Hot on the heels of Release 15 comes Release 16.

This release deals with some issues that have been discovered with the check for update feature of Release 15 and theforce_every andtrigger_exclude features, so that it now works correctly with those features.

It also features these items:

• a new--check-for-work mode of run_branches.pl
  This mode doesn't do any work but exits with a zero status if there is work to do and 1 if there is not. It is intended for use as an
  ExecCondition insystemd units
• up to date filtering now works with an explicit list of branches, as well as with key words likeALL
• reduce the verbosity ofAnother process holds the lock messages.
  These are now only emitted if theverbose setting is greater than 1
• update_personality now has options to change the owner name and owner email
  This was in Release 15 but was accidentally omitted from the release notes. Up to now the only way to change these was by action from
  the administrators.
• improve collection of logs in cross version upgrade testing