Release v0.16.23

What's Changed

Minor Changes:

• cli: aws mixed nodes install fix (cilium/cilium#36336, @viktor-kurchenko)

Bugfixes:

• Cilium CLI fix for AWS ENI mode (cilium/cilium#36887, @viktor-kurchenko)
• Restore the original flag semantics for --egress-masquerade-interfaces to the same as v1.17.0-pre.2 or earlier (cilium/cilium#36504, @viktor-kurchenko)

CI Changes:

• Add --external-other-target parameter to cilium CLI connectivity tests. (cilium/cilium#36080, @wedaly)
• Change client-egress-l7-tls tests to sequential because flaky (cilium/cilium#36568, @youngnick)
• cilium-cli/connectivity: fix IPv6 feature check for 2ndary node IPv6 (cilium/cilium#36513, @tklauser)
• cilium-cli: Add envoy log pattern in error check (cilium/cilium#36498, @sayboras)
• Fix cilium CLI connectivity tests in IPv6-only clusters. (cilium/cilium#36026, @wedaly)

Misc Changes:

• chore(deps): update all-dependencies (main) (cilium/cilium#36706, @cilium-renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang:1.23.4 docker digest to 7003184 (main) (cilium/cilium#36604, @cilium-renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang:1.23.4 docker digest to 7ea4c9d (main) (cilium/cilium#36808, @cilium-renovate[bot])
• ci/connectivity: Don't apply cnp to conn-disrupt pods in 1.15, 1.14 (cilium/cilium#36682, @jschwinger233)
• cilium-cli: skip some IPv6 connectivity tests for Cilium<1.14 when IPsec is enabled (cilium/cilium#36664, @jschwinger233)
• Isolate node-to-node encryption tests to wireguard (cilium/cilium#36556, @ldelossa)
• chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (minor) by @renovate in #2887
• Update stable release to v0.16.22 by @tklauser in #2888
• chore(deps): update module golang.org/x/crypto to v0.31.0 [security] by @renovate in #2889
• chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (minor) by @renovate in #2890
• Dockerfile: drop syntax comment by @tklauser in #2893
• chore(deps): update dependency kubernetes-sigs/kind to v0.26.0 by @renovate in #2892
• chore(deps): update dependency cilium/cilium to v1.16.5 by @renovate in #2894
• chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.5.0 by @renovate in #2896
• chore(deps): update module golang.org/x/net to v0.33.0 [security] by @renovate in #2895
• chore(deps): update golangci/golangci-lint docker tag to v1.63.0 by @renovate in #2899
• chore(deps): update golangci/golangci-lint docker tag to v1.63.4 by @renovate in #2902
• chore(deps): update helm/kind-action action to v1.12.0 by @renovate in #2901
• chore(deps): update softprops/action-gh-release action to v2.2.1 by @renovate in #2905
• Prepare for v0.16.23 release by @michi-covalent in #2903

Full Changelog: v0.16.22...v0.16.23