🚀 Release v1.9.7

Signed-off-by: chandankumar4 <[email protected]>

Author: chandankumar4

CHANGELOG/v1.9.7.md

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+## 👌 Kubernetes version support
+
+- Management Cluster: v1.28.x -> v1.32.x
+- Workload Cluster: v1.26.x -> v1.32.x
+
+## Changes since v1.9.6
+## :chart_with_upwards_trend: Overview
+- 8 new commits merged
+- 2 feature additions ✨
+- 1 bug fixed 🐛
+
+## :sparkles: New Features
+- Machine: Sync machine annotations to nodes (#11980)
+
+## :bug: Bug Fixes
+- clusterctl: Clusterctl upgrade hangs for a time on CRD migration when new version contains a number of new CRDs (#12003)
+
+## :seedling: Others
+- CI: Github: bump md-link check to 1.0.17 (#12078)
+- Devtools: Disable TLS verification for Podman pushes inside of Tilt (#12008)
+- e2e: Ensure to always preload kindnetd to not hit ImagePullBackoff (#11995)
+- KCP: Bump corefile-migration library to v1.0.26 (#12063)
+
+:book: Additionally, there has been 1 contribution to our documentation and book. (#12090) 
+
+## Dependencies
+
+### Added
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+### Changed
+- github.com/coredns/corefile-migration: [v1.0.25 → v1.0.26](https://github.com/coredns/corefile-migration/compare/v1.0.25...v1.0.26)
+
+### Removed
+_Nothing has changed._
+
+_Thanks to all our contributors!_ 😊