chore(main): Release 1.16.0

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1.16.0 (2026-04-15)

Features 🌟

• Add clustering for loki.source.kubernetes_events (#6027) (3dbf587)
• Add otelcol.auth.google client auth provider (#5526) (da99a66)
• beyla.ebpf: Bump to v3.7.0 (#5966) (5126c2e)
• database_observability: Add support for GCP Cloud SQL metadata (#5875) (5d23245)
• database_observability: Make targets optional (#5924) (54664b2)
• faro.receiver: Add sourcemap fetching from remote locations (#4614) (b6cb5da)
• helm: Allow configuring image pull policy for config reloader (#5923) (991539b)
• loki.secretfilter: Add label_timed_out option to mark timed-out log lines (#5898) (2ad8834)
• loki.secretfilter: Add secrets_redacted_by_category_total metric combining rule and origin (#5855) (053a2f7)
• loki.secretfilter: Change secretfilter to use go-re2 regex library instead of stdlib (#5909) (c16a660)
• loki.secretfilter: Remove redundant secrets_redacted_by_rule_total and secrets_redacted_by_origin metrics (#5970) (b16decb)
• prometheus.exporter.cloudwatch: Upgrade YACE and drop aws-sdk-go v1 support (#5936) (f1c036d)
• prometheus.exporter.mysql: Update to mysqld_exporter 0.19.0 (#5836) (4f49b57)
• prometheus.remote_write: Sync WAL with upstream Prometheus (#5907) (e74a91b)
• pyroscope: Add support for extra async-profiler CLI arguments (#5472) (9251e33)
• pyroscope: Replace Parca gRPC debuginfo upload with Pyroscope Connect API (#5891) (e7ea34a)

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Change service stop command from 'sc' to 'net' (#5906) (450973d)
• database_observability.mysql: Refactor explain plan loop batch size (#5894) (f0fcd6b)
• database_observability: Ensure connection_info_monitor goroutine exits on Stop (#5874) (1e3334b)
• deps: Update module github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3 to v1.97.3 [SECURITY] (#6004) (38f4346)
• deps: Update module github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 to v5.17.1 [SECURITY] (#5934) (a5154af)
• deps: Update module github.com/nwaples/rardecode/v2 to v2.2.0 [SECURITY] (b44d51a)
• deps: Update module go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp to v1.43.0 [SECURITY] (#6016) (d92c5c0)
• deps: Update module go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp to v1.43.0 [SECURITY] (#6017) (e655bbc)
• deps: Update module go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk to v1.43.0 [SECURITY] (#6018) (94006e8)
• deps: Update some minor go dep versions (#5896) (4ddd0ed)
• go: Update alloy builder image to Go 1.25.9 (#6012) (d2ae8b8)
• go: Upgrade to Go 1.25.9 (#6019) (d777ed1)
• Helm: RBAC template handles empty rule arrays (#4860) (c9430e9)
• loki.process: Eliminate per-stream goroutines in multiline stage (#6036) (c089e2e)
• loki.process: Prevent stage.structured_metadata from adding the same metadata several times (#5965) (0ec8a26)
• loki.process: Wrap template in a custom type and move validation to syntax.Validator (#5910) (700dd7d)
• prometheus.exporter.postgres: Close DB connections on update (#6021) (8da97cf)
• pyroscope.ebpf: Fix deadlock on LRU eviction in irsymcache (#5911) (03ca563)
• pyroscope.ebpf: Move Pyroscope ebpf metrics registration after component error handling (#5540) (a3c57c0)
• pyroscope: Set user agent on debuginfo connect-go client (#6022) (38ad1ef)
• ui: Large arguments are downloaded as files instead of rendered (#5268) (26c67b3)
• Update go-m1cpu v0.1.7 -> v0.2.1 to fix M5 chip crash (#6034) (7fa0cbc)
• windows-installer: Increase service restart on failure delays (#5969) (add15b1)

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