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0.16.2 (2026-04-14)

This is the hot fix for 0.16.x versions.

Fixed issues:

• fix: refactor Poller context handling to use pointer instead of wrapper (#4509)
• fix(validator): wrong jump end offset of try_table
• fix(api): guard WasmEdge_StringCopy against null Buf (#4686)
• fix(cli): handle invalid numeric arguments gracefully (#4602)
• fix(compiler): error on LLVM-22 (#4696)
• fix(executor): ref type for uninit values in table (#4764)
• fix(executor): normalize null ref types for locals and AOT (#4772)
• fix(test): disable LTO in tensorflow plugin tests of manylinux (#4766)
• fix(test): split poll socket tests to isolate flaky cycle 2 (#4747)

Tests:

• test: add C-API boundary test for empty strings

CI:

• fix(ci): fix riscv CI fail
• fix(ci): dependency installation on riscv (#4722)
• fix(ci): cache lld pre-built on macOS workflow (#4753)
• fix(ci): new content for wasi-testsuite (#4751)
• refactor(ci): optimize workflows (#4544)
• Bumped CI dependencies

Thank all the contributors who made this release possible!

Divyansh Khatri, Karan Lokchandani, Meet Jain, SANCHIT KUMAR, SriramB, Vishal Malyan, Wang-Yang Li, Yi-Ying He, hydai, piyush kumar

If you want to build from source, please use WasmEdge-0.16.2-src.tar.gz instead of the zip or tarball provided by GitHub directly.