Ghost 2.16.3 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

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🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Ghost 2.16.3. Source highlight: ⚠️ **2.16.3 contains a critical bug that may result in your site appearing in private mode.** ⚠️

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🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

🐛 Fixed 500 error when an unknown field was passed in the `fields` API param
🐛 Fixed `fields` param having no effect for `/authors/:id` and `/tags/:id` endpoints
🐛 Fixed 404 when trying to update `codeinjection_*` settings in Admin API v2
🐛 Fixed collection naming when specifying keys in a route's `data` property (see https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/10434) (TryGhost/Ghost#10559)
🐛 Fixed "value" properties sometimes being missing in settings endpoint in Admin API v2
🐛 Fixed `excerpt` property being missing if `plaintext` is NULL or "" in posts endpoint

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

⚠️ **2.16.3 contains a critical bug that may result in your site appearing in private mode.** ⚠️ Please use 2.16.4 or later instead. * 🐛 Fixed 500 error when an unknown field was passed in the `fields` API param * 🐛 Fixed `fields` param having no effect for `/authors/:id` and `/tags/:id` endpoints * 🐛 Fixed 404 when trying to update `codeinjection_*` settings in Admin API v2 * 🐛 Fixed collection naming when specifying keys in a route's `data` property (see https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/10434) (TryGhost/Ghost#10559) * 🐛 Fixed "value" properties sometimes being missing in settings endpoint in Admin API v2 * 🐛 Fixed `excerpt` property being missing if `plaintext` is NULL or "" in posts endpoint * 🐛 Fixed `plaintext` field not being cleared when post body is removed * 🐛 Fixed "false" not being recognised in `absolute` attribute value of `{{url absolute="false"}}` helper (TryGhost/Ghost#10556) * 🐛 Fixed `{{excerpt}}` helper sometimes displaying `null` * 🐛 Fixed AMP pages being empty * 🐛 Fixed `{{url}}` output when using `{{#next_post}}`/`{{#prev_post}}` You can see the [full change log](https://gist.github.com/1f2426e0907928e6368b2413a90c108f) for the details of every change included in this release.

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