The Christmas Edition

December 19, 2008 · by espens

Hi all,

This is my first release message for about four years I believe. Needless to say it is
the first on the blog. In the good (bad?) old days mail lists and usenet ruled but it
has to be a bit more fancy nowadays.

A new snapshot is available for you to try out. As usual it includes a lot of fixes and
improved features.

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.

PS: For those of you who want to use autoupdate in every single snapshot release just enable the "Download All Snapshots" setting (opera:config#AutoUpdate).

Update 2008-12-23: The builds haves not been added to the autoupdate server yet due to people going on vacation. Sorry for the false start, but we'll get back to you with automatic updates as soon as possible (depending on when people return from vacation).

Changelog

Several backend improvements to autoupdate
Made content filter rules with a whitespace at the end work
All languages are now included but not all are completed. Please do not file bugs on English text in the UI when using another language for your interface.
Made spellchecking work on contenteditable elements
Switching between html and plain text mail composition works better now
Added option to doubleclick a tab to close it opera:config#UserPrefs|DoubleclicktoCloseTab
Fixed crash when undeleting and running a widget
Improved stability in the search engine which indexes webpages and mail
Plus tons of behind the scenes changes, the low level changelog is more than 1000 lines.
Mac: Fixed startup crash on Mac OS X 10.3/Panther
Mac: Fixed the mail/chat counter background
Mac: Fixed low framerate on fullscreen YouTube videos

Happy holidays from everybody in the desktop team

Download
Windows
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Macintosh (Intel-only)
UNIX

Readers' comments

Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 50, as archived.

alexremen19. December 2008, 15:22:21
First! Merry Christmas!
NoteMe19. December 2008, 15:24:40
Second! Merry Christmas

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minch19. December 2008, 15:25:41
Third, Merry Christmas
karie19. December 2008, 15:27:32
Fourth! Merry Christmas!
julienp19. December 2008, 15:28:01
Fifth! Merry Christmas, everyone!
manooh19. December 2008, 15:28:15
Sixth! Happy Holidays
feldgendler19. December 2008, 15:29:24
Seventh, and happy New year!
blaabjerg19. December 2008, 15:32:14
Eighth, and a very merry unbirthday to you!
toman19. December 2008, 15:51:18
Ninth! Merry Christmas!
AVL19. December 2008, 15:55:52
Tenth, Merry Christmas!
haavard19. December 2008, 15:59:58
Eleventh! Merry Christmas!
borg19. December 2008, 16:08:35
12th! Merrrrrry Christmas!
Junyor19. December 2008, 16:45:21
13th! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
svennien19. December 2008, 16:47:15
Fourteenth! Happy holidays!
csant19. December 2008, 16:51:20
15th Merry Christmas!
Rijk19. December 2008, 18:39:53
Sixteenth! Merry Christmas!
mitchman220. December 2008, 00:50:36
17th! Merry Christmas!
olli22. December 2008, 14:05:47
18: God jul
Slemmen22. December 2008, 14:07:51
19th Merry Christmas!/God Jul
fearphage22. December 2008, 14:08:15
C-C-C-C-Combo breaker! (reference)

Merry Christmas and thanks for the new build! Enjoy the holiday!
Tamil22. December 2008, 14:09:07
mgillespie22. December 2008, 14:09:11
20th Merry Xmas!!

PS. Autoupdater did not tell me about this...
stranded22. December 2008, 14:10:27
The auto-updater didn't work for me either.
olli22. December 2008, 14:11:34
The builds will be added to the server for auto updating later today :-)
aanton22. December 2008, 14:11:35
Where is gcc4 qt4 .deb build?
xenoantares22. December 2008, 14:14:53
Been waiting for this one. ;) Merry christmas all together.
Think22. December 2008, 14:18:28
21st: God Jul! It's been a great year. Looking forward to 2009
Gemorroj22. December 2008, 14:21:18
happy new year!)
счастливого нового года!))
dapxin22. December 2008, 14:23:03
Haha!

Meeeeeeeery XMas to all OperaManiacs out there.

Grabbing mine now.
man on the street22. December 2008, 14:27:14
stopped counting - but a very merry xmas to everyone!

p.s.
thanks for the snapshot
saito22. December 2008, 14:27:57
Season's Greetings
mgillespie22. December 2008, 14:30:22
ACID3 Regression 99/100 for me now (was 100/100 before)

<acid3.acidtests.org>

Failed 1 tests.
Test 26 passed, but took 54ms (less than 30fps)
Test 69 passed, but took 29 attempts (less than perfect).
Test 72 failed: expected '10' but got '1' - prerequisite failed: style didn't affect image
stacktrace: n/a; see opera:config#UserPrefs|Exceptions Have Stacktrace
Total elapsed time: 1.34s
Galileo22. December 2008, 14:33:33
Shaffe22. December 2008, 14:34:19
Thanks for this Xmas release. Snif no intel_linux_deb_qt4
Bill_P22. December 2008, 14:38:32
in mail compose I can not paste using right click or middle button - only ctrl+v. Middle click in the compose window opens a new tab with the clipboard contents in the address bar.

also wasn't there a "switch to html" checkbox in the previous weekly's compose window?
Rolphus22. December 2008, 14:38:50
@mgillespie: Can't confirm that on WinXP SP3 32-bit. 100/100 for me.
TuPLaD22. December 2008, 14:40:28
Where is gcc4 qt4 .deb build?

I can't install this one, now my Opera is broken >x(
TriMN22. December 2008, 14:44:33
Merry Christmas!
EricJH22. December 2008, 14:45:11
Merry Christmas to y'all at Opera and thanks for the Christmas build.
lachralle22. December 2008, 14:48:33
Merry christmas and thank you for the (Mac) improvements, especially the mail/chat counter and the HTML composition switch (which now leaves extended chars untouched).
OPC22. December 2008, 14:54:17
22nd Merry Christmas! No gcc4.qt3 shared deb build?
Chas422. December 2008, 15:00:51
23rd Happy holidays!

The Desktop Teams send us early holiday presents
otzi22. December 2008, 15:03:57
waiting for autoupdate build

Veselé Vianoce a Šťastný nový rok
mroma22. December 2008, 15:04:28
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Щасливого Нового року! Веселого Різдва і смачної куті!
Luchio22. December 2008, 15:05:51
Joyeux Noël! Merry xmas!
fit413022. December 2008, 15:10:50
I'm so excited to try this release! Thank you. I have been waiting for this for some time now. Thanks!
Cyro22. December 2008, 15:11:23
Merry Christmas & a happy new year to all!
kamalesh22. December 2008, 15:15:38
Feliz Natal from the South, Merry Xmas, Happy New Year to all! (Thx for the Xmas present, Espen! )

Originally posted by olli:

The builds will be added to the server for auto updating later today :-)

Very torturous to make me wait to try out auto-update. How much longer??
szotsaki222. December 2008, 15:22:12
22nd!
Thank you!
DjiXas22. December 2008, 15:23:16
xx, merry Xmas