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+# OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards 1.3.16 Release Notes
+
+## Release Details
+
+[OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards 1.3.16](https://opensearch.org/versions/opensearch-1-3-16.html) includes the following bug fixes, documentation and maintenance updates.
+
+OpenSearch [Release Notes](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/blob/main/release-notes/opensearch.release-notes-1.3.16.md).
+
+## BUG FIXES
+
+
+### OpenSearch Security
+
+
+* Allow TransportConfigUpdateAction when security config initialization has completed ([#4115](https://github.com/opensearch-project/security/pull/4115))
+
+
+### OpenSearch Security Dashboards Plugin
+
+
+* Split up a value into multiple cookie payloads ([#1831](https://github.com/opensearch-project/security-dashboards-plugin/pull/1831))
+
+
+## DOCUMENTATION
+
+
+### OpenSearch Index Management
+
+
+* Version 1.3.16 release notes ([#1156](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management/pull/1156))
+
+
+## MAINTENANCE
+
+
+### OpenSearch Index Management
+
+
+* Increment version to 1.3.16 ([#1131](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management/pull/1131))
+* Force resolve logback deps to mitigate CVE-2023-6378 ([#1125](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management/pull/1125))
+
+
+### OpenSearch Performance Analyzer
+
+
+* Bump netty to match version from core's buildSrc/version.properties and bump grpc to 1.56.1 ([#546](https://github.com/opensearch-project/performance-analyzer-rca/pull/546))
+
+
+### OpenSearch Reporting
+
+
+* Upgrade JSON to 20231013 to fix CVE-2023-5072 ([#986](https://github.com/opensearch-project/reporting/pull/986))
+
+
+### OpenSearch Security
+
+
+* Force resolution of org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper to 3.9.2 and org.bitbucket.b\_c:jose4j to 0.9.4 ([#4136](https://github.com/opensearch-project/security/pull/4136))
+* Integration Tests for Security Config Initialization ([#4134](https://github.com/opensearch-project/security/pull/4134))
+* Remove and refactor console print statements ([#4206](https://github.com/opensearch-project/security/pull/4206))
+
+