Changelog since Opera 9.6 Beta 1

Release Notes

For an overview of changes since Opera 9.52, please refer to the main changelog for Opera 9.6.

Security and stability upgrades have been made. See the Security topic.

Speed Dial thumbnails no longer disappear when deleting private data
Page encoding in site preferences can now be reset to automatic
Changed the default global history to 1000
Added a new default speedial.ini
Improvements to Opera Link include the synchronization of search engines and typed history
Fixed sorting by progress in Transfers
Fixed copying of multiple entries from the history manager
Fixed a bug that could cause notes to be lost when using certain characters
Fixed dataloss situation when note folders had more than one line in their name
Fixed spurious highlighting when using the space character in inline find
Fixed an issue that would prevent links in frames from being opened by the keyboard
Fixed error pages when entering an unknown protocol
Fixed an issue where custom search engines would not get a favicon

Added popular Chinese providers in mailproviders.xml
Now copes better with broken POP servers that send empty UIDLs
The "Large font" setting is now respected for subjects
Cache files from feeds no longer show up in Transfers
Feed preview pages now load properly when reopened from trash
Text strings on the feed preview page can now be localized
Added a fallback feed title for feeds without titles and added a handheld style sheet to the feeds preview
Feeds are now detected even when served as text/html
Fixed the synchronization of removed labels for IMAP accounts
Fixed an issue where the 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
Fixed a problem where messages would be reported as incomplete when the server reports the wrong message size
Fixed importing of files with LF line endings only
Fixed an issue where followed contacts would not be properly unfollowed
Fixed an issue where only the first followed contact would be shown in the Followed Contacts access point
Fixed an issue where the Followed Thread icon would be lost after restart
Fixed Quick Find in feeds
Fixed an issue where feed titles were truncated before : characters
Fixed an issue where feed status could get stuck on fetching
Fixed an issue where only a few feed itmes would be fetched
Fixed DCC transfers in IRC

Special characters are now displayed properly in the Address bar drop-down
Opera Dragonfly element highlighting no longer stays on the page after closing the developer tools window
Script focused elements are no longer highlighted
Fixed saving of SVG when right clicking

Verisign and Comodo are now formally EV-enabled: see Yngve's blog post
Fixed an issue where specially crafted addresses could execute arbitrary code, as reported by Chris of Matasano Security; see our advisory
Java applets can no longer be used to read sensitive information, as reported by Nate McFeters; see our advisory