KubeVirt v1.6.1 release

[Federico Fossemo]

Hi everyone!

The Kubevirt Team is happy to announce the availability of KubeVirt v1.6.1!

This release follows v1.6.0.

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.6.1.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.6.1

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: https://quay.io/kubevirt/.

Notable changes
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- Fix compatibility with k8s 1.34, preventing upgrade issues 
- [PR #15076][kubevirt-bot] HostDisk: KubeVirt no longer performs chown/chmod to compensate for storage that doesn't support fsGroup
- [PR #15385][kubevirt-bot] bugfix: Enable vmsnapshot for paused VMs
- [PR #15655][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: Fix volume migration for VMs with long name
- [PR #15543][kubevirt-bot] ensure default Firmware.Serial value on newly created vms
- [PR #15648][kubevirt-bot] Allow decentralized live migration on L3 networks
- [PR #15608][kubevirt-bot] Bugfix: Exclude lost+found from export server
- [PR #15653][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: Windows VM with vTPM that was previously Storage Migrated cannot live migrate
- [PR #15635][kubevirt-bot] Fixed priority escalation bug in migration controller
- [PR #15582][kubevirt-bot] Fix: grpc client in handler rest requests are properly closed
- [PR #15459][dasionov] bugfix: ensure grace period metadata cache is synced in virt-launcher
- [PR #15491][kubevirt-bot] Derive eviction-in-progress annotation from VMI eviction status
- [PR #15492][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: Unable to delete source VM on failed decentralized live migration
- [PR #15416][kubevirt-bot] bugfix: prevent VMSnapshotContent repeated update with the same error message
- [PR #15356][kubevirt-bot] bugfix: volume hotplug pod is no longer evicted when associated VM can live migrate.
- [PR #15384][kubevirt-bot] Aligning descheduler opt-out annotation name
- [PR #15338][kubevirt-bot] Common Names are now enforce for aggregated API
- [PR #15329][kubevirt-bot] bugfix: snapshot and restore now works correctly for VMs after a storage volume migration

All the new commits can be looked at by running

$ git log v1.6.0..v1.6.1

Thanks to everyone in the community for another release!

Greetings,

The KubeVirt Team