Release v4.16.0

What's Changed

• OCPEDGE-746: feat!: Micro LVMS - Edge / Low Resource Optimized LVMS by @jakobmoellerdev in #533
• NO-JIRA: Must-Gather, Running gather scripts in background by @OdedViner in #534
• OCPBUGS-26502: Allow using symlinks for wiping a device by @suleymanakbas91 in #535
• OCPBUGS-27095: Suggest workload partitioning annotation in the namespace by @suleymanakbas91 in #537
• OCPBUGS-27226: fix: add missing permissions to cluster scoped resources by @jakobmoellerdev in #543
• OCPEDGE-811: chore: dependency bumps for k8s 1.29 by @jakobmoellerdev in #546
• OCPEDGE-811: chore: remove toolchain directive due to midstream incompatibility by @jakobmoellerdev in #550
• NO-JIRA: chore: decrease general log verbosity by @jakobmoellerdev in #553
• NO-JIRA: fix: do not set resource version in lvmcluster test by @jakobmoellerdev in #554
• NO-ISSUE: chore: various small dependency bumps by @jakobmoellerdev in #555
• OCPEDGE-821: chore: disable leader election for single replica deployment by @jakobmoellerdev in #557
• NO-JIRA: chore: reduce terminationGracePeriod to 10s on deploy by @jakobmoellerdev in #558
• NO-JIRA: docs: relay to product docs by @jakobmoellerdev in #562
• OCPEDGE-815: fix: pending shutdown on topology queue by @jakobmoellerdev in #563
• OCPEDGE-810: chore: remove pre 4.16 components from cluster on startup by @jakobmoellerdev in #564
• OCPBUGS-27956: Revert back to file-based lvmd config to support different configs for each node by @suleymanakbas91 in #566
• OCPBUGS-28975: fix: more sophisticated tagging migration by @suleymanakbas91 in #569
• OCPBUGS-28727: fix: allow stderr reporting via error and stdout reporting via logs when no parsing is run by @jakobmoellerdev in #567
• OCPBUGS-29188: fix: resolve PV name via Symlink before comparing to KName by @jakobmoellerdev in #571
• OCPEDGE-781: chore: remove managed fields from all objs by @jakobmoellerdev in #574
• NO-JIRA: chore: dep bumps 0.29.2 by @jakobmoellerdev in #575
• OCPEDGE-526: Add missing LV-level encryption support to the limitations by @suleymanakbas91 in #579
• OCPBUGS-29225: fix: also update the scc instead of ignoring if it exists by @jakobmoellerdev in #582
• OCPEDGE-921: chore: migrate to topolvm v4 kubebuilder layout after package move by @jakobmoellerdev in #584
• OCPBUGS-30346: chore: update feature annotations for lvms by @jakobmoellerdev in #585
• OCPBUGS-29225: SCC user update should work correctly by @jakobmoellerdev in #587
• NO-JIRA: chore: various dependency updates by @jakobmoellerdev in #588
• OCPEDGE-998: fix: avoid restart of vgmanager on config reload by @jakobmoellerdev in #595
• OCPEDGE-1000: feat: implement thick provisioning by @jakobmoellerdev in #596
• OCPBUGS-30266: fix: introduce minimum allocation sizes by @jakobmoellerdev in #603
• OCPBUGS-32239: chore: bump golang.org/x/net v0.23.0 by @jakobmoellerdev in #604
• OCPBUGS-32268: chore: remove image based FBC and replace with dynamic generation by @jakobmoellerdev in #609
• OCPBUGS-32268: fix: depend on opm in catalog make task by @jakobmoellerdev in #611
• OCPBUGS-30830: Accommodate the case in readiness calculation where readyVGCount is greater than expectedVGCount by @suleymanakbas91 in #612
• OCPEDGE-922: Bring more visibility to dynamic device discovery by warnings and a new status field by @suleymanakbas91 in #615
• OCPEDGE-1005: must-gather: add support for --since and --since-time flags by @suleymanakbas91 in #616
• NO-ISSUE: chore: k8s 1.29.4 dependency bumps by @jakobmoellerdev in #614
• OCPBUGS-33026: Add OpenShift Kubernetes Engine to valid subscriptions by @suleymanakbas91 in #618
• OCPEDGE-1080: fix: approvers and reviewers update by @jeff-roche in #623
• OCPBUGS-33244: Change LVMS base image to fix openssl conflicts by @suleymanakbas91 in #624
• OCPBUGS-32954: OCPBUGS-32753: Remove LVMVolumeGroupNodeStatus CRs when LVMCluster CR is removed by @suleymanakbas91 in #617
• OCPEDGE-1085: Change the base image to fedora by @suleymanakbas91 in #625
• OSDOCS-10556: Update descriptions for the API fields by @suleymanakbas91 in #627
• [release-4.16] OCPBUGS-35404: feat: chunk size policy by @jakobmoellerdev in #635
• [openshift-4.16] OCPBUGS-35404: fix: actually pass through and validate chunk size by @jakobmoellerdev in #644

New Contributors

• @OdedViner made their first contribution in #534

Full Changelog: v4.15.0...v4.16.0