Hi everyone!

Minor release of Totara Social 2.16 is out! This release contains a database upgrade and API changes required for performance improvements in the activity stream and access checks. We recommend to always pefrom backups of your database before running database upgrades.

Here is the changelog for Totara Social 2.16 release:

Release 2.16 (29th March 2017)
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Improvements:
    TS-1164    Added asynchronous loading of the activity stream to prevent
               pages from becoming unresponsive while activities are loading

API changes and DB upgrades:
    TS-1161    Performance improvements in activity stream and access checks:
               - added 'owner' column to the 'activity' table
               - added $ownerfield parameter to several access check methods (see
                 upgrade.txt for more information)

Bug fixes:
    TS-1140    Removed failed database connection details from the error message