Release 0.16.1

[maayanf24]

This is a tracker to aggregate issues that should be part of 0.16.1. Please add specific Issues or PRs prefixed with the "Depends on" keyword (and remember that PRs need to be backported to the release-0.16 branch).

Depends on submariner-io/admiral#744
Depends on submariner-io/lighthouse#1432
Depends on submariner-io/shipyard#1448
Depends on submariner-io/subctl#972
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2747
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2740
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2759
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2749
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2753
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2773
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2774
Depends on submariner-io/submariner#2779
Depends on submariner-io/submariner-operator#2838
Depends on submariner-io/submariner-operator#2848
Depends on submariner-io/submariner-operator#2858
Depends on submariner-io/submariner-operator#2861
Depends on submariner-io/submariner-operator#2865
Depends on submariner-io/subctl#986
Depends on submariner-io/submariner-website#1078

[dfarrell07]

Removing submariner-io/subctl#971 as dependent per discussion with team.

[github-actions]

This PR/issue depends on:

• Automated backport of #743: Add optional event logging in the Federators admiral#744
• Automated backport of #1430: Delete stale EndpointSlices on restart lighthouse#1432
• Automated backport of #1447: Fix panic due to invalid nil check shipyard#1448
• Automated backport of #970: Edit arguments given to run new upgraded subctl subctl#972
• Improvements to the Gateway leader election submariner#2747
• Automated backport of #2738: Fix log message from nodeHandler submariner#2740
• Automated backport of #2743: Use leader election in globalnet controller submariner#2759
• Automated backport of #2739: Improve logging in Globalnet controllers submariner#2749
• Automated backport of #2752: On route agent startup, delete invalid directories submariner#2753
• Automated backport of #2772: Only update local Endpoint when setting HealthCheckIP submariner#2773
• Automated backport of #2766: Delete Calico IPPools when Submariner uninstalled submariner#2774
• Automated backport of #2778: Pass ctx to datastoreSyncer Start method submariner#2779
• Automated backport of #2837: Add lease RBAC permissions for globalnet submariner-operator#2838
• Automated backport of #2846: Mount host path directories instead of sockets submariner-operator#2848
• Automated backport of #2854: Allow halting (and restarting) pods on certificate errors submariner-operator#2858
• Backport: enable Calico IPPools deletecollection in RouteAgent RBAC submariner-operator#2861
• Automated backport of #2863: Make HaltOnCertificateError optional submariner-operator#2865
• Automated backport of #979: Add LICENSE to tars subctl#986
• Add known issue RNs for 0.16.1 submariner-website#1078
  By Dependent Issues (🤖). Happy coding!