Add release note for 2.16 (#2753) (#2758)

* Add release note for 2.16

Signed-off-by: b4sjoo <[email protected]>

* Fix wrong notes

Signed-off-by: b4sjoo <[email protected]>

* Fix wrong notes

Signed-off-by: b4sjoo <[email protected]>

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Signed-off-by: b4sjoo <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 2b17022)

Co-authored-by: Sicheng Song <[email protected]>

Author: opensearch-trigger-bot[bot]

release-notes/opensearch-ml-common.release-notes-2.16.0.0.md

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+## Version 2.16.0.0 Release Notes
+
+Compatible with OpenSearch 2.16.0
+
+### Features
+* Add initial MLInferenceSearchResponseProcessor (#2688)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2688]
+* Add initial search request inference processor (#2731)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2731]
+* Add Batch Prediction Mode in the Connector Framework for batch inference (#2661)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2661]
+
+### Enhancements
+* Automated model interface generation on aws llms (#2689)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2689]
+* Increase execute thread pool size (#2691)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2691]
+* Add multi modal default preprocess function (#2500)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2500]
+* Add model input validation for local models in ml processor (#2610)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2610]
+* Removing experimental from the Conversation memory feature(#2592)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2592]
+* Pass all parameters including chat_history to run tools (#2714)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2714]
+* Feat: add bedrock runtime agent for knowledge base (#2651)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2651]
+* change disk circuit breaker to cluster settings (#2634)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2634]
+
+### Bug Fixes
+* Add stashcontext to connector getter (#2742)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2742]
+* Excluding remote models from max node per node setting (#2732)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2732]
+* Add logging for throttling and guardrail in connector (#2725)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2725]
+* Add acknowledge check for index creation in missing places (#2715)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2715]
+* Update config index mappings to use correct field types (#2710)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2710]
+* Fix yaml test issue (#2700)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2700]
+* Fix MLModelTool returns null if the response of LLM is a pure json object (#2675)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2675]
+* Bump ml config index schema version (#2656)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2656]
+
+### Maintenance
+* Upgrade djl version to 0.28.0 (#2578)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2578]
+* Register system index descriptors through SystemIndexPlugin.getSystemIndexDescriptors (#2586)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2586]
+
+### Infrastructure
+* Enable tests with mockStatic in MLEngineTest (#2582)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2582]
+* Fix GA workflow that publishes Apache Maven artifacts (#2625)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2625]
+* Temp use of older nodejs version before moving to Almalinux8 (#2628)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2628]
+
+### Documentation
+* Add amazon textract blueprint (#2562)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2562]
+* Make all Bedrock model blueprints in a tidier format (#2642)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2642]
+* Fix remote inference blueprints (#2692)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2692]
+* Add connector blueprint for cohere embedding models in bedrock (#2667)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2667]
+* Update tutorials for caching secrets for non-aws models (#2637)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2637]
+* Add tutuorial for cross-encoder model on sagemaker (#2607)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2607]
+
+### Refactoring
+* Change multimodal connector name to bedrock multimodal connector (#2672)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/ml-commons/pull/2672]