{"id":47281,"date":"2026-08-12T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webspellchecker.com\/?post_type=release_notes&#038;p=47281"},"modified":"2026-09-22T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:44:45","slug":"wproofreader-core-v6-16-0","status":"publish","type":"release_notes","link":"https:\/\/webspellchecker.com\/release-notes\/wproofreader-core-v6-16-0\/","title":{"rendered":"v6.16.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WProofreader core v6.16.0<\/strong> introduces a new licensing system with product grants, usage limits, and version restrictions, improves English grammar corrections reliability, updates the third-party grammar engine, addresses a high-severity security vulnerability, and expands spelling dictionaries with 1,960+ new words across nine languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-tl-dr\">\ud83d\udcdd TL;DR<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Introduced a new v4 license format with product grants, usage limits, and version restrictions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Self-hosted customers must reactivate their license after upgrading to v6.16.0 (see breaking changes below)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed a high-severity security vulnerability, <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2026-40984\">CVE-2026-40984<\/a>, in a LanguageTool dependency<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added the new <code>license_status<\/code> command and improved license expiration reporting and warnings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Updated the third-party grammar engine (LanguageTool) to the 2026-08-03 release<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expanded spelling dictionaries with 1,960+ new words across nine languages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-important-change-for-self-hosted-clients\">\u26a0\ufe0f Important change for self-hosted clients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Self-hosted customers must reactivate their license after every WProofreader version upgrade, starting with v6.16.0. This confirms the upgraded version complies with the license&#8217;s version restrictions. Reactivate your license right after upgrading to avoid service interruption. Review license activation documentation on <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.wproofreader.com\/deployment\/licensing\/license-activation-on-linux\">Linux<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.wproofreader.com\/deployment\/licensing\/license-deactivation-on-windows\">Windows<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.wproofreader.com\/deployment\/licensing\/license-activation-in-docker\">Docker<\/a> for more information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udee0 Enhancements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Licensing<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Introduced a new <strong>v4 license format<\/strong> that supports product grants, usage limits, and version restrictions. Licenses now define product entitlements and upgrade eligibility directly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added the new <code>license_status<\/code> API command for retrieving license information. Review <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.wproofreader.com\/api-reference\/auxiliary-api-commands\/license-status\">License status documentation<\/a> for more details.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improved license expiration reporting to show exact remaining time in days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Status messages now use clearer <em>License expires in<\/em> wording.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added a license expiration warning during the final 24 hours before expiration, providing an additional reminder to renew the license before service interruption.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-deployment\">Deployment<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Docker containers sometimes failed to activate the license after restarting with a new license ticket and an empty <em>license.xml<\/em> file. This now works correctly, including for setups that store the license directory in a mounted volume.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grammar<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Updated the third-party grammar engine (LanguageTool) to the 2026-08-03 release.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improved English grammar rules with clearer corrections and fewer false positives:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fixed a false comma suggestion before <em>and<\/em> in sentences using the fixed phrase <em>every now and then<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stopped incorrectly flagging <em>pretrain<\/em> as missing an infinitive, since it can function as a noun in specialized texts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stopped incorrectly flagging <em>am<\/em> in sentences with a name or title in between, as in <em>I, John Smith, CMO of XXX, am writing to confirm&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added suggestions to capitalize and punctuate interjections at the start of a sentence: <em>ahh finally<\/em> \u2192 <em>Ahh, finally<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added suggestions to punctuate sentences starting with an interjection followed by <em>that<\/em>: <em>wow that was close<\/em> \u2192 <em>Wow, that was close<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-spelling\">Spelling<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Expanded dictionaries with 1,960+ new words across English, German, Spanish, Arabic, Norwegian, Italian, Albanian, Greek, and Portuguese. New words cover everyday, scientific, and specialized vocabulary.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enriched shared cross-language dictionaries with 26 new proper names and abbreviations, covering software, legal, medical, and technology terms, such as <em>AgentCore, GPLv2<\/em>, and <em>eSIM<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enhanced medical vocabulary for English, German, and Spanish with 820+ new terms, abbreviations, and disease names, such as <em>cryofixation<\/em> (English), <em>Leukozyten<\/em> (German), and <em>sonograf\u00eda<\/em> (Spanish).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expanded English dialect coverage with 10 new word pairs, such as <em>conization<\/em> and <em>conisation<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improved autocorrect and spelling suggestions for Arabic, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, German, and English, targeting common misspellings and dialectal variants, such as<em> tr\u00f8t \u2192 tr\u00f8tt <\/em>in Norwegian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udee1 Security<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul 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