v0.16.0

This release adds support for Kubernetes 1.27 and 1.28, and drops support for 1.23 and older.
Among the various new features and bug fixes, we'd like to call out several improvements around cross-cluster garbage collection.
We also welcome 4 new contributors.

New Features

• 3081591 add support for k8s 1.27 and 1.28
• 0730b87 add support for webhook reinvocation policy in chart, thanks @kirillmakhonin-brt
• 408855e label virtual nodes with node.kubernetes.io/exclude-from-external-load-balancers in addition to the deprecated alpha.service-controller.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer, thanks @bcarlock-emerge
• fa81d34 support different default priority in target cluster
• 01688ea delete proxy pod when pod chaperon is deleted
• 7116f41 recreate delegate pod if pod chaperon not deleted after a minute (if cluster connection lost)
• 7116f41 webhook readiness, for high availability

Bugfixes

• a2e557e fix cross-cluster garbage collection after parent deletion
• ccc3899 fix use-constraints-from-spec-for-proxy-pod-scheduling when webhook is reinvocated

Breaking Changes

• 3081591 drop support for k8s 1.23 and older

Internals

• distribute container images and Helm chart (as OCI artifact) on ECR public registry
• fixed flaky e2e tests
• per-k8s-version e2e test failure cluster dump
• bumping dependencies with dependabot, thanks @Rajpratik71
• speed up GH Actions by not installing Docker because it's already installed
• migrating away from deprecated functions in the wait package, thanks @Parthiba-Hazra