# 1.16.2-do.0

DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is a Kubernetes service with a fully managed control plane, high availability, and autoscaling. DOKS integrates with standard Kubernetes toolchains and DigitalOcean’s load balancers, volumes, CPU and GPU Droplets, API, and CLI.

- First 1.16.x release
- Upgrades to system components:

  - Updated to [Cilium v1.6.3](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.6.3)
  - Updated to [DO CCM 0.1.21](https://github.com/digitalocean/digitalocean-cloud-controller-manager/releases/tag/v0.1.21)
- Disabled Istio sidecar injection for kube-system namespace