📋 Description

Adds details of the following due in 16.2:

• An abstraction introduced around boot time checks for database availability, from PR Adds abstraction around boot time checks for database availability Umbraco-CMS#19848 addressing issue BootFailed Cannot Connect To Database Umbraco-CMS#17363,
• An abstraction introduced around the creation of an encoder for JSON serialization from Provides an abstraction for creating the JavaScriptEncoder used in SystemTextConfigurationEditorJsonSerializer Umbraco-CMS#19849 addressing issue System.Text.Json.Utf8JsonWriter - how to prevent breaking Unicode characters into escape sequences Umbraco-CMS#19812
• The UseStrictDomainMatching configuration option from Added configuration option UseStrictDomainMatching, which allows control over whether content is routed without a matching domain Umbraco-CMS#19815 addressing issue UrlProviderMode Absolute not honered during routing Umbraco-CMS#19010

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Product & Version (if relevant)

CMS 16.2

Deadline (if relevant)

On 21st August to coincide with the 16.2 release candidate release.