Add release post for 2.16.1 (#103)

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Signed-off-by: Ben Wilson <benjamin.wilson@databricks.com>
Co-authored-by: mlflow-automation <mlflow-automation@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Ben Wilson <benjamin.wilson@databricks.com>

website/releases/2024-09-13-2.16.1-release.md

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+---
+title: MLflow 2.16.1
+slug: 2.16.1
+authors: [mlflow-maintainers]
+---
+
+## 2.16.1 (2024-09-13)
+
+MLflow 2.16.1 is a patch release that includes some minor feature improvements and addresses several bug fixes.
+
+Features:
+
+- [Tracing] Add Support for an Open Telemetry compatible exporter to configure external sinks for MLflow traces ([#13118](https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/pull/13118), [@B-Step62](https://github.com/B-Step62))
+- [Model Registry, AWS] Add support for utilizing AWS KMS-based encryption for the MLflow Model Registry ([#12495](https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/pull/12495), [@artjen](https://github.com/artjen))
+- [Model Registry] Add support for using the OSS Unity Catalog server as a Model Registry ([#13034](https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/pull/13034), [#13065](https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/pull/13065), [#13066](https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/pull/13066), [@rohitarun-db](https://github.com/rohitarun-db))
+- [Models] Introduce path-based transformers logging to reduce memory requirements for saving large transformers models ([#13070](https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/pull/13070), [@B-Step62](https://github.com/B-Step62))
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+- [Tracking] Fix a data payload size issue with `Model.get_tags_dict` by eliminating the return of the internally-used `config` field ([#13086](https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/pull/13086), [@harshilprajapati96](https://github.com/harshilprajapati96))
+- [Models] Fix an issue with LangChain Agents where sub-dependencies were not being properly extracted ([#13105](https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/pull/13105), [@aravind-segu](https://github.com/aravind-segu))
+- [Tracking] Fix an issue where the wrong checkpoint for the current best model in auto checkpointing was being selected ([#12981](https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/pull/12981), [@hareeen](https://github.com/hareeen))
+- [Tracking] Fix an issue where local timezones for trace initialization were not being taken into account in AutoGen tracing ([#13047](https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/pull/13047), [@B-Step62](https://github.com/B-Step62))
+
+Documentation updates:
+
+- [Docs] Added RunLLM chat widget to MLflow's documentation site ([#13123](https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/pull/13123), [@likawind](https://github.com/likawind))
+
+For a comprehensive list of changes, see the [release change log](https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v2.16.1), and check out the latest documentation on [mlflow.org](http://mlflow.org/).

website/src/posts.ts

@@ -297,6 +297,20 @@ export const BLOGS: Blog[] = [
 
 // Sort by date descending
 export const RELEASES: Release[] = [
+  {
+    title: "MLflow 2.16.1",
+    path: "/releases/2.16.1",
+    authors: [
+      {
+        name: "MLflow maintainers",
+        title: "MLflow maintainers",
+        url: "https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow.git",
+        image_url: "https://github.com/mlflow-automation.png",
+      },
+    ],
+    date: "2024-09-13",
+    version: "2.16.1",
+  },
   {
     title: "MLflow 2.16.0",
     path: "/releases/2.16.0",