Merge pull request #10488 from chandankumar4/release-v1.7.1

🚀 Release v1.7.1

CHANGELOG/v1.7.1.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 v1.7.0
+## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Overview
+- 11 new commits merged
+- 2 bugs fixed 🐛
+
+## :bug: Bug Fixes
+- CAPD: Verify lb config after writing it (#10461)
+- e2e: also gather junit reports in case of errors observed from ginkgo (#10494)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+- Dependency: Bump envtest to v1.30.0 (#10481)
+- e2e: Export more func in test/e2e/common.go (#10447)
+- Testing: Bump Kubernetes in tests to v1.30.0 and claim support for v1.30 (#10465)
+
+:book: Additionally, there have been 6 contributions to our documentation and book. (#10446, #10448, #10451, #10456, #10470, #10491) 
+
+## Dependencies
+
+### Added
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Changed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Removed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊