: Fix TestReconcileMachinePoolScaleToFromZero flakes (#9823)
+- Testing: SSA: fix flaky test TestPatch/Test patch with Machine (#9916)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+- Dependency: Bump golang.org/x/crypto to v0.17.0 (#9944)
+- Dependency: Bump to Go 1.20.12 (#9842)
+- e2e: Rename scale test to drop [Scale] tag (#9977)
+
+:book: Additionally, there has been 1 contribution to our documentation and book. (#9877) 
+
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊