Release notes for 1.16.0

Container images

docker.io/scylladb/scylla-operator:1.16.0

Extend Rack spec with rack specific ExposeOptions (#2484,@zimnx)
Add ScyllaDBCluster webhook validation (#2271,@zimnx)
Add RemoteKubernetesCluster finalizer (#2272,@zimnx)
Propagate operator loglevel (#2225,@tnozicka)
Raise loglevel when reporting perftune job completion (#2222,@tnozicka)
Move snitch config generation to Operator (#2231,@zimnx)
Add basic OpenShift support and setup [Part 1] (#1955,@tnozicka)
Add experimental Multi DC capabillity of Scylla cluster deployment (#2215,@zimnx)

Use a portable method to get systemd unit statuses (#2211,@rzetelskik)
Fix accidental ignition and stuck graceful termination (#2212,@tnozicka)
Fix cert-manager URL in deploy release CI script (#2219,@rzetelskik)
Explicitly disable developerMode when it's not set in the API object (#2238,@zimnx)
Fix sidecar annotation controller rate limits for better response times (#2246,@tnozicka)
Use client CA bundle as truststore (#2247,@rzetelskik)
Add tolerations to workaround sysctl DaemonSet (#2265,@rzetelskik)
Fix 'OS Metrics' dashboards in ScyllaDBMonitoring (#2279,@zimnx)
Use strict decoding in e2e tests' fixture registry (#2288,@rzetelskik)
Fix default Local CSI Driver manifest paths in CI deploy release script (#2299,@rzetelskik)

Unify the use of taints and tolerations in deploy, docs, examples and tests (#2235,@rzetelskik)
Update contribution guide (#2130,@zimnx)
Build v1.15 documentation (#2201,@zimnx)
Clarify provider disclaimer (#2206,@tnozicka)
Update GKE instance family in the quickstart to n2 (#2207,@tnozicka)
Add tuning link to ScyllaClusters resource documentation (#2208,@tnozicka)
Mark v1.15 as latest stable in documentation (#2281,@zimnx)
Update release schedule (#2302,@zimnx)
Fix 1.16 GA date (#2336,@ylebi)
Update docs theme 1.8.5 (#2485,@dgarcia360)
Fix quickstart links (#2293,@mykaul)
Drop unused examples and scripts (#2273,@rzetelskik)
Fix the reference to contributing guide in README (#2339,@rzetelskik)

New Test: Validate open ports (#1759,@tnozicka)
New Test: Add an e2e test for retryable NodeConfig mount units (#2253,@rzetelskik)
Add node affinities to ScyllaDB workloads and fix topology constraints in orphaned PV replacement e2e test (#2267,@rzetelskik)
Fix disk setup e2e assertion (#2309,@zimnx)
Add a NodeConfig manifest for CI jobs on GKE on arm64 (#2357,@rzetelskik)
Verify ScyllaCluster after each rollout in every test (#2227,@tnozicka)
Verify that no container in a ScyllaCluster Pod has restarted during e2e run (#2229,@tnozicka)
Support configuring ScyllaDB and Scylla Manager versions for e2e tests with flags (#2355,@grzywin)
Add a dedicated CI script to run E2Es with published releases on OpenShift on AWS (#2298,@rzetelskik)
Sync CI Openshift NodeConfig NVMe disks discovery with AWS (#2313,@zimnx)
Speed up NodeConfig optimization test (#2245,@tnozicka)

Update externalapi/monitoring/v1 and prometheus-operator manifests to v0.80.0 (#2472,@rzetelskik)
Bump monitoring stack to latest stable versions (#2199,@zimnx)
Update Go dependencies (#2209,@zimnx)
Update dependencies (#2301,@zimnx)
Update Kubernetes client libraries and code generators (#2333,@rzetelskik)
Update dependencies (#2473,@rzetelskik)

Clean up ScyllaCluster GET ClusterRole (#2315,@mflendrich)
Lazily initialize assets (#2233,@zimnx)
Make Scylla Operator resources configurable in CI scripts (#2276,@rzetelskik)
Always terminate leftover jobs in scripts (#2283,@tnozicka)
Extract CI setup into a dedicated script for testing release deployment (#2284,@tnozicka)
Move overriding Scylla Operator's log level to CI scripts and make it configurable (#2297,@rzetelskik)
Adjust key buffer sizes in CI based on parallelism (#2312,@rzetelskik)
Reimplement wait-for-object-creation with kubectl wait (#2487,@mflendrich)
Remove tnozicka from OWNERS (#2295,@tnozicka)
Add mflendrich to OWNERS (#2307,@mflendrich)
Add rzetelskik to approvers (#2356,@rzetelskik)