Bumping version to 1.6.0 and generate changelog

.bumpversion.cfg

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 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 1.6.0rc1
+current_version = 1.6.0
 parse = (?P<major>[\d]+) # major version number
 	\.(?P<minor>[\d]+) # minor version number
 	\.(?P<patch>[\d]+) # patch version number

.changes/1.6.0.md

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+## dbt-redshift 1.6.0 - July 31, 2023
+
+### Breaking Changes
+
+- sslmode behavior has changed. To connect without ssl, set sslmode = disable. To connect using ssl, set sslmode to verify-ca, or verify-full. ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429))
+- Drop support for python 3.7 ([#dbt-core/7082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-core/7082))
+- require latest version of redshift_connector driver ([#492](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/492))
+
+### Features
+
+- Add support for materialized views ([#dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911))
+-  ([#179](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/179))
+- Standardize the _connection_keys and debug_query for `dbt debug`. ([#PR754](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/PR754))
+- add merge as a new incremental strategy for redshift ([#402](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/402))
+- add dbt-redshift portion of dbt_clone functionality ([#504](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/504))
+- Enumerate implemented materialized view features via integration test flags  and change `autorefresh` to `auto_refresh` ([#dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911))
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Adding region as independent param in profiles ([#419](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/419))
+- Fix redshift_connector issue of timing out after 30s ([#427](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/427))
+- Update signature for execute method ([#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'), [#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'))
+- translate psycopg2 sslmode to ssl and sslmode in redshift_connector ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429))
+- Add a new connection param to reenable certain Redshift commands in macros. ([#463](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/463))
+- Escape `%` symbols in table/view/column comments ([#441](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/441))
+- Use smaller default batch size for seeds ([#347](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/347))
+- Get autocommit on by default to restore old semantics users had relied on prior to 1.5. Add tests. ([#425](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/425))
+- remove depdency on postgres__list_relations_without_caching macro ([#488](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/488))
+- remove requirement for region param ([#484](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/484))
+- Remove dependent_projects argument from PartialProject call in unit tests ([#7955](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/7955))
+- Fix regression in redshift-connector==2.0.912 ([#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
+- Fixed unit test that broke following dbt clone work ([#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
+- cast the port as an int ([#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
+- hard pin dep on redshift_connector ([#531](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/531), [#532](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/532))
+- re-enable query commenting ([#536](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/536))
+
+### Under the Hood
+
+- test constraint rendering of foreign key and unique constraints ([#7417](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/7417))
+
+### Dependencies
+
+- Update pytest requirement from ~=7.2 to ~=7.3 ([#414](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/414))
+- Update pytest-xdist requirement from ~=3.2 to ~=3.3 ([#449](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/449))
+- Update types-requests requirement from ~=2.28 to ~=2.31 ([#461](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/461))
+- Update tox requirement from ~=4.5 to ~=4.6 ([#481](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/481))
+- Bump mypy from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0 ([#503](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/503))
+- Update pre-commit requirement from ~=2.21 to ~=3.3 ([#426](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/426))
+- Update pytest requirement from ~=7.3 to ~=7.4 ([#507](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/507))
+- Bump mypy from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 ([#508](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/508))
+- Update pip-tools requirement from ~=6.13 to ~=6.14 ([#517](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/517))
+
+### Contributors
+- [@jiezhen-chen](https://github.com/jiezhen-chen) ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429), [#179](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/179), [#402](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/402), [#427](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/427), [#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429), [#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
+- [@nssalian](https://github.com/nssalian) ([#419](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/419), [#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'), [#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'))