[Release] Update version to 8.16.6 (#3077)

elastic-vault-github-plugin-prod[bot] · elasticmachine · web-flow · commit 15bbbe1eb8b3 · 2025-03-04T02:26:40.000-08:00
[Release] update version

Co-authored-by: elasticmachine &lt;infra-root+elasticmachine@elastic.co&gt;
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 package version
 
 // name matches github.com/elastic/beats/v7/dev-tools/mage/settings.go parseBeatVersion
-const defaultBeatVersion = "8.16.5"
+const defaultBeatVersion = "8.16.6"
 
 // Version represents version information for a package
 type Version struct {
