chore: prepare for 1.16.0 release

[acelinkio]

Description

Fixes: #516

Releases:

• feat: Add new Kubernetes Secret backend #521
• package updates

Checklist

Please make sure that your PR fulfills the following requirements:

• [x ] Reviewed the guidelines for contributing to this repository
• [x ] The commit message follows the Conventional Commits Guidelines.
• Tests for the changes have been updated
• Are you adding dependencies? If so, please run go mod tidy -compat=1.17 to ensure only the minimum is pulled in.
• [x ] Docs have been added / updated
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Type of Change

• Bugfix
• Feature
• Code style update (formatting, local variables)
• Refactoring (no functional changes, no api changes)
• New tests
• Build/CI related changes
• [ x] Documentation content changes
• Other (please describe)

Other information

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Codecov Report

Merging #529 (8d14e40) into main (3c53937) will not change coverage.
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[acelinkio]

Hey @werne2j any chance of merge/release? Super excited to try out the new secret provider!

[werne2j]

@acelinkio Will create the release tomorrow