Update dependency azure-identity to v1.16.1 [SECURITY]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
azure-identity	==1.13.0 → ==1.16.1

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2024-35255

Azure Identity Libraries and Microsoft Authentication Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability.

Severity

• CVSS Score: 6.8 / 10 (Medium)
• Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Release Notes

Azure/azure-sdk-for-python (azure-identity)

v1.16.1

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1.16.1 (2024-06-11)

Bugs Fixed

• Managed identity bug fixes

v1.16.0

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1.16.0 (2024-04-09)

Other Changes

• For IMDS requests in ManagedIdentityCredential, the retry backoff factor was reduced from 2 to 0.8 in order to avoid excessive retry delays and improve responsiveness. Users can customize this setting with the retry_backoff_factor parameter: ManagedIdentityCredential(retry_backoff_factor=2). (#​35070)

v1.15.0

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1.15.0 (2026-02-03)

Bugs Fixed

• Prevent recursive stdout/stderr forwarding when NodeLogManager is nested, avoiding RecursionError in concurrent evaluation runs.

v1.14.1

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1.14.1 (2023-10-09)

Bugs Fixed

• Bug fixes for developer credentials

v1.14.0

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1.14.0 (2026-01-05)

Bugs Fixed

• Updated CodeVulnerability and UngroundedAttributes evaluators for RedTeam to use the binary true/false scoring pattern so their results align with service responses.
• Fixed GroundednessEvaluator with query not honoring is_reasoning_model (and credential) when reloading the query prompty, which could cause max_tokens to be sent to reasoning models. #​44385

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