Vitess v2.16.0

What's Changed

• [main] Bump version.go to 2.15.0 by @frouioui in #678
• Upgrade Vitess Dependency to Latest by @github-actions[bot] in #680
• Update test code after the v2.15.0-rc1 release by @frouioui in #684
• Upgrade Vitess Dependency to Latest by @github-actions[bot] in #687
• Upgrade Vitess Dependency to Latest by @github-actions[bot] in #689
• Refactor end-to-end tests by @stankevich in #700
• Make --s3_backup_aws_min_partsize optional by @frouioui in #702
• Fix mysql alias in end-to-end utils by @stankevich in #703
• Fix tests post v22 patch release by @GuptaManan100 in #708
• Support extra flags for mysqld_exporter by @stankevich in #629
• Add fetchCredentials setting for VTAdmin by @leejones in #711
• Upgrade Vitess dependencies to latest by @frouioui in #712
• bump go version to go1.25.1 by @frouioui in #721
• bump the vitess version to main by @frouioui in #722
• allow specifying the hex width to use when generating shard ranges by @frouioui in #723
• [release-2.16] Release of v2.16.0-RC1 by @systay in #727
• [release-2.16] Back to dev mode after the release of v2.16.0-rc1 by @systay in #728
• [release-2.16] Release of v2.16.0-RC2 by @systay in #730
• [release-2.16] Back to dev mode after the release of v2.16.0-rc2 by @systay in #731
• [release-2.16] Release of v2.16.0 by @systay in #732

New Contributors

• @leejones made their first contribution in #711

Full Changelog: v2.15.0...v2.16.0