Release Release v0.16.19 · cilium/cilium-cli

What's Changed

Minor Changes:

cilium-cli: Deprecate --disable-check flag (cilium/cilium#34953, @michi-covalent)
feat(cilium-cli-clustermesh): Improve --destination-context option for connecting multiple remote contexts (cilium/cilium#34510, @littlejo)
version: Don't create k8s client if --client is specified (cilium/cilium#34914, @michi-covalent)

Bugfixes:

cli: fix a case when connectivity perf command was hanging if LRP was enabled in the cluster (cilium/cilium#35063, @marseel)
Correctly format cilium status -o json CLI output for errors and warnings (cilium/cilium#34654, @nimishamehta5)
Fix missing Helm chart version for status command (cilium/cilium#34748, @pgils)
fix(clustermesh): mesh connection mode (cilium/cilium#34932, @littlejo)

CI Changes:

cilium-cli: connectivity: fix the local-redirect-policy flow validation (cilium/cilium#34919, @ysksuzuki)
cilium-cli: Define CLI_MAIN_DIR Make variable (cilium/cilium#34910, @michi-covalent)

Misc Changes:

.github: add cache to cilium-cli and hubble-cli build workflows (cilium/cilium#34847, @aanm)
chore(deps): update all-dependencies (main) (cilium/cilium#34872, @cilium-renovate[bot])
chore(deps): update all-dependencies (main) (cilium/cilium#34969, @cilium-renovate[bot])
chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang:1.23.1 docker digest to 4f063a2 (main) (cilium/cilium#35075, @cilium-renovate[bot])
chore(deps): update go to v1.23.1 (main) (cilium/cilium#34732, @cilium-renovate[bot])
cilium-cli/status: sort status lines (cilium/cilium#34927, @tklauser)
cilium-cli/sysdump: export SubmitMetricsSubtask (cilium/cilium#34864, @tklauser)
cilium-cli: collect BGPv2 CRD resources in sysdump (cilium/cilium#34684, @rastislavs)
cilium-cli: remove copying of loop variables (cilium/cilium#34944, @tklauser)
cli/connectivity: improvements for echo-ingress-l7-via-hostport test (cilium/cilium#34502, @julianwiedmann)
go: Replace x/maps package by respective standard libraries (cilium/cilium#34649, @sayboras)
Use Go standard library slices package more extensively (cilium/cilium#34796, @tklauser)

Other Changes:

Update stable release to v0.16.18 by @michi-covalent in #2807
multicluster: correctly specify the dst context to clustermes connect by @giorio94 in #2810
github: Increase hubble-event-queue-size by @michi-covalent in #2815
chore(deps): update dependency ubuntu to v24 by @renovate in #2814
github: Add a workflow to close stale issues and PRs by @michi-covalent in #2813
chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (minor) by @renovate in #2811
chore(deps): update dependency cilium/cilium to v1.16.2 by @renovate in #2812
Prepare for #2755 - Dockerfile only by @leppeK in #2817
go.mod: pick up github.com/cilium/cilium v1.17.0-pre.1 by @tklauser in #2818
chore(deps): update docker/build-push-action action to v6.9.0 by @renovate in #2816
chore(deps): update dependency go to v1.23.2 by @renovate in #2820
Prepare for v0.16.19 release by @michi-covalent in #2822

Full Changelog: v0.16.18...v0.16.19