Prepare v0.69.0 release

Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Narkar <anarkar4387@gmail.com>

CHANGELOG.md

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 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This
 project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
-## Unreleased
+## 0.69.0
+
+This release contains a mix of features, bugfixes and necessary tooling and test changes required to support the upcoming OPA `1.0` release.
+
+### Topdown and Rego
+
+- Future-proofing tests in the `ast`, `topdown`, `rego` etc. packages to be `1.0` compatible (authored by @johanfylling)
+- Add a new inter-query value cache to cache data across queries ([#6908](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/6908)) authored by @ashutosh-narkar reported by @amirsalarsafaei
+- ast: Attach annotation to static part of rule ref ([#7050](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/7050)) authored by @anderseknert
+- ast: Make `Module.String()` include `if`/`contains` for v1 modules ([#6973](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/6973)) authored by @johanfylling reported by @nikpivkin
+- topdown/http: Stop `http.send` latency timer when an error is encountered ([#7007](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/7007)) authored by @lukyer
+- ast/compile: Refactor local variable replacement and replace declared variables in `with`'s target ([#6979](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/6979)) authored by @srenatus reported by @bluebrown
+- ast: Update type checker to cache schema types ([#6970](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/6970)) authored by @nikpivkin
+- test: Fix indentation in a YAML test case ([#7039](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/7039)) authored by @matajoh
+- format: Bracketing keyword ref elements in formatter output ([#7010](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/7010)) authored by @johanfylling
+
+### Runtime, Tooling, SDK
+
+- Future-proofing tests in the `sdk`, `downlaod`, `server` , `cmd` etc. packages to be `1.0` compatible (authored by @johanfylling)
+- cmd: Add `--v0-compatible` flag to make OPA behave as `v0.x` post `v1.0` release ([#7065](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/7065)) authored by @johanfylling
+- util: Strip  UTF-8 BOM from input JSON when found ([#6988](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/6988)) authored by @anderseknert reported by @adhilto
+- plugins/rest: Support reading AWS token from the filesystem for the AWS container credential provider ([#6997](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/6997)) authored by @cmaddalozzo
+- debug: Add `RegoOption` launch option to debugger for setting custom Rego options ([#7045](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/7045)) authored by @johanfylling
+- debug: Always include `Input` and `Data` variable scopes to ease discoverability of the scopes ([#7074](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/7074)) authored by @johanfylling
+- wasm: Fix arithmetic comparison for large numbers, caused by an integer overflow ([#6991](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/6991)) authored by @Ptroger
+
+### Docs, Website, Ecosystem
+
+- Add Marsh McLennan to adopters ([#7060](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/7060)) authored by @anderseknert reported by @pratimsc
+- Add APIwiz to adopters ([#7067](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/7067)) authored by @anderseknert
+- docs: Fix misnomer in OPA-Istio tutorial to document Istio's AuthorizationPolicy API ([#6984](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/6984)) authored by @tjons
+- docs: Readme updates to highlight more up-to-date information about OPA ([#7066](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/7066)) authored by @charlieegan3
+- docs: Update documentation to show Debug API uses ([#7036](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/7036))  authored by @charlieegan3
+- docs: Simplify the OPA-Istio tutorial example policy ([#7059](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/7059)) authored by @anderseknert
+- website: Update policy examples on the OPA home page to be `1.0` compatible  ([#7033](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/7033))  authored by @charlieegan3
+
+### Miscellaneous
+
+- build: Bump github.com/golang/glob, remove replace directive ([#7024](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/7024)) authored by @srenatus reported by @mmannerm
+- Dependency updates; notably:
+  - build(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.21 to 1.7.22
+  - build(deps): bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.20.2 to 1.20.4
+  - build(deps): bump go.uber.org/automaxprocs from 1.5.3 to 1.6.0
+  - build(deps): bump golang.org/x/net from 0.28.0 to 0.29.0
+  - build(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.66.0 to 1.67.0
+  - build(go): bump 1.22.5 to 1.23.1 ([#7006](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/7006)) authored by @srenatus
 
 ## 0.68.0