v1.16.8-rc.1

What's Changed

• chore: upgrade plugins elastic and splunk by @javiercri in #322
• chore(deps): bump jmespath from 1.5.0 to 1.6.1 in /base-image by @dependabot in #331
• docs(readme): update changelogs for v1.16.7 by @javiercri in #334
• update fluentd to v1.15.0 by @yuzs2 in #337
• update dependencies for fluentd 1.15 by @slimm609 in #338
• feat: add support for throttle plugin by @javiercri in #341
• chore(deps): bump google-protobuf from 3.21.5 to 3.21.7 in /base-image by @dependabot in #340
• feat: add missing prometheus metrics by @javiercri in #342
• Add automatic releases to Github actions by @gga-kialo in #330

New Contributors

• @yuzs2 made their first contribution in #337
• @gga-kialo made their first contribution in #330

Full Changelog: v1.16.7...v1.16.8-rc.1