Merge pull request #11268 from chandankumar4/release-v1.7.7

🚀 Release v1.7.7

Author: k8s-ci-robot

CHANGELOG/v1.7.7.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 v1.7.6
+## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Overview
+- 6 new commits merged
+- 1 bug fixed 🐛
+
+## :bug: Bug Fixes
+- CI: Hack: fix the shell used when running pr-verify (#11171)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+- CI: Pr-verify: use env var for passing the PR title (#11231)
+- CI: Replace kubebuilder-release-tools with new workflow (#11168)
+- CI: Switch to using ECR mirror for trivy DB repo in weekly security scan (#11262)
+- clusterctl: Bump cert manager to v1.16.0 (#11265)
+- clusterctl: Update RKE2 provider URL (#11226)
+
+## Dependencies
+
+### Added
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Changed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Removed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊