v0.16.0

What's Changed

• [fix][sec] Bump golang.org/x/net to address CVE-2025-22870, requires go 1.23 by @lhotari in #1351
• [chore] Bump github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5 from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 by @dependabot in #1349
• [chore] Bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.18 to 1.7.27 by @dependabot in #1348
• [fix] Use sha instead of tag for golangci/golangci-lint-action by @nodece in #1352
• [feat] Prefetch role tokens in the background in the Athenz auth plugin by @masahiro-sakamoto in #1355
• [feat] Make ZTS proxy configurable in athenz auth plugin by @masahiro-sakamoto in #1360
• [fix] Fix reader hanging when startMessageId is latest by @RobertIndie in #1364
• [fix] Fix CI can't be failed even the tests are failed by @RobertIndie in #1367
• [improve] Improve perf with level guard in slogWrapper calls by @gareth-murphy in #1374
• [feat] Support update or remove topic properties by @yunze-xu in #1381
• [test] Skip very flaky TestMessageSingleRouter for now by @yunze-xu in #1382
• [improve] Support ClientVersion in 2.x pulsar broker by @zhou-zhuohan in #1383
• [test] Add Testcase to test using keyShared subscription and delayed messages at the same time by @zhou-zhuohan in #1361
• [fix] Support json token file format authentication by @Qiang-Zhao in #1380
• [chore] Replace deprecated api rand.Seed by @Young-xu in #1363
• [fix] Fix namespace schema compatibility strategy by @Rui-Fu in #1386
• [fix] Fix backoff unit tests by @zhou-zhuohan in #1387
• [improve] Support http lookup getSchema interface by @zhou-zhuohan in #1368
• [fix] Fix the default nack backoff policy by @Gilthoniel in #1385
• [feat] Add pulsar admin namespace properties methods for PUT/GET/DELETE by @thomas-bousquet in #1390
• [fix] Fix sending buffer race by using proper reference counting by @RobertIndie in #1394
• [fix] ZeroQueueConsumer is not supported with RetryEnable by @crossoverJie in #1391
• [fix] Add missing metric tracking of pulsar_client_consumer_acks for AckIDList method by @RobertIndie in #1396
• [feat] Align topics level policies admin apis to java restful apis by @Rui-Fu in #1398

New Contributors

• @gmurphy-cogito made their first contribution in #1374
• @mattisonchao made their first contribution in #1380
• @xuthus5 made their first contribution in #1363
• @thomas-bousquet made their first contribution in #1390