My Opera gone bananas!

It's "patch day" and this means addition of new features, fixing and hopefully joy and excitement! We are very excited about this release for a number of reasons: First and foremost, we've made some very important changes to the friends system. You now have a list of pending requests with necessary action buttons.

You can also send your friends e-cards with an updated design! Simply hover a photo you've discovered on My Opera and choose from the new quick links to favorite, share or zoom in.

We are also very excited about the return of the affiliate program! We would personally like to thank all the beta testers for contributing with feedback how to improve the program! If you already have the "Download Opera" button activated on your page you're automatically particiating in the affiliate program and no further actions is needed, but if you're not, get started today!

We will come back with more information about the affiliate program later this week.

You can also read all about the markup changes for this release in our devblog.

Changelog for the banana release:

General:

• A lot of speed optimizations have been made to make My Opera load faster.
• Increased page width 40px for community pages.
• We have updated the look of the status field on the home page and made it more visible.
• Displaying 2 instead of 3 "community news" on home page when logged in.
• Redesigned "Download Opera" page.
• Redesigned the "Choose Opera" page.
• New look for the Opera affiliate banner.
• We have updated the look of the status field on the home page and made it more visible.
• A brand new "favorites" page is now available for all users. It can be turned on/off by going to "My page" > "Account" > "Page configuration".
• Trimmed the size of all buttons to make them smaller.
• Small "join My Opera" promo is shown on "about" page for logged out users when they visit My Opera directly from another site.
• Small notice to download Opera displayed on some pages for other browsers.
• Activity feed is updated to show "favorites" and "new profile picture".

My page, blog and photo albums:

• Your "files" section have been redesigned for better usability.
• New buttons for adding photo as favorite and sharing photos added when hovering photo album images.
• The e-card pages have been redesigned.
• Several pages like "start a new photo album" and "start a blog" have been redesigned to fit the look of the blog themes.
• Updated design of default blog theme menu.
• Added twitter to "share this".
• Moved MMS e-mail notice from the album overview to the album page.
• Moved tags from the album overview to the album page.
• Added date to photo albums.
• Added album description to album page.
• Fixed the design of the photo tags page.
• Added a new page for editing single images in photo albums.
• Redesigned the photo page for the default blog theme.
• Added "share this photo" to photo sidebar.
• Added "blog this" to photo pages.
• The "info" page is gone and links point directly to the "about" page.
• The top menu avatar now links to your own page instead of the community home page.

Friends:

• Status have been removed from the friends page.
• Added friends request info to top bar.
• Added "block" and "ignore" buttons to friends request page.