🚀 Release v1.7.2

Signed-off-by: Vishal Anarase <[email protected]>

Author: vishalanarase

CHANGELOG/v1.7.2.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)
+
+## Highlights
+
+* Kubernetes v1.30 is now supported
+
+## Changes since v1.7.1
+## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Overview
+- 12 new commits merged
+- 3 bugs fixed 🐛
+
+## :bug: Bug Fixes
+- clusterctl: Ensure cert-manager objects get applied before other provider objects (#10503)
+- e2e: Test: Ensure all ownerRef assertions for some Kind are evaluated (#10592)
+- e2e: Test: filter cluster-wide objects asserted in ResourceVersion tests to exclude objects of parallel tests (#10570)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+- API: Allow users to specify webhook server cert and key names (#10581)
+- clusterctl: Add Tinkerbell to the providers list (#10516)
+- clusterctl: Bump cert-manager to 1.14.5 (#10517)
+- clusterctl: Clusterctl/client/cert_manager: improve shouldUpgrade (#10497)
+- clusterctl: Feat: add support for the linode-linode infrastructure provider to clusterctl (#10512)
+- e2e: Ensure resourceVersions are stable (#10548)
+- MULTIPLE_AREAS[KCP/MachineSet]: Flag for old infra machine naming (#10587)
+
+:book: Additionally, there have been 2 contributions to our documentation and book. (#10535, #10536) 
+
+## Dependencies
+
+### Added
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Changed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Removed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊