Release notes for 16.0.6

Signed-off-by: Harshit Gangal <[email protected]>

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changelog/16.0/16.0.6/changelog.md

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+# Changelog of Vitess v16.0.6
+
+### Bug fixes 
+#### CLI
+ * [release-16.0] Fix anonymous paths in cobra code-gen (#14185) [#14236](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14236) 
+#### Online DDL
+ * [Release 16.0]: Online DDL: timeouts for all gRPC calls (#14182) [#14191](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14191) 
+#### Query Serving
+ * [release-16.0] Rewrite `USING` to `ON` condition for joins (#13931) [#13940](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/13940) 
+#### Throttler
+ * [release-16.0] Tablet throttler: fix race condition by removing goroutine call (#14179) [#14200](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14200)
+### CI/Build 
+#### General
+ * [release-16.0] Upgrade the Golang version to `go1.20.9` [#14194](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14194)
+ * [release-16.0] Upgrade the Golang version to `go1.20.10` [#14228](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14228) 
+#### Online DDL
+ * [release-16.0] OnlineDDL: reduce vrepl_stress workload in forks (#14302) [#14347](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14347)
+### Dependabot 
+#### General
+ * [release-16.0] Bump github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin from 0.2.3 to 0.2.4 (#14239) [#14251](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14251)
+ * [release-16.0] Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.14.0 to 0.17.0 (#14260) [#14262](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14262) 
+#### VTAdmin
+ * [release-16.0] Bump postcss from 8.4.21 to 8.4.31 in /web/vtadmin (#14173) [#14256](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14256)
+ * [release-16.0] Bump @babel/traverse from 7.21.4 to 7.23.2 in /web/vtadmin (#14304) [#14306](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14306)
+### Enhancement 
+#### Build/CI
+ * [release-16.0] Automatic approval of `vitess-bot` clean backports (#14352) [#14355](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14355)
+### Release 
+#### General
+ * Code freeze of release-16.0 [#14409](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14409)
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changelog/16.0/16.0.6/release_notes.md

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+# Release of Vitess v16.0.6
+The entire changelog for this release can be found [here](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/main/changelog/16.0/16.0.6/changelog.md).
+
+The release includes 13 merged Pull Requests.
+
+Thanks to all our contributors: @app/github-actions, @app/vitess-bot, @harshit-gangal, @shlomi-noach
+