MLflow 2.16.1 release

[Ben Wilson]

MLflow 2.16.1 is a patch release that includes some minor feature improvements and addresses several bug fixes.

Features:

• [Tracing] Add Support for an Open Telemetry compatible exporter to configure external sinks for MLflow traces (#13118, @B-Step62)
• [Model Registry, AWS] Add support for utilizing AWS KMS-based encryption for the MLflow Model Registry (#12495, @artjen)
• [Model Registry] Add support for using the OSS Unity Catalog server as a Model Registry (#13034, #13065, #13066, @rohitarun-db)
• [Models] Introduce path-based transformers logging to reduce memory requirements for saving large transformers models (#13070, @B-Step62)

Bug fixes:

• [Tracking] Fix a data payload size issue with Model.get_tags_dict by eliminating the return of the internally-used config field (#13086, @harshilprajapati96)
• [Models] Fix an issue with LangChain Agents where sub-dependencies were not being properly extracted (#13105, @aravind-segu)
• [Tracking] Fix an issue where the wrong checkpoint for the current best model in auto checkpointing was being selected (#12981, @hareeen)
• [Tracking] Fix an issue where local timezones for trace initialization were not being taken into account in AutoGen tracing (#13047, @B-Step62)

Documentation updates:

• [Docs] Added RunLLM chat widget to MLflow’s documentation site (#13123, @likawind)

For a comprehensive list of changes, see the release change log, and check out the latest documentation on mlflow.org.

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