9.6 approaching

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The first release candidate for 9.6 is just around the corner now, but there are still a couple of issues left to resolve. Now is the time to let us know about any regressions so we can fix them before the RCs

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Changelog

• Fixed the Dragonfly crash
• Improved performance with large wand.dat files
• Don’t highlight script focused elements
• Stability fixes
• Feed preview pages now load properly when reopened from trash
• Fixed syncing of removed labels in Mail
• Fixed an issue where the mail signatures wouldn’t change if the default account signature ended with a space
• Fixed an issue where sent message bodies could disappear under certain circumstances
• Made Mail cope better with broken POP servers that send empty message UIDLs
• Made sure Mail respects the “Large font” setting for mail subjects
• Fixed an issue where feed titles were truncated before “:” characters
• Fixed a problem where mails would be reported as incomplete when the server reports the wrong message size
• Fixed importing of mail files with LF line endings only
• Disabled indexing of HTML and CSS in feeds
• Fixed an issue where feed status could get stuck on fetching
• Made sure filters created by IMAP keywords are saved on exit
• Made form buttons with zero padding prettier on Mac
• Fixed an issue where opening the Java Console would freeze Opera on Mac
• Fixed a bug that could cause notes to be lost when using certain characters
• Various Opera Link fixes
• Feeds are now detected even when served as text/html
• Fixed dataloss situation when note folders had more than one line in their name
• Fixed saving of svg when right clicking
• Fixed spurious highlighting when using the space character in inline find
• Upgrading Opera on Debian no longer resets default x-www-browser

For those of you on Intel Macs, we’re trying out a new download option to save you some bandwidth. Check out the Intel only download below :ninja:

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