The Switch 16.0.3 system update was released on May 9, 2023 (UTC). This Switch update was released for the following regions: ALL, and CHN.

Security flaws fixed: <fill this in manually later, see the updatedetails page from the ninupdates-report page(s) once available for now>.

Additionally, a rebootless system update was released updating NgWord/NgWord2 for 16.0.3 on May 30, 2023 (UTC). Likewise again on June 27, 2023 (UTC).

Change-log

Official ALL change-log:

  • General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.

System Titles

Only SystemVersion and BootImagePackages were updated.

NPDM changes (besides usual version-bump): none.

RomFs changes:

BootImagePackages

Only package2 was updated. The kernel was not updated. All KIPs other than FS were only re-built (only difference is GNU build hash).

FS

  • Mutex lock and unlock were added to some SaveData functions which were previously missing them.
    • In particular, this is nn::fs::save::SaveDataFileSystemCore::HasOpenedFiles and nn::fs::save::SaveDataFileSystemCore::HasOpenedEntries.

See Also

System update report(s):


Nintendo Switch System Versions
1.0.0
2.0.02.1.02.2.02.3.0
3.0.03.0.13.0.2
4.0.04.0.14.1.0
5.0.05.0.15.0.25.1.0
6.0.06.0.16.1.06.2.0
7.0.07.0.1
8.0.08.0.18.1.08.1.1
9.0.09.0.19.1.09.2.0
10.0.010.0.110.0.210.0.310.0.410.1.010.1.110.2.0
11.0.011.0.1
12.0.012.0.112.0.212.0.312.1.0
13.0.013.1.013.2.013.2.1
14.0.014.1.014.1.114.1.2
15.0.015.0.1
16.0.016.0.116.0.216.0.316.1.0
17.0.017.0.1
18.0.018.0.118.1.0
19.0.019.0.1