Conary v0.16.1 synchronized suite

Conary v0.16.1 synchronized pre-alpha suite

This one source release contains the Conary, Remi, conaryd, and
conary-test artifacts at version 0.16.1. It is an early preview
for disposable, snapshotted, or explicitly non-critical systems, not
a production recommendation.

Artifact evaluation boundary

The Conary native packages target x86_64 Fedora 44, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS,
and Arch Linux. Publication and released-package proof do not make
this the pinned external-tester release. The ordinary-package corpus
gate remains separately owned by issue #110, and the tester loop stays
paused until that gate and the release closeout are recorded.

Download SHA256SUMS and the required artifact. Native Conary
packages are named:

• Fedora 44: conary-0.16.1-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm
• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: conary_0.16.1-1_amd64.deb
• Arch Linux: conary-0.16.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

The release-owned bootstrap entry point downloads and verifies the
product-signed conary-bootstrap-v1.manifest, selects only the
exact supported host artifact, and defaults to a non-mutating preview:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fLO https://conary.io/install-conary-preview.sh
less install-conary-preview.sh
bash ./install-conary-preview.sh
bash ./install-conary-preview.sh --apply --yes

Do not pipe the installer into a shell. The explicit apply mode uses
the native package manager only to install Conary itself; the package
owns system initialization and built-in repository enrollment.

Verify downloaded files with:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing

The release also contains raw and tarred Linux x86_64 binaries for
Remi, conaryd, and conary-test. SBOM and provenance sidecars are not
published yet.

Defects can be reported with the pre-alpha tester feedback template.

Changes

What's Changed

• release: prepare v0.16.1 after reserved tag by @TusanHomichi in #489

Full Changelog: v0.16.0...v0.16.1