Release 0.16.0-rc0

[maayanf24]

This is a tracker issue to synchronise issues blocking 0.16.0-rc0 and PRs which shouldn’t be merged before 0.16.0-rc0 is released.

This issue should be updated to depend on any blocker, and any PR which is targeted post-0.16.0-rc0 should be updated to depend on this issue.

Depends on submariner-io/admiral#712
Depends on submariner-io/enhancements#190
Depends on submariner-io/enhancements#192
Depends on submariner-io/enhancements#193
Depends on submariner-io/lighthouse#1338
Depends on #762
Depends on submariner-io/shipyard#1046
Depends on submariner-io/shipyard#1264
Depends on submariner-io/shipyard#1272
Depends on submariner-io/shipyard#1345
Depends on submariner-io/subctl#798
Depends on submariner-io/subctl#876
Depends on submariner-io/subctl#791
Depends on submariner-io/subctl#872
Depends on submariner-io/subctl#884
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2559
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2599
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2651
Depends on submariner-io/submariner-operator#2767
Depends on submariner-io/submariner-operator#2768
Depends on submariner-io/submariner-operator#2783
Depends on submariner-io/submariner-operator#2788
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2662
Depends on submariner-io/submariner-operator#2772
Depends on submariner-io/subctl#888
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2673
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2675
Depends on submariner-io/submariner-operator#2790

[github-actions]

This PR/issue depends on:

• Bump controller-runtime to 0.15.2 admiral#712
• Remove the network plugin syncer from submariner enhancements#190
• Analyze and update subctl diagnose as per the new implementation enhancements#192
• Support upgrades to the new OVN IC implementation enhancements#193
• Bump CoreDNS to 1.11.0 lighthouse#1338
• Bump all dependencies in one go #762
• The metrics proxy server should be implemented as a shell script in the nettest image shipyard#1046
• Bump to Go 1.20 shipyard#1264
• Add a metrics proxy script shipyard#1272
• Bump k8s dependencies to 0.27.5 shipyard#1345
• show versions should extract version information from pod logs subctl#798
• upgrade-e2e isn’t testing upgrades from the latest release any more subctl#876
• Switch to depguard v2 configuration subctl#791
• Add subctl upgrade command subctl#872
• Remove association between ServiceAccounts and token Secrets subctl#884
• Disable dependabot PRs for parent-managed dependencies submariner#2559
• libreswan: Present --dpddelay if --dpdaction is specified submariner#2599
• Enable forwarding on the submariner interfaces submariner#2651
• Bump k8s dependencies to 0.27.5 submariner-operator#2767
• Drop the networkplugin-syncer system test submariner-operator#2768
• Don't check the gateway secrets submariner-operator#2783
• Fix the bundle build following networkplugin-syncer removal submariner-operator#2788
• Move the OVN-NBDB address discovery to route-agent submariner#2662
• Mount both Openshift and non-openshift nbdb path to support upgrades submariner-operator#2772
• Gather OVN IC resources subctl#888
• Fail to run submariner with OCP 4.13.9 on AWS  submariner#2673
• Delete legacy non-IC static routes submariner#2675
• Remove OVN db discovery code from submariner-operator submariner-operator#2790
  By Dependent Issues (🤖). Happy coding!