This release contains 14 PRs from 8 authors. Thank you!

Changelog

2.16.1

Grafana Mimir

• [BUGFIX] Update to Go v1.23.9 to address CVE-2025-22871. #11543
• [BUGFIX] Update golang.org/x/net to v0.38.0 to address CVE-2025-22872. #11281
• [BUGFIX] Query-frontend: Fix a panic in monolithic mode caused by a clash in labels of the cortex_client_invalid_cluster_validation_label_requests_total metric definition. #11455

All changes in this release: mimir-2.16.0...mimir-2.16.1