diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index a40fa25f8fe..7c591380687 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ updates:
     schedule:
       interval: "daily"
     labels:
+      - '6.16.z'
       - "CherryPick"
       - "dependencies"
       - "6.15.z"
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ updates:
     schedule:
       interval: "daily"
     labels:
+      - '6.16.z'
       - "CherryPick"
       - "dependencies"
       - "6.15.z"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/auto_branching.yml b/.github/workflows/auto_branching.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6afb0cfa164..00000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/auto_branching.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,317 +0,0 @@
-### The auto-branching workflow triggered through a dispatch request from the CI
-name: auto-branching
-
-# Run on workflow dispatch from CI
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      target_branch:
-        type: string
-        description: branch to be created from the master
-      stream_version:
-        type: string
-        description: new stream version of satellite
-
-jobs:
-  check-group-membership:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    outputs:
-      member: ${{steps.check_membership.outputs.member}}
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Check if the user is a member of repository-admins group
-        id: check_membership
-        run: |
-          # Use GitHub API to check if the user triggering the workflow is a member of satellite-admin group
-          MEMBER=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: token ${{ secrets._REPO_ADMIN_TOKEN }}" \
-              "https://api.github.com/orgs/satelliteQE/teams/repository-admins/memberships/${{ github.actor }}")
-          if [[ $(echo "$MEMBER" | jq -r '.state') == "active" ]]; then
-            echo "User is a member of satellite-admin group."
-            echo "member=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          else
-            echo "User is not a member of satellite-admin group."
-            echo "member=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-            exit 1
-          fi
-
-  auto-branching-new-downstream-release:
-    name: ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} - raise PR with changes
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: check-group-membership
-    if: ${{ needs.check-group-membership.outputs.member == 'true' }}
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Create the ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} branch
-        id: create-branch
-        uses: peterjgrainger/action-create-branch@v3.0.0
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets._REPO_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
-        with:
-          branch: ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}
-
-      - name: Create label for the ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} branch
-        id: create-label
-        run: |
-          curl -X POST \
-            -H "Authorization: token ${{ secrets._REPO_ADMIN_TOKEN }}" \
-            -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
-            https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository }}/labels \
-            -d "{\"name\":\"${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}\",\"color\":\"fbca04\"}"
-
-      - name: Switch to ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} branch
-        run: git checkout -b "${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}"
-
-      - name: Checkout from ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} branch for auto-branching changes
-        id: checkout-to-auto-branch
-        run: |
-            branch_name="auto-branching-${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}-$(date '+%s')"
-            git checkout -b "$branch_name"
-            echo "branch_name=$branch_name" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      - name: Update target branch label in dependabot yml file
-        id: update-dependabot
-        run: |
-            # Read the dependabot.yml file
-            FILE_PATH="./.github/dependabot.yml"
-            TARGET_BRANCH="${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}"
-            # Append the target branch label to the labels node
-            awk -v target="'$TARGET_BRANCH'" '/^ *labels:/ {$0 = $0 "\n      - " target} 1' "$FILE_PATH" > temp.yml && mv temp.yml "$FILE_PATH"
-
-      - name: Update repository URLs in requirements.txt
-        id: update-repo-urls
-        run: |
-            # Define the file path
-            FILE_PATH="./requirements.txt"
-            # Define the replacement strings
-            replacements=(
-              "airgun @ git+https://github.com/SatelliteQE/airgun.git@master#egg=airgun|airgun @ git+https://github.com/SatelliteQE/airgun.git@${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}#egg=airgun"
-              "nailgun @ git+https://github.com/SatelliteQE/nailgun.git@master#egg=nailgun|nailgun @ git+https://github.com/SatelliteQE/nailgun.git@${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}#egg=nailgun"
-            )
-            # Create a temporary file
-            TEMP_FILE=$(mktemp)
-            # Perform replacements using a for loop
-            for replacement in "${replacements[@]}"; do
-              old_url=$(echo "$replacement" | cut -d'|' -f1)
-              new_url=$(echo "$replacement" | cut -d'|' -f2)
-              sed "s|${old_url}|${new_url}|g" "$FILE_PATH" > "$TEMP_FILE" && mv "$TEMP_FILE" "$FILE_PATH"
-            done
-
-      - name: Remove the dispatch release GHA
-        id: remove-dispatch-release-gha
-        run: |
-            rm -rf ./.github/workflows/dispatch_release.yml
-            rm -rf ./.github/workflows/auto_branching.yml
-
-      - name: Remove lines with @pytest.mark.stream
-        id: remove-mark-stream
-        run: |
-           # Loop through files in the folder
-           grep -rl "tests/foreman" -e '@pytest\.mark\.stream' | while IFS= read -r file; do
-            awk '!/@pytest\.mark\.stream/' "$file" > temp && mv temp "$file"
-           done
-
-      - name: Update version in setup.py
-        run: sed -i "s/version=['\"][0-9.]*['\"]\+/version='${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}'/" setup.py
-
-      - name: Update the Constants in __init__.py file
-        run: |
-          old_url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SatelliteQE/robottelo/master/tests/foreman/data/uri.sh"
-          new_url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SatelliteQE/robottelo/${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}/tests/foreman/data/uri.sh"
-          FILE_PATH="./robottelo/constants/__init__.py"
-          awk '/SAT_NON_GA_VERSIONS =/ { sub(/\[[^,]*, /, "[", $0) } 1' "$FILE_PATH" > temp && mv temp "$FILE_PATH"
-          sed -i.bak "s|${old_url}|${new_url}|" "$FILE_PATH"
-          rm "$FILE_PATH.bak"
-
-      - name: git status
-        run: git status
-
-      - name: git diff
-        run: git diff
-
-      - name: Commit changes
-        run: |
-          git config --local user.email Satellite-QE.satqe.com && git config --local user.name Satellite-QE
-          git add setup.py ./tests/foreman ./robottelo/* ./requirements.txt ./.github/*
-          git commit -m "Changes for ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} new branch"
-          git push origin ${{steps.checkout-to-auto-branch.outputs.branch_name}}
-
-      - name: Create pull request
-        id: create_pr
-        run: |
-          title="[${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}]: Changes for ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} new branch"
-          body="
-            ### Problem Statement
-            New ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} branch
-            ### Solution
-            - Dependabot labels are updated for new branch
-            - Removed dispatch release GHA from ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} as we are releasing only master changes
-            - Airgun and Nailgun Requirements uses ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} branch
-            - Constants are using new version now
-            - Stream tests removed
-            - Setup.py uses new version
-          "
-          pr_number=$(gh pr create --title "$title" --body "$body" --base "${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}" | awk -F'/' '{print $NF}')
-          echo "$pr_number"
-          echo "pr_number=$pr_number" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets._REPO_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
-
-      - name: Add the prt comment for running the sanity tests
-        id: add-parent-prt-comment
-        uses: thollander/actions-comment-pull-request@v2
-        with:
-          message: |
-            trigger: test-robottelo
-          pr_number: ${{ steps.create_pr.outputs.pr_number }}
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets._REPO_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
-
-      - name: add the no-cherrypick label
-        uses: actions/github-script@v7
-        with:
-          github-token: ${{ secrets._REPO_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
-          script: |
-            github.rest.issues.addLabels({
-              issue_number: ${{ steps.create_pr.outputs.pr_number }},
-              owner: context.repo.owner,
-              repo: context.repo.repo,
-              labels: ["No-CherryPick"]
-            })
-
-  branch-protection:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: auto-branching-new-downstream-release
-    if: success()
-    steps:
-      - name: Create branch protection
-        run: |
-          TOKEN=${{ secrets._REPO_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
-          OWNER=${{ github.repository_owner }}
-          REPO=${{ github.event.repository.name }}
-          BRANCH="${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}" # Adjust branch name as needed
-          # Branch protection payload
-          PROTECTION_PAYLOAD='{
-            "required_status_checks": {
-                "strict": true,
-                "contexts": ["Code Quality (3.10)", "Code Quality (3.11)", "Code Quality (3.12)", "Enforcing cherrypick labels"]
-            },
-            "required_linear_history": true,
-            "enforce_admins": null,
-            "required_pull_request_reviews": null,
-            "restrictions": null,
-            "allow_force_pushes": null,
-            "allow_deletions": null
-          }'
-          # Call GitHub API to update branch protection
-          PROTECTION_RESPONSE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" \
-              -X PUT \
-              -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.luke-cage-preview+json" \
-              -H "Authorization: token $TOKEN" \
-              -d "$PROTECTION_PAYLOAD" \
-              "https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/branches/$BRANCH/protection")
-
-          if [[ $PROTECTION_RESPONSE -eq 200 ]]; then
-            echo "Branch protection successfully updated."
-            echo "protection-outcome=success" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          else
-            echo "Failed to update branch protection. HTTP status code: $PROTECTION_RESPONSE"
-            echo "protection-outcome=failure" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-
-  auto-branching-master:
-    name: master - raise PR with changes
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: check-group-membership
-    if: ${{ needs.check-group-membership.outputs.member == 'true' }}
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout Robottelo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Update target branch label in dependabot yml file
-        id: update-dependabot
-        run: |
-          # Read the dependabot.yml file
-          FILE_PATH="./.github/dependabot.yml"
-          TARGET_BRANCH="${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}"
-          # Append the target branch label to the labels node
-          awk -v target="'$TARGET_BRANCH'" '/^ *labels:/ {$0 = $0 "\n      - " target} 1' "$FILE_PATH" > temp.yml && mv temp.yml "$FILE_PATH"
-
-      - name: Remove lines with @pytest.mark.stream
-        id: remove-mark-stream
-        run: |
-          # Loop through files in the folder
-          grep -rl "tests/foreman" -e '@pytest\.mark\.stream' | while IFS= read -r file; do
-           awk '!/@pytest\.mark\.stream/' "$file" > temp && mv temp "$file"
-          done
-
-      - name: Update the Constants in __init__.py file
-        run: |
-          version="${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}"
-          ga_version="${{ github.event.inputs.ga_version }}"
-          old_stream_version="${version%.z}"
-          new_stream_version="${{ github.event.inputs.stream_version }}"
-          non_ga_versions="['$old_stream_version', '$new_stream_version']"
-          FILE_PATH="./robottelo/constants/__init__.py"
-          # update the version
-          sed -i.bak "s/SATELLITE_VERSION = \"$old_stream_version\"/SATELLITE_VERSION = \"$new_stream_version\"/" "$FILE_PATH"
-          sed -i.bak "s/  SATELLITE_VERSION: \"$old_stream_version\"/  SATELLITE_VERSION: \"$new_stream_version\"/" ./conf/robottelo.yaml.template
-          sed -i.bak "s/SAT_NON_GA_VERSIONS = \[.*\]/SAT_NON_GA_VERSIONS = $non_ga_versions/" "$FILE_PATH"
-          rm "$FILE_PATH.bak" "./conf/robottelo.yaml.template.bak"
-
-      - name: git status
-        run: git status
-
-      - name: git diff
-        run: git diff
-
-      - name: Commit changes
-        run: |
-          git config --local user.email "action@github.com"
-          git config --local user.name "GitHub Action"
-          branch_name="auto-branching-${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}-$(date '+%s')"
-          git checkout -b "$branch_name"
-          git add setup.py ./tests/foreman ./robottelo/* ./requirements.txt ./.github/* ./conf/robottelo.yaml.template
-          git commit -m "Changes for new ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} branch"
-          git remote -vvv
-          git push origin "$branch_name"
-
-      - name: Create pull request
-        id: create_pr
-        run: |
-          title="[master]: Changes for new ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} branch"
-          body="
-            ### Problem Statement
-            New ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} downstream and master points to stream that is ${{ github.event.inputs.stream_version }}
-            ### Solution
-            - Dependabot.yaml cherrypicks to ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}
-            - Robottelo conf and constants now uses ${{ github.event.inputs.stream_version }} and ${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }} satellite versions
-          "
-          pr_number=$(gh pr create --title "$title" --body "$body" --base "master" | awk -F'/' '{print $NF}')
-          echo "$pr_number"
-          echo "pr_number=$pr_number" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets._REPO_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
-
-      - name: Add the prt comment for running the sanity tests
-        id: add-parent-prt-comment
-        uses: thollander/actions-comment-pull-request@v2
-        with:
-          message: |
-            trigger: test-robottelo
-          pr_number: ${{ steps.create_pr.outputs.pr_number }}
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets._REPO_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
-
-      - name: add the no-cherrypick label
-        uses: actions/github-script@v7
-        with:
-          github-token: ${{ secrets._REPO_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
-          script: |
-            github.rest.issues.addLabels({
-              issue_number: ${{ steps.create_pr.outputs.pr_number }},
-              owner: context.repo.owner,
-              repo: context.repo.repo,
-              labels: ["No-CherryPick"]
-            })
diff --git a/.github/workflows/dispatch_release.yml b/.github/workflows/dispatch_release.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 51b6b90919a..00000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/dispatch_release.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-### The auto release workflow triggered through dispatch request from CI
-name: auto-release
-
-# Run on workflow dispatch from CI
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      tag_name:
-        type: string
-        description: Name of the tag
-
-jobs:
-  auto-tag-and-release:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Git User setup
-        run: "git config --local user.email Satellite-QE.satqe.com && git config --local user.name Satellite-QE"
-
-      - name: Tag latest commit
-        run: "git tag -a ${{ github.event.inputs.tag_name }} -m 'Tagged By SatelliteQE Automation User'"
-
-      - name: Push the tag to the upstream
-        run: "git push ${GITHUB_SERVER_URL}/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}.git --tags"
-
-      - name: create a new release from the tag
-        env:
-          credentials: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
-        run: "curl -L -X POST -H \"Authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.SATQE_GH_TOKEN }}\" ${GITHUB_API_URL}/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/releases -d '{\"tag_name\": \"${{ github.event.inputs.tag_name }}\", \"target_commitish\":\"master\", \"name\":\"${{ github.event.inputs.tag_name }}\", \"draft\":false, \"prerelease\":true, \"generate_release_notes\": true}'"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f4b9e00f413..3002c5c42a3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ wait-for==1.2.0
 wrapanapi==3.6.0
 
 # Get airgun, nailgun and upgrade from master
-airgun @ git+https://github.com/SatelliteQE/airgun.git@master#egg=airgun
-nailgun @ git+https://github.com/SatelliteQE/nailgun.git@master#egg=nailgun
+airgun @ git+https://github.com/SatelliteQE/airgun.git@6.16.z#egg=airgun
+nailgun @ git+https://github.com/SatelliteQE/nailgun.git@6.16.z#egg=nailgun
 --editable .
diff --git a/robottelo/constants/__init__.py b/robottelo/constants/__init__.py
index eda54a5c3f0..8edbd866573 100644
--- a/robottelo/constants/__init__.py
+++ b/robottelo/constants/__init__.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # This should be updated after each version branch
 SATELLITE_VERSION = "6.16"
 SATELLITE_OS_VERSION = "8"
-SAT_NON_GA_VERSIONS = ['6.15', '6.16']
+SAT_NON_GA_VERSIONS = ['6.16']
 
 # Default system ports
 HTTPS_PORT = '443'
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
 AZURERM_VM_SIZE_DEFAULT = 'Standard_B1s'
 AZURERM_PREMIUM_OS_Disk = True
 AZURERM_FILE_URI = (
-    'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SatelliteQE/robottelo/master/tests/foreman/data/uri.sh'
+    'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SatelliteQE/robottelo/6.16.z/tests/foreman/data/uri.sh'
 )
 
 OPERATING_SYSTEMS = entities._OPERATING_SYSTEMS
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7e0feb9f2b3..ef7d3b7d236 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='robottelo',
-    version='0.1.0',
+    version='6.16.z',
     description='Robottelo is a test suite which exercises The Foreman.',
     long_description=README,
     author='Satellite QE Team',
diff --git a/tests/foreman/cli/test_capsulecontent.py b/tests/foreman/cli/test_capsulecontent.py
index f0b00609b04..47441ec91db 100644
--- a/tests/foreman/cli/test_capsulecontent.py
+++ b/tests/foreman/cli/test_capsulecontent.py
@@ -306,7 +306,6 @@ def test_positive_update_counts(target_sat, module_capsule_configured):
     )
 
 
-@pytest.mark.stream
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('repair_type', ['repo', 'cv', 'lce'])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     'module_synced_content',
diff --git a/tests/foreman/installer/test_installer.py b/tests/foreman/installer/test_installer.py
index ae8ce8d3009..d562e1e5dd8 100644
--- a/tests/foreman/installer/test_installer.py
+++ b/tests/foreman/installer/test_installer.py
@@ -406,7 +406,6 @@ def test_positive_check_installer_hammer_ping(target_sat):
             assert 'ok' in line
 
 
-@pytest.mark.stream
 @pytest.mark.upgrade
 @pytest.mark.tier3
 @pytest.mark.build_sanity