chore: adds 4.16.0 release notes

content/en/core/releases/4.16.0.md

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+---
+title: "4.16.0 release notes"
+linkTitle: "4.16.0"
+weight:
+description: >
+relevantLinks: >
+toc_hide: true
+---
+
+## Known issues
+
+Check the repository for the [latest known issues](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Affects%3A+4.16.0%22).
+
+## Upgrade notes
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+None.
+
+### UI/UX changes
+
+None.
+
+## Highlights
+
+### Upgrading to CouchDb 3.4.2
+
+CouchDb 3.4.2 comes bundled by default with CHT-Core 4.16.0 and includes a multitude of improvements, including:
+- Adds Nouveau, an implementation of Lucene, which will be used in the near future for improved freetext searching
+- Improved security by adding a new, more secure and more performant password hashing algorithm 
+- An alternative Javascript view engine, which has improved performance when indexing views. The CHT is not yet ready for switching to this engine, as the two engines are not fully compatible, but will be in a future release.  
+
+The upgrade to the new version of CouchDb should be seamless and covered by the generic CHT-Core upgrade, without additional intervention. 
+
+### Arabic as CHT language
+
+The CHT is soon expanding its reach through adding support for Right-To-Left written languages. As part of the initial effort on this path, version 4.16.0 adds Arabic translations for Webapp, while the required UI changes for complete RTL support to be added in a future version.  
+
+## And more...
+
+### Improvements
+
+- [#9303](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9303): Upgrade to CouchDb 3.4.x
+
+### Security fixes
+
+- [#8338](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/8338): Research increasing pbkdf2 iterations
+
+### Performance improvements
+
+- [#9642](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9642): Bump changes_doc_ids_optimization_threshold for Couch 3.4
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- [#8626](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/8626): Contact summary page doesn't support svg icons
+- [#9213](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9213): Admin app allows navigating back after logout
+- [#9527](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9527): API logs error when privacy policies doc contains no privacy policies
+- [#9704](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9704): Crash when loading tasks/targets: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '_rev')
+- [#9714](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9714): Targets report 0/0 for some users after interval turnover
+- [#9715](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9715): Error when loading arabic language
+
+### Technical improvements
+
+- [#9471](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9471): UI Nav Work Image Replacement - Contact and User Management
+- [#9585](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9585): k3d tests frequently timeout
+- [#9660](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9660): Update e2e sync to better handle reload modal
+- [#9683](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9683): Add Arabic translations
+- [#9686](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9686): Validate CHT Version on Docker Helper
+- [#9695](https://github.com/medic/cht-core/issues/9695): Users API e2e test tries to run wdio commands
+
+
+
+## Contributors
+
+Thanks to all who committed changes for this release!
+
+- [Fred](https://github.com/freddieptf)
+- [Joshua Kuestersteffen](https://github.com/jkuester)
+- [Diana Barsan](https://github.com/dianabarsan)
+- [Jennifer Q](https://github.com/latin-panda)
+- [Tatiana Lépiz Soto](https://github.com/tatilepizs)
+- [Andra Blaj](https://github.com/andrablaj)
+- [Lore](https://github.com/lorerod)
+- [mrjones](https://github.com/mrjones-plip)
+- [Kenn Sippell](https://github.com/kennsippell)
+
+

content/en/core/releases/_index.md

@@ -22,12 +22,13 @@ It is recommended that all projects update regularly multiple times a year to ge
 
 | Version | Status    | Release date | End of life |
 |---------|-----------|--------------|-------------|
-| 4.15.x  | Supported | 20-Nov-2024  | TBA         |
+| 4.16.x  | Supported | 16-Jan-2025  | TBA         |
+| 4.15.x  | Supported | 20-Nov-2024  | 16-Apr-2025 |
 | 4.14.x  | Supported | 31-Oct-2024  | 20-Feb-2025 |
-| 4.13.x  | Supported | 22-Oct-2024  | 31-Jan-2025 |
-| 4.12.x  | Supported | 02-Oct-2024  | 22-Jan-2025 |
-| 4.11.x  | Supported | 26-Sep-2024  | 02-Jan-2025 |
-| 4.10.x  | Supported | 15-Aug-2024  | 26-Dec-2024 |
+| 4.13.x  | EOL       | 22-Oct-2024  | 31-Jan-2025 |
+| 4.12.x  | EOL       | 02-Oct-2024  | 22-Jan-2025 |
+| 4.11.x  | EOL       | 26-Sep-2024  | 02-Jan-2025 |
+| 4.10.x  | EOL       | 15-Aug-2024  | 26-Dec-2024 |
 | 4.9.x   | EOL       | 25-Jun-2024  | 15-Nov-2024 |
 | 4.8.x   | EOL       | 22-May-2024  | 25-Sep-2024 |
 | 4.7.x   | EOL       | 07-May-2024  | 22-Aug-2024 |
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 ## Release Notes
 
 ### 4.x
+- [4.16.0]({{% ref "core/releases/4.16.0.md" %}})
 - [4.15.0]({{% ref "core/releases/4.15.0.md" %}})
 - [4.14.0]({{% ref "core/releases/4.14.0.md" %}})
 - [4.13.0]({{% ref "core/releases/4.13.0.md" %}})

content/en/hosting/analytics/_index.md

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 Most CHT deployments require some sort of analytics so that stakeholders can make data driven decisions. CouchDB, which is the database used by the CHT, is not designed for analytics. It is a document database, which means that it is optimized for storing and retrieving documents, and not for aggregating data. For example, if you wanted to know how many patients were registered in a particular area, you would have to query the database for all the patients in that area, and then count them. This is not a very efficient process. It is much more efficient to store the number of patients in a particular area in a separate database, and update that number whenever a patient is registered or unregistered. This is what CHT Sync is designed to do.
 
-[CHT Sync]({{< relref "core/overview/cht-sync" >}}) is an integrated solution designed to enable data synchronization between CouchDB and PostgreSQL for the purpose of analytics. It has been designed to work in both local development environments for testing models or workflows, and in production environments. It can be deployed using [Docker or Kubernetes]({{< relref "hosting/kubernetes-vs-docker" >}}). It is supported on CHT 3.12 and later, including CHT 4.x. By using CHT Sync, a CHT deployment can easily get analytics by using a [data visualization tool]({{< relref "/dashboards" >}}), such as [Superset](https://superset.apache.org/). CHT Sync is open-source and has no licensing fees.
+[CHT Sync]({{< relref "core/overview/cht-sync" >}}) is an integrated solution designed to enable data synchronization between CouchDB and PostgreSQL for the purpose of analytics. It has been designed to work in both local development environments for testing models or workflows, and in production environments. It can be deployed using [Docker or Kubernetes]({{< relref "hosting/kubernetes-vs-docker" >}}). It is supported on CHT 3.12 and later, including CHT 4.x. By using CHT Sync, a CHT deployment can easily get analytics by using a [data visualization tool]({{< relref "hosting/analytics/dashboards" >}}), such as [Superset](https://superset.apache.org/). CHT Sync is open-source and has no licensing fees.