Merge pull request #314578 from kevinhwang-microsoft/main

bump addon to 1.16.1

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/governance/policy/concepts/policy-for-kubernetes.md

@@ -610,12 +610,12 @@ Finally, to identify the AKS cluster version that you're using, follow the linke
 
 ### Add-on versions available per each AKS cluster version
 
-#### 1.16.0
+#### 1.16.1
 Introducing Validating Admission Policy (VAP) generation. [Validating Admission Policies](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/validating-admission-policy/) are Kubernetes-native validating policy resources that are evaluated in-process, allowing for reduced latency and fail-close evaluation. Azure Policies that contain Common Expression Language (CEL) will automatically generate VAPs. For more information, view the [Gatekeeper Documentation](https://open-policy-agent.github.io/gatekeeper/website/docs/validating-admission-policy/).
-Patch CVE-2026-25679, CVE-2026-27142, and CVE-2026-27139.
+Patch CVE-2026-25679, CVE-2026-27142, CVE-2026-27139, and CVE-2026-32280.
 Security improvements.
-- Released: Apr 2026
-- Kubernetes: 1.29+
+- Released: May 2026
+- Kubernetes: 1.36+
 - Gatekeeper: 3.22.0
 
 ##### Gatekeeper 3.22.0