16.9.5 and 16.9.6 are pretty solid from everything I have seen. I know 16.9.7 is out but I haven't had a need to upgrade to that. I have downgraded multiple stacks from 16.12.4 and 16.12.5 down to 16.9.6 and seen all the POE issues disappear.
Looks like "Global CX Centers - Enterprise Routing and Switching" and the Engineer has an San Jose area code. Not saying 16.12.5b wont work for people, but we have close to 600 3850 stacks in a healthcare environment. That is not counting the numer...
We opened a case with 16.12.3, 16.12.4 and 16.12.5 but we have not heard anything back. We have had too much downtime with the whole 16.12.x code train. We are going back to 16.9.6 on all 3850s as that is the last stable code for the 3850s in my op...
The bug is still in 16.12.5. After about 4 weeks of running the code, I had to downgrade around 20 3850 stacks back to 16.9.6 to remove the POE bug. I see 16.12.5b was released but I do not see a fix for the issue there either.