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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.

Good news, everyone! This months release include the following list of changes and fixes:

• The A-Z listing of photo albums now display 28 items (instead of 10).
• Fixed a bug which caused a 400 error message when minimizing and maximizing groups in the Forum section.
• Updated text when you search for potential Opera fans. Displayed "photos", while now it's "people".
• Usernames with spaces are now displayed without encoding in the shoutbox (no more %20).
• We've fixed a problem which printed out (lots of) extra BR tags when writing a forum post, blog comment, etc.
• Fixed a bug with (BBCode) lists. It now correctly displays all points.
• You're now able to delete old comments again if you're the owner of the blog and/or group.
• Fixed a lot of bugs with the join group feature.
• The blogs section used to end up empty sometimes. This has now been fixed.
• There were problems receiving updates in the Link Web interface on My Opera. This has now been fixed and always displays recent changes.
• Bookmarklets (JavaScript bookmarks) are now supported in the Link Web interface.
• Lots of "under the hood" fixes (as always). Fixed some broken blogs, removed (old) groups and some security fixes.
• Avatars are now properly displayed on dev.opera.com.

Today's release includes several fixes on My Opera. Some changes are visible, while others are not.

• The status field no longer displays your username on the blog-, about-, and info page. We also added support for cancelling a status update (you can either click on the "x" mark, or just hit "Esc" on your keyboard and the status field will disappear).
• We know many of you have received spam in your inbox, so we've added a feature where you can mark selected messages as spam, click on "Mark selected as spam" and they will be removed from your inbox to the spam folder.
• Photo management for albums with many (200+) pictures has now been fixed.
• Fixed member count for groups. Banned users were also counted as members from the "About" page, but they weren't in the member listing. The about page also includes that now.
• Delete comments no longer redirects to top of the blog post, but to the "Comments" section.
• Fixed issue with editing and deletion of comments in your own blog.
• Fixed newsfeeds and notification e-mails for dev.opera.com.
• Fixed the comment text area on the Desktop Team blog. It was sized incorrectly, causing it to overflow the background around it.
• Fixed the issue with forum search only showed one page of results when searching for posts. It was not possible to search for older posts as there was only one page of results. It now shows all.
• If you went to an album you didn't have permission to see, you were shown an empty page (no error message, no "authorization required", no nothing). It now displays correctly that you are not the owner of the album.
• BBcode and HTML is now turned off for anonymous user comments.
• Fixed error when trying to send message to a user with blank in username.
• You can now remove friends who have you on their ignore list.
• Fixed photoblogging watches, at last!
• When logged in you no longer see the signup form, but you can still review the My Opera membership terms and conditions. Also added some text changes.

That's it boys and girls.

1. The shoutbox should work now in OperaMini.
   
2. We have changed the blog access permissions so the one you specify when creating the blog becomes the default, and then you can just change it for individual posts if you need to. You can change that setting at any time under "My account" / "Blog" (right panel, in "Account navigation") / "Blog settings"
   
3. Now you have the nick field in the FOAF data.
   
4. Other, minor enhancements and fixes, and the performance improvements Kjetil mentioned.