We have release version 2.17 of the REST web services module. It is available for download on the module repository, and via maven.
This version includes a (minor) security fix for Security Advisory: 2017-02-02
Starting with the next module release, we will move to semantic versioning, i.e. the next minor release will be 2.18.0.
Due to user error on my part the file that I uploaded to modules.openmrs.org was incorrectly named webservices.rest-2.17.omod.jar instead of webservices.rest-2.17.omod.
I have fixed the filename on modules.openmrs.org, but if you downloaded this prior to today, you would need to manually rename the filename to remove the “.jar” before adding it to OpenMRS.