Merge pull request #11040 from rajankumary2k/v1.7.5

🚀 Release v1.7.5

CHANGELOG/v1.7.5.md

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+## 👌 Kubernetes version support
+
+- Management Cluster: v1.26.x -> v1.30.x
+- Workload Cluster: v1.24.x -> v1.30.x
+
+[More information about version support can be found here](https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/reference/versions.html)
+
+## Changes since v1.7.4
+## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Overview
+- 21 new commits merged
+- 1 feature addition ✨
+- 7 bugs fixed 🐛
+
+## :sparkles: New Features
+- ClusterCacheTracker: Add QPS & burst options & flags for ClusterCacheTracker (#10894)
+
+## :bug: Bug Fixes
+- API: Cluster should be provisoned when cpRef and endpoint is set (#10881)
+- API: Drop caBundle from CRDs (#10978)
+- API: When infrastructureRef is nil, set InfrastructureReadyCondition to true (#10921)
+- CAPD: Ensure DockerMachinePool providerIDList is deterministic (#11002)
+- CAPD: Fix nil pointer in dockermachinepool controller (#10877)
+- Machine: Machine Controller should try to retrieve node on delete (#11043)
+- MachineSet: MachineSet should allow scale down operations to proceed when templated don't exist (#10974)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+- API: Partially revert changes for ":bug: Cluster should be provisoned when cpRef and endpoint is set" (#10904)
+- clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to v1.15.2 (#10993)
+- ClusterResourceSet: Ensure CRS controller always add ownerReference to resources (#10895)
+- ClusterResourceSet: Make ClusterResourceSet controller more predictable (#10896)
+- Dependency: Bump docker/docker to v25.0.6 (#11010)
+- e2e: Test/framework: scale up should use allocatable memory (#11008)
+- e2e: Test: stop using Consistently for rollout checks (#11001)
+- e2e: Test: use pause image for autoscaler tests (#10889)
+- e2e: Test: use pause instead of nginx (#10892)
+- Testing: Test/framework: Allow ScaleUp Deployment image to be customized (#10996)
+- util: Allow ClusterCacheTracker to set CacheByObject (#10954)
+
+:book: Additionally, there have been 2 contributions to our documentation and book. (#10859, #10860) 
+
+## Dependencies
+
+### Added
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Changed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Removed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊