diff --git a/content/manuals/engine/release-notes/29.md b/content/manuals/engine/release-notes/29.md
index e3d9d2cb024..4adbd9443eb 100644
--- a/content/manuals/engine/release-notes/29.md
+++ b/content/manuals/engine/release-notes/29.md
@@ -22,6 +22,47 @@ For more information about:
 - Deprecated and removed features, see [Deprecated Engine Features](../deprecated.md).
 - Changes to the Engine API, see [Engine API version history](/reference/api/engine/version-history/).
 
+## 29.7.0-rc.1
+
+{{< release-date date="2026-07-27" >}}
+
+For a full list of pull requests and changes in this release, refer to the relevant GitHub milestones:
+
+- [docker/cli, 29.7.0 milestone](https://github.com/docker/cli/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A29.7.0)
+- [moby/moby, 29.7.0 milestone](https://github.com/moby/moby/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A29.7.0)
+
+### New
+
+- Add an experimental `embedded-containerd` feature that runs containerd inside the daemon process instead of as a separate managed process. [moby/moby#52898](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/52898)
+
+### Bug fixes and enhancements
+
+- Add the `default-stop-timeout` daemon option to configure the stop timeout assigned to containers without an explicit timeout. [moby/moby#53146](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/53146)
+- containerd image store: Fix daemon-wide concurrent download and upload limits for pulls and pushes not being honored. [moby/moby#53081](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/53081)
+  - To preserve the previous unlimited startup behavior, configure "max-concurrent-downloads" and ""max-concurrent-uploads" to 0
+- Fix `docker cp -a` using the wrong file owner when copying files into containers with user namespace remapping enabled. [moby/moby#53084](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/53084)
+- Fix `docker stats` reporting all zeros for running Windows containers when using the containerd runtime. [moby/moby#53101](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/53101)
+- Fix a typo in the `docker create --pull` flag description. [docker/cli#7103](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/7103)
+- Improve the error returned when a container hostname exceeds Linux's 64-byte limit. [moby/moby#53121](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/53121)
+- Mount type `image` is no longer experimental. [moby/moby#52998](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/52998)
+- Prevent live-restored volumes from retaining active mount references when containers exit during daemon startup. [moby/moby#53115](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/53115)
+- Suppress the “No such container” error when `docker rm --force` succeeds for a nonexistent container. [docker/cli#7110](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/7110)
+- Update Go runtime to [1.26.5](https://go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1.26.5). [docker/cli#7087](https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/7087)
+
+### Packaging updates
+
+- Update BuildKit to [v0.32.0-rc2](https://github.com/moby/buildkit/releases/tag/v0.32.0-rc2). [moby/moby#53209](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/53209)
+- Update containerd (static binaries) to [v2.3.3](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v2.3.3). [moby/moby#53050](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/53050)
+- Update runc (in static binaries) to [v1.4.3](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/releases/tag/v1.4.3). [moby/moby#50960](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/50960)
+
+### Networking
+
+- Fix a daemon panic when removing swarm ingress ports after failing to bind an ingress proxy listener. [moby/moby#53022](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/53022)
+
+### Rootless
+
+- Keep the cgroup mount for containers with `--net=host`. [moby/moby#52318](https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/52318)
+
 ## 29.6.2
 
 {{< release-date date="2026-07-16" >}}
diff --git a/hack/moby-sync-release.sh b/hack/moby-sync-release.sh
index dc1192c4872..edce7938574 100755
--- a/hack/moby-sync-release.sh
+++ b/hack/moby-sync-release.sh
@@ -18,9 +18,12 @@ docs_notes=$(mktemp   -t new)
 github_notes=$(mktemp -t old)
 
 # Get the release notes from the docs.
-grep -A 10000 "## ${version}" "content/manuals/engine/release-notes/${major_version}.md" | \
-    grep -m 2 -A 0 -B 10000 '^## ' | \
-    sed '$d' | \
+awk -v heading="## ${version}" '
+    $0 == heading { found = 1; print; next }
+    found && /^## / { exit }
+    found { print }
+    END { if (!found) exit 1 }
+' "content/manuals/engine/release-notes/${major_version}.md" | \
     sed '/{{< release-date /{N;d;}' \
     > "$docs_notes" || { echo "Release notes for ${version} not found" && exit 1; }
 
diff --git a/hugo.yaml b/hugo.yaml
index 729943cd99c..5c4f4601fc4 100644
--- a/hugo.yaml
+++ b/hugo.yaml
@@ -165,10 +165,10 @@ params:
   # Latest version of the Docker Engine API
   latest_engine_api_version: "1.55"
   # Latest version of Docker Engine
-  docker_ce_version: "29.6.1"
+  docker_ce_version: "29.7.0"
   # Previous version of the Docker Engine
   # (Used to show e.g., "latest" and "latest"-1 in engine install examples
-  docker_ce_version_prev: "29.6.0"
+  docker_ce_version_prev: "29.6.2"
   # Latest Docker Compose version
   compose_version: "v5.1.2"
   # Latest BuildKit version