v16.0.0

This release brings technical breaking changes or renamings (⚠️) which might require migrating to a newer Node.js version or updating existing customization files.

👟 Runtime

• Added support for Node.js 21.x
• Removed support for Node.js 16.x and no longer provide packaged distributions for this version (⚠️)
• Removed inofficial support for Node.js 17.x

🎨 UI

• 1946f2e: The new Score Board introduced with v15.1.0 is now the default
• Inverted banners and option to switch layouts to allow setting the legacy Score Board as default
• #2152: Enchanced scrolling behavior in Coding Challenge modal to keep buttons always visible (kudos to @bogminic)

🕵️ Cheat Detection

• #2150: Switched to median instead of average to calculate total cheat score
• Monitor and report on expected URL interactions to happen before related challenges are solved (no score impact yet)

🔙 Backward compatibility

• #2149: Links to /#/score-board?challenge=<name> will now be rewritten into /#/score-board?searchQuery= to keep existing OpenCRE links working

⚙️ DevOps Automation

• Update default Node.js version for non-matrix build jobs to 20.x
• Update Node.js version in base Docker images to 20.x