commit 35b59e4d57158e696feabc1ff7038da7d0cf3e1b
author David Pursehouse <dpursehouse@collab.net> Sat Oct 07 15:56:22 2017 +0900
committer Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com> Wed Oct 18 00:52:05 2017 +0000
tree 70524e3332a621938931b53aa510a74a50a3bdb6
parent a9fd908413ee33afeaf959abcb8f67db3a61ae49

Mention removal of VTL support in 2.16 release notes

Change-Id: I37089b680096e3852be7ae833e74d4d9e829b322

releases/2.16.md

diff --git a/releases/2.16.md b/releases/2.16.md
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--- a/releases/2.16.md
+++ b/releases/2.16.md
@@ -32,6 +32,15 @@
 indexes offline. These will automatically be reindexed by the online reindexer
 after starting Gerrit.
 
+### Support for Velocity templates removed
+
+In version 2.15 support for Soy templates was added. For backwards compatibility
+support for Velocity templates (VTL) was kept.
+
+In version 2.16 support for VTL is completely removed. Site administrators must
+replace any Velocity templates (*.vm) with the equivalent Soy templates before
+upgrading to this version.
+
 ## New Features
 
 ### REST API