Blog post for 0.16.0

Signed-off-by: Keith Wall <[email protected]>

Author: k-wall

_posts/2025-10-01-release-0_16_0.md

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+layout: post
+title: "Kroxylicious release 0.16.0"
+date: 2025-10-01 00:00:00 +1200
+author: "Keith Wall"
+author_url: "https://github.com/k-wall"
+# noinspection YAMLSchemaValidation
+categories: blog kroxylicious-proxy kroxylicious-operator releases
+tags: [ "releases", "kroxylicious-proxy", "kroxylicious-operator" ]
+---
+
+The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release
+of [Kroxylicious 0.15.0](https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/releases/tag/v0.16.0). See
+the [Changelog](https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#0160) for a list of changes and
+summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
+
+The main highlights of this release are:
+
+### Apache Kafka 4.1.0 compatibility
+
+The main change in this release is Apache Kafka 4.1.0 compatibility.  The proxy will now relay Kafka 4.1 specific versions of the Kafka RPC and your filters can intercept them.
+
+### Monitoring improvements
+
+Thanks to the work of [hrishabhg](https://github.com/hrishabhg), the proxy now sports connection count gauges, alllowing you to monitor downstream and upstream connection counts in realtime.
+
+### Feedback
+
+Please let us know,
+through [Slack](https://kroxylicious.slack.com), [GitHub](https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/issues) or
+even [bsky](https://bsky.app/profile/kroxylicious.io)), if you find the project interesting or helpful and especially if
+you have deployed it in production.