documentation: added release notes for 4.16.0

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+|RCE| 4.16.0 |RNS|
+------------------
+
+Release Date
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- 2019-02-15
+
+
+New Features
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+
+- Full-text search: added support for ElasticSearch 6.X (ES6)
+- Full-text search: Expose a quick way to search within repository groups using ES6.
+- Full-text search: Add quick links to broaden/narrow search scope to repositories or
+  repository groups from global search.
+- Full-text search: ES6 backend adds new highlighter, and search markers for better UX when searching.
+- Full-text search: ES6 backend has enabled advanced `query string syntax`
+  adding more search and filtering capabilities.
+- Full-text search: ES6 engine will now show added information where available such as line numbers file size.
+- Files: added option to use highlight marker to show keywords inside file source. This
+  is used now for ES6 backend extended highlighting capabilities
+- Artifacts (beta): EE edition exposes new feature called storage_api this allows storing
+  binary files outside of Version Control System, but in the scope of a repository or group.
+  This will soon become an Artifacts functionality available in EE edition.
+- Authentication: introduced `User restriction` and `Scope restriction` for RhodeCode authentication plugins.
+  Admins can limit usage of RhodeCode plugins to super-admins user types, and usage in Web, or VCS protocol only.
+  This is mostly to help to migrate users to SAML, keeping the super-admins to manage instances via local-logins,
+  and secondly to force usage of AuthenticationTokens instead of re-using same credentials for
+  WEB and VCS authentication.
+- API: added basic upload API for the storage_api. It's possible to store files using internal
+  API. This is a start for attachments upload in RhodeCode.
+- API: added store_exception_api for remote exception storage. This is used by a new
+  indexer that will report any problems back into the RhodeCode instance in case of indexing problems.
+- API: added function to fetch comments for a repository.
+- Quick search: improve the styling of search input and results.
+- Pull requests: allowed to select all forks and parent forks of target repository in creation UI.
+  This is a common workflow supported by GitHub etc.
+
+
+General
+^^^^^^^
+
+- Users/Repositories/Repository groups: expose IDs of those objects in advanced views.
+  Useful for API calls or usage in ishell.
+- UI: moved repo group select next to the name as it's very relevant to each other.
+- Pull requests: increase the stability of concurrent pull requests created.
+- Pull requests: introduced operation state for pull requests to prevent from
+  locks during merge/update operations in concurrent busy environments.
+- Pull requests: ensure that merge response provide more details about failed operations.
+- UI / Files: expose downloads options onto files view similar as in summary page.
+- Repositories: show hooks version and update link in the advanced section of repository page.
+- Events: trigger 'review_status_change' in all cases when reviewers are changed
+  influencing review status.
+- Files: display submodules in a sorted way, equal to how Directories are sorted.
+- API: fetching all pull-requests now sorts the results and exposed a flag to show/hide
+  the merge result state for faster result fetching.
+- API: merge_pull_request expose detailed merge message in the merge operation
+  next to numeric merge response code.
+- API: added possibility to specify owner to create_pull_request API.
+- SSH: Added ability to disable server-side SSH key generation to enforce users
+  generated SSH keys only outside of the server.
+- Integrations: allow PUT method for WebHook integration.
+- Dependencies: bumped git to 2.19.2 release.
+- Dependencies: dropped pygments-markdown-lexer as it's natively supported by pygments now.
+- Dependencies: bumped pyramid to 1.10.1
+- Dependencies: bumped pastedeploy to 2.0.1
+- Dependencies: bumped pastescript to 3.0.0
+- Dependencies: bumped pathlib2 to 2.3.3
+- Dependencies: bumped webob to 1.8.4
+- Dependencies: bumped iso8601 to 0.1.12
+- Dependencies: bumped more-itertools to 5.0.0
+- Dependencies: bumped psutil to 5.4.8
+- Dependencies: bumped pyasn1 to 0.4.5
+- Dependencies: bumped pygments to 2.3.1
+- Dependencies: bumped pyramid-debugtoolbar to 4.5.0
+- Dependencies: bumped subprocess32 to 3.5.3
+- Dependencies: bumped supervisor to 3.3.5
+- Dependencies: bumped dogpile.cache to 0.7.1
+- Dependencies: bumped simplejson to 3.16.0
+- Dependencies: bumped gevent to 1.4.0
+- Dependencies: bumped configparser to 3.5.1
+
+
+Security
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- Fork page: don't expose fork origin link if we don't have permission to access this repository.
+  Additionally don't pre-select such repository in pull request ref selector.
+- Security: fix possible XSS in the issue tracker URL.
+- Security: sanitize plaintext renderer with bleach, preventing XSS in rendered html.
+- Audit logs: added audit logs for API permission calls.
+
+
+Performance
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Summary page: don't load repo size when showing expanded information about repository.
+  Size calculation needs to be triggered manually.
+- Git: use rev-list for fetching last commit data in case of single commit history.
+  In some cases, it is much faster than previously used git log command.
+
+
+Fixes
+^^^^^
+
+- Installer: fixed 32bit package builds broken in previous releases.
+- Git: use iterative fetch to prevent errors about too many arguments on
+  synchronizing very large repositories.
+- Git: pass in the SSL dir that is exposed from wire for remote GIT commands.
+- LDAP+Groups: improve logging, and fix the case when extracting group name from LDAP
+  returned nothing. We should warn about that, but not FAIL on login.
+- Default reviewers: fixed submodule support in picking reviewers from annotation for files.
+- Hooks: handle non-ascii characters in hooks new pull-requests open template.
+- Diffs: fixed missing limited diff container display on over-size limit diffs.
+- Diffs: fixed 500 error in case of some very uncommon diffs containing only Unicode characters.
+- Repositories: handle VCS backend unavailable correctly in advanced settings for the repository.
+- Remap & rescan: prevent empty/damaged repositories to break the remap operation.
+- Visual: fixed show revision/commit length settings.
+- Mercurial submodules: only show submodule in the path that it belongs too.
+  Before even submodules from root node were shown in subdirectories.
+- UI/Files: fixed icons in file tree search.
+- WebHook integration: quote URL variables to prevent URL errors with special chars
+  like # in the title.
+- API: pull-requests, fixed invocation of merge as another user.
+- VCS: limit fd leaks on subprocessio calls.
+- VCS: expose SSL certificate path over the wire to the vcsserver, this solves some
+  remote SSL import problems reported.
+
+
+Upgrade notes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+This release brings the new Full-text search capabilities using ElasticSearch 6.
+If you use Elastic Search backend a backward compatibility mode is enabled and
+ElasticSearch backend defaults to previously used ElasticSearch 2.
+
+To use new features a full index rebuild is required, in addition ```--es-version=6``` flag
+needs to be used with indexer and ```search.es_version = 6``` should be set in rhodecode.ini
+
+Additionally new mapping format is available for the indexer that has additional capabilities
+for include/exclude rules. Old format should work as well, but we encourage to
+generate a new mapping.ini file using rhodecode-index command, and migrate your repositories
+to the new format.
+
+Please refer to the :ref:`indexing-ref` documentation for more details.
+

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+   release-notes-4.16.0.rst
    release-notes-4.15.2.rst
    release-notes-4.15.1.rst
    release-notes-4.15.0.rst