chore: prepare changelog for 0.12.16 (#1122)

Author: gshaibi

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+## [v0.12.16] - 2026-03-02
+### Fixed
+- Fixed operator status conditions to be kstatus-compatible for Helm 4 `--wait` support: added `Ready` condition and fixed `Reconciling` condition to properly transition to false after reconciliation completes [#1060](https://github.com/NVIDIA/KAI-Scheduler/pull/1060)
 
 ## [v0.12.15] - 2026-02-25
 ### Fixed
@@ -31,7 +34,6 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/).
 ## [v0.12.9] - 2026-01-21
 
 ### Fixed
-- Fixed operator status conditions to be kstatus-compatible for Helm 4 `--wait` support: added `Ready` condition and fixed `Reconciling` condition to properly transition to false after reconciliation completes [#1060](https://github.com/NVIDIA/KAI-Scheduler/pull/1060)
 - Fixed a bug where the node scale adjuster would not check if a pod was unschedulable before creating a scaling pod leading to unnecessary node scaling [#1094](https://github.com/NVIDIA/KAI-Scheduler/pull/1094) [slaupster](https://github.com/slaupster)
 - Fixed admission webhook to skip runtimeClassName injection when gpuPodRuntimeClassName is empty [#1035](https://github.com/NVIDIA/KAI-Scheduler/pull/1035)
 - Fixed topology-migration helm hook failing on OpenShift due to missing `kai-topology-migration` service account in the `kai-system` SCC [#1050](https://github.com/NVIDIA/KAI-Scheduler/pull/1050)