v1.6.16

What's Changed

• feat: add IPConfig state logs/metrics to Request/Release handlers by @rbtr in #3050
• [NPM Lite] Querying L1VH + Non-L1VH Endpoints by @rejain456 in #3086
• fix: add retraction of v1.16.15 by @santhoshmprabhu in #3108
• fix: [NPM] [Linux] improve iptables version detection and cleanup by @huntergregory in #3090
• deps: bump github.com/vishvananda/netns from 0.0.4 to 0.0.5 by @dependabot in #3112
• deps: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.67.1 to 1.68.0 by @dependabot in #3116
• [forwardport] ci: update regex for new cilium images (#3115) by @jpayne3506 in #3118
• ci: standardize E2E job timeout to 2 hours on PR pipeline by @jpayne3506 in #3124
• deps: bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.28.0 to 0.29.0 by @dependabot in #3127
• feat: use proto in CNS usage of client-go by @rbtr in #3131
• feat: adding stateless CNI support for ACI by @behzad-mir in #3085
• deps: bump golang.org/x/time from 0.7.0 to 0.8.0 by @dependabot in #3128
• deps: bump golang.org/x/net from 0.30.0 to 0.31.0 by @dependabot in #3133
• deps: bump github.com/golangci/golangci-lint from 1.61.0 to 1.62.0 in /build/tools by @dependabot in #3134
• Remove l2bridge checker on windows and l2tunnel mode by @paulyufan2 in #3113
• feat: Windows HPC base image by @rbtr in #3105
• ci: Add exit code capture for PR pipeline by @jpayne3506 in #3125
• ci: bump engineerd/setup-kind from 0.5.0 to 0.6.2 by @dependabot in #3101
• expose MinTLSVersion config for TLS handshake by @ZetaoZhuang in #3103
• Fix: Add default route on delegatedNIC interface by @paulyufan2 in #3109
• ci: remove windows transparent vlan conflist by @QxBytes in #3136
• test: add create endpoint info policy test by @QxBytes in #3141
• fix: remove PowerShell from Windows registry interactions by @rbtr in #2993
• deps: bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.35.1 to 1.35.2 by @dependabot in #3147
• Remove bridgeName field from CNI windows conflist files by @paulyufan2 in #3135
• deps: bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.35.1 to 1.35.2 in /build/tools by @dependabot in #3146
• Revert "feat: use proto in CNS usage of client-go " by @rbtr in #3152

Full Changelog: v1.6.15...v1.6.16