[Feature Request]: Upgrading Beam Flink Runner to Flink 1.16

[achang52]

What would you like to happen?

Currently the highest version supported by Beam Flink Runner is Flink 1.15 - would like to upgrade the beam flink runner to Flink 1.16 which was released in October 2022 which provides many n ew features.

Issue Priority

Priority: 2 (default / most feature requests should be filed as P2)

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[Abacn]

Duplicates #25046. removed milestone to avoid confusion.