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Whew, this is a long one, so it's split between two of us. Everyone ready?

Bug 4821: Middle click doesn't open a new page when tracking items (chrome)
Category: Misc UI/Frontend
Patch by: fu
Description: Pretty simple really: when you attempted middle-clicked certain links in Chrome, it didn't work. Now it does!

Bug 4818: crosspost links not displaying on S2 entrypage beta
Category: S2 Backend
Patch by: fu
Description: Another simple one: the links for crossposted entries weren't displaying on beta entrypages in the S2 style - now they do!

Bug 4819: Non-square images distorted in contextual hover menu (beta)
Category: Misc UI/Frontend
Patch by: fu
Description: A simple fix to remove distortion of non-square images in the menu that appears when you hover over users, etc.

Bug 3994: make deleted-account profile pages context-sensitive by viewer
Category: Circle/Relationships
Patch by: swaldman
Description: The wording of a deleted account page has now changed, so that Dreamwidth knows whether or not you are the owner of a deleted journal (based on your login) rather than just saying "if you're $username..." - we love our clever little website :)

Bug 4828: Update FAQ 131 and 16 a bit
Category: User documentation
Patch by: misskat
Description: misskat made us some shiny new FAQs. Go misskat!

Bug 4719: Shop: number of points disappear when you have none
Category: Misc UI/Frontend
Patch by: fu
Description: The shop now tells you that you have 0 points when that's the case, instead of "You have points" (which wasn't true, and quite confusing!)

Bug 4824: Abstractia: minor display issue on Icons page
Category: Style System
Patch by: ninetyd
Description: Fixing a small display issue with icon info going into the wrong place on the journal style icon page for Abstractia.

Bug 4825: Database: add shadow around icons on icons page
Category: Style System
Patch by: ninetyd
Description: Icons get shadows!

Bug 4823: Summertime: minor fix on Icons page
Category: Style System
Patch by: ninetyd
Description: Minor fix to adjust text alignment on icons pages.

Bug 4829: RSS: ?auth=digest validation for feeds from us is failing in external reader
Category: Feeds
Patch by: fu
Description: Basically we accidentally broke RSS validation in a code push, but then we fixed it, so now it works again. Hooray!

Bug 4826: New update page resets security level before posting when spell check is used
Category: Misc UI/Frontend
Patch by: fu
Description: There was a small bug where clicking spell check would reset the security level of a post, but this has now been fixed.

Bug 4832: Status code for 4xx, 5xx doesn't match status *line*
Category: Misc Backend
Patch by: fu
Description: There was an error with the text displayed on error pages (where the wrong error code would be displayed) which is now fixed.

Bug 4657: comment edited notification does not appear under Entries & Comments filter
Category: Inbox/Notifications
Patch by: ninetyd
Description: A bug where edited and deleted comments didn't appear under the "Entries and Comments" filter of the inbox has been fixed.

Bug 4777: Abstractia: header_background not actually implemented
Category: Style System
Patch by: ninetyd
Description: Implementation of CSS function header_background into Abstractia

Bug 4783: don't send account expiring notice to purged accounts
Category: Payments
Patch by: alierak
Description: We were sending account expiration notices to purged accounts, which seemed a bit pointless since they'd been purged by the user, so now we don't!

Bug 4831: Support: double colon in automatically appended diagnostics section
Category: Site Administration
Patch by: alierak
Description: Removed the double colon from posts into dw_suggestions.

Bug 4836: Librarian's Dream: header_background_image doesn't work
Category: Style System
Patch by: ninetyd
Description: Fixed CSS function header_background_image in theme Librarian's Dream

Bug 4838: Librarian's Dream: links aren't in the correct order/use different selectors
Category: Style System
Patch by: ninetyd
Description: Fixed order of link code in CSS of Librarian's Dream.

Bug 4785: Background images not showing in Librarian's Dream
Category: S2 Backend
Patch by: ninetyd
Description: Fixed CSS for Librarian's Dream so that it would show user-added images to the background.

Bug 4835: Librarian's Dream: wrong URLS for backgrounds
Category: Style System
Patch by: ninetyd
Description: Changed URLs of images which are common to all themes.

Bug 4841: # of screened comments incorrect on reading page
Category: Journal contents
Patch by: fu
Description: Fixed an error that made the number of screened comments display incorrectly.

Bug 4834: Summertime: resource credit missing from Tennis Court
Category: Style System
Patch by: ninetyd
Description: The Summertime style didn't credit a resource in the Tennis Court theme; it now does.

Bug 4844: Some warnings not being logged
Category: Importer
Patch by: fu
Description: Some warnings generated by the importer weren't being logged - they now are.

Bug 4587: styling for "track this entry" popup doesn't scale at larger font sizes
Category: Misc UI/Frontend
Patch by: n/a
Description: This is a small CSS fix to change the size of buttons around entry comments.

Bug 4279: Should "How do I change the appearance of my journal" mention site skin?
Category: User documentation
Patch by: misskat
Description: A rewording of an FAQ to help users not familiar with site terminology to understand how to change how the site looks.

Bug 3628: Information on embedding media
Category: User documentation
Patch by: misskat
Description: We have a new FAQ relating to embedding media: http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=246

Bug 4461: New FAQ: ?poster=
Category: User documentation
Patch by: misskat
Description: We have a new FAQ relating to how to find posts by a specific user in a community: http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=247

Bug 4541: document photo hosting
Category: User documentation
Patch by: misskat
Description: We have a new FAQ relating to Dreamwidth's basic photo hosting service: http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=248

Bug 4700: FAQ#225 on posting photo needs to be updated
Category: User documentation
Patch by: misskat
Description: Updated FAQ on adding photos to an entry: http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=225

Bug 4846: FAQ #23: periods at the end of example URLs are potentially confusing
Category: User documentation
Patch by: misskat
Description: Reworded our FAQ on tags so that URLs no longer have periods/full stops at the end of them: http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=23

Bug 4850: Create a FAQ for clearing cache/cookies
Category: User documentation
Patch by: misskat
Description: We have a new FAQ relating to clearing cache/cookies: http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=249

Bug 2677: Document Reading Filters
Category: User documentation
Patch by: misskat
Description: We've updated our FAQ on reading filters.

Bug 4784: Auto-filling forms using $formdata doesn't work for checkboxes
Category: Misc UI/Frontend
Patch by: fu
Description: This one got described by exor74 as: "backend black magic having to do with something that is supposed to make the developer's life easier" which made me laugh, so I'm using that description.

Bug 4414: Random journal/community failing more often than working
Category: Misc UI/Frontend
Patch by: fu
Description: Fixing an issue where going to a random journal didn't always work. You may still end up not getting a random journal, but you now at least don't get dumped on the front page of the site.

Bug 4707: Make sure parseInt uses base 10
Category: Misc UI/Frontend
Patch by: fu
Description: a bit of backend magic to change the kind of code used by the website, protecting against an issue coming up in future.

Bug 4699: (beta entry page) delete even if text is empty
Category: Misc UI/Frontend
Patch by: fu
Description: you can now delete an entry having removed the text from the text box if you wish.

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