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Hi to all "devblog" friends,

after some time spent on backend optimization, stress testing, and lately on a new file storage architecture (seen the new avatar paths?) and on MyOpera internationalization support, yes, that's a lot of stuff, I'm back to regular bug fixing.

There are lots of open bugs, some of them have been there for a loooong time. We know, but we had some structural problems and various urgencies that called for immediate action. Anyway... I started friday on this "intensive" bug fixing, and seems I already managed to fix a few long standing, annoying bugs:

• #1719: When saving events(countdowns) in a group you get redirected back to your personal page.
• #1650: Use less compression on JPEG user pictures. Now JPEG images are saved with quality setting to 95, which should be pretty good, and also, no more ugly black borders. Now images are scaled and automatically cropped. :-)
• #1970: Sometimes a blog RSS feed was displayed differenly whether the URL ended with '/' or not.
• #1783: User privacy settings are not saved properly. This means that in your personal account page, if you chose to show your login status only to 'Friends', it didn't save the preference correctly. Now it does.
• Other random tickets, mostly not relevant for users.

All of this is now fixed in the development version of MyOpera. Will go out with the regularly scheduled release cycle. Thanks for listening and stay tuned.