Opened 13 months ago
Closed 10 months ago
#22168 closed enhancement (fixed)
epiphany-49.2
| Reported by: | Xi Ruoyao | Owned by: | Douglas R. Reno |
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| Priority: | elevated | Milestone: | gnome-49 |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | git |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
New major version.
Change History (7)
comment:1 by , 13 months ago
comment:2 by , 12 months ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:3 by , 11 months ago
| Summary: | epiphany-49.0 → epiphany-49.1 |
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comment:4 by , 11 months ago
| Priority: | normal → elevated |
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Epiphany 49.0 and later help mitigate some of the effects of CVE-2025-4035 for users who use it.
comment:5 by , 11 months ago
49.1 - October 10, 2025
- Bugs fixed:
#2753Address bar dropdown appears when using "open link in new tab" (ARAKHNID)#2759Address bar dropdown remains open when window is unfocused (ARAKHNID)#2770Non-Latin characters not displaying properly in address bar (Michael Catanzaro)- !1977 Fix location entry not properly going into display mode (ARAKHNID)
- !1991 Fix memory transfer handling in decide_navigation_policy (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- Translation updates:
- Bulgarian (twlvnn kraftwerk)
- Catalan (Jordi Mas, Jordi Mas i Hernandez)
- Esperanto (Kristjan SCHMIDT)
- German (Christian Wansart)
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) (Emilio Sepúlveda)
- Korean (ChangSeok Oh)
- Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho)
- Turkish (Sabri Ünal)
49.0 - September 11, 2025
- Bugs fixed:
#2711Need profile migrator to add OpenSearch capability to existing predefined DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Google search engines (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2732The caret position after typing Ctrl+k (ARAKHNID)#2757REGRESSION: favicons have black square background instead of transparent background (ARAKHNID)- !1958 ci: update check-potfiles to handle Blueprint (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1968 shell: fix leak in ephy_shell_before_emit() (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1969 Fix missing thumbnails (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- Translation updates:
- Basque (Asier Saratsua Garmendia)
- Catalan (Jordi Mas)
- Chinese (China) (luming zh)
- Czech (Daniel Rusek)
- Danish (Alan Mortensen)
- Dutch (Nathan Follens)
- English (United Kingdom) (Bruce Cowan)
- Esperanto (Kristjan SCHMIDT)
- Finnish (Jiri Grönroos)
- Galician (Francisco Diéguez Souto, Fran Diéguez)
- Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
- Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
- Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
- Lithuanian (Aurimas Aurimas Černius)
- Persian (Danial Behzadi)
- Polish (Piotr Drąg)
- Romanian (Antonio Marin)
- Russian (Artur S0)
- Spanish (Daniel Mustieles)
- Swedish (Anders Jonsson)
- Turkish (Sabri Ünal)
- Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)
49.rc - August 27, 2025
- Bugs fixed:
#2725Suggestions dropdown opens outside window in new incognito window (Jan-Michael Brummer, ARAKHNID)#2730Permission request button looks stupid (ARAKHNID)#2747Clicking downloads links causes crash (ARAKHNID)#2752Address bar dropdown appears when using "search the web" (ARAKHNID)#2753Address bar dropdown appears when using "open link in new tab" (ARAKHNID)- !1936 shell: fix session state being discarded with new GLib (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1937 Change add bookmark item label if bookmark exists (ARAKHNID)
- !1938 Code cleanup (ARAKHNID)
- !1939 Explicit set position of suggestions popover (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1940 Fix typo (Dimitrios Christidis)
- !1942 Always focus location entry when opening new window (ARAKHNID)
- !1943 Fix warnings found by shellcheck (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1944 Format lineup-parameters with ruff (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1945 bookmarks-dialog: Add a tooltip to the close button (Lukáš Tyrychtr)
- !1947 Fix web app crash on startup (ARAKHNID)
- !1948 Add Keyboard Shortcuts shortcut to shortcuts dialog (ARAKHNID)
- !1949 Add missing mnemonics (ARAKHNID)
- !1950 Handle edge case when undoing bookmark removal from window (ARAKHNID)
- !1952 Unparent suggestion popover in dispose (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1953 Revert unneeded attempts to fix regressions (ARAKHNID)
- !1954 Fix cycling through address bar suggestions regression (ARAKHNID)
- !1955 Fix screenshots being created as HTML (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1956 Revert "location-entry: remove accessible description from the site menu" (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1957 Update POTFILES.in (Aleksandr Melman)
- !1959 Always focus name row when opening bookmark properties (ARAKHNID)
- Translation updates:
- Catalan (Jordi Mas)
- Chinese (China) (Luming Zh)
- Galician (Fran Diéguez)
- Persian (Danial Behzadi)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (Rafael Fontenelle)
- Russian (Artur S0)
- Slovenian (Martin)
49.beta - August 1, 2025
- Bugs fixed:
#2639[Bug] Text cursor position not saved when switching tabs (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2675Features preferences pane design ideas (ARAKHNID)#2681Missing download icon in narrow mode (ARAKHNID)#2688Quit menu item is visible for non-background web app (Michael Catanzaro)#2702Loading spinner displays in location entry even when tab bar is visible (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2712Crash when opening preferences dialog after deleting default search engine (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2718Exiting bookmarks sidebar makes forward/back buttons clickable (ARAKHNID)#2720Cannot reset location entry with Escape (Michael Catanzaro)#2724Web app run in background setting is broken outside Flatpak (ARAKHNID)#2731bookmark import creates duplicated entries (ARAKHNID)- !1862 Add site menu (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1898 Allow closing find toolbar with Esc without search focused (ARAKHNID)
- !1899 window-commands: don't take snapshot when saving PNG image (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1900 Switch options and navigation buttons in search (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1901 reader-handler: fix crash when destroying web view (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1902 Add Reset All button to WebKit features page (ARAKHNID)
- !1903 Always use g_signal_emit() over g_signal_emit_by_name() (ARAKHNID)
- !1904 Colorize icons and not buttons in location entry (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1905 tabs-catalog: remove remaining use of slice allocator (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1908 Small bookmarks dialog fixes (ARAKHNID)
- !1909 window: fix crash in url_should_open_automatically() (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1910 Fix CI (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1912 Remove unnecessary use of adw_toast_set_priority () (ARAKHNID)
- !1914 search-engine: fix -Wformat-security warning (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1915 bookmark-properties: fix on_tags_activated callback (q66)
- !1916 Simplify page menu button menu item removal (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1917 location-entry: use ephy-site-button-symbolic for secure websites (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1918 window: fix crash after window.open() (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1919 page-menu-button: remove missed temporary comments (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1920 Fix fullscreen menu item (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1922 Remove unused Blueprint imports (ARAKHNID)
- !1924 Turn passwords popover into alert dialog (ARAKHNID)
- !1925 data: Rename appdata to metainfo (AsciiWolf)
- !1927 window-commands: fix crash when taking screenshot (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1930 Move location entry mute button to site menu (ARAKHNID)
- !1931 Add shortcuts dialog (ARAKHNID)
- !1934 Revert "ci: disable Canary" (Philippe Normand)
- Translation updates:
- Friulian (Fabio Tomat)
- Hebrew (Yosef Or Boczko)
- Romanian (Antonio Marin)
- Slovenian (Martin)
- Uzbek (Bilolbek Normuminov)
49.alpha - June 26, 2025
- This release contains a major redesign of the address bar (the "location entry")
- The list of changes below includes changes since 48.0
- Bugs fixed:
#463Do not close any windows, and do not close the EphySession, before user has responded to all unsubmitted form warning dialogs (ARAKHNID)#506Option for separate search engine in Incognito (Jan-Michael Brummer)#815Deletion of bigger numbers of bookmarks is unintuitive (ARAKHNID)#1248No success/failure indication after clearing personal data (ARAKHNID)#1336Inconsistently possible to delete only configured language (Jan- Michael Brummer)#1343switch immediately to new tab option does not work when middle clicking (Jan-Michael Brummer)#1425Add kiosk mode (Jan-Michael Brummer)#1457Review use of run_downloads_in_background() in ephy-window.c (Jan- Michael Brummer)#1468Rejecting a modified form close confirmation warning has different results depending on how window is closed (ARAKHNID)#1479help: pref-cookies.page contains some outdated information (Michael Catanzaro)#1496Support adding opensearch XML search engine with autodiscovery (Jan- Michael Brummer)#1592Use the location portal (Jan-Michael Brummer)#1652Web app not able to easily be deleted due to URL length (Jan-Michael Brummer)#1673(Feature Request): Unmuting a non-tabbed page (Jan-Michael Brummer)#1949Passwords dialog has edit buttons for username and password, but they are always insensitive (Jan-Michael Brummer)#1964Provide a reading time estimate in reader mode (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2018Unicode characters in suggestions become percent-encoded in address bar (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2020Do not hide and remove search content when changing pages. (ARAKHNID)#2086quitting Web with an unsubmitted form makes other windows disappear for the current session (ARAKHNID)#2129Locale-specific adblock lists (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2174"Oops" status page looks doesn't look like an AdwStatusPage (Jan- Michael Brummer)#2190enhancement: focus webview on esc key in chrome? (ARAKHNID, Jan- Michael Brummer)#2242feature: bookmark a link from the context menu (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2328Modernize permissions popover (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2347Use the distinctive "in construction" development version window headerbar styling (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2348Remove Passwords from preferences dialog (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2365Implement style changes to password manager username list (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2422Opening with --new-window opens windows without a focus on url field (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2432[Enhancement] Clicking link in bookmarks sidebar should close sidebar (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2440Store small cropped no-transparency thumbnails (for "Most visited pages"), not full-page-height transparent thumbnails (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2453Manage Additional URLs dialog should operate on base domains (Jan- Michael Brummer)#2459Feature Request: Add button to uninstall web app from the hamburger menu of the web app window (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2492Reader mode's zoom level is not applied and saved independently from the regular original pages (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2493Feature Request: allow case-sensitive/whole word search when searching on page (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2497webapps: string "Run in background" should be specified to be a toggle rather than an action (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2499Allow launching web apps from Epiphany (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2505"default zoom" in settings changes by -1/+1 when using the buttons or arrow keys (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2517The downloads popover should close when a file is opened (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2520Crash when trying to select download location (Michael Catanzaro)#2532Crash in escape_csv_field() when exporting passwords (Michael Catanzaro)#2561Adding WhatsApp as a web app crashes (Michael Catanzaro)#2581Opening a new blank tab should not show spinner (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2590"Select all" string consistency with GNOME (ARAKHNID)#2596Pressing Escape key in addressbar resets the cursor to beginning of the widget (ARAKHNID)#2604"Installed on" label shown in about:applications reflects the usage / access time, not creation time (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2608Support the FreeDesktop background app API for sandboxed applications (using portals) (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2609Offer an explicit "Quit" menu action when "Run in background" is enabled for a webapp (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2610Port "Manage Additional URLs" to modern widgets (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2624Epiphay shouldn't show the privacy dialog in incognito mode (Michael Catanzaro)#2625address bar looks a bit off in narrow mode (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2640[UI/UX Enhancement] Add bookmark UI is very confusing (ARAKHNID)#2641(CVE-2025-3839) Require user interaction before opening URL in external application (Michael Catanzaro)#2643Cannot open multiple instances of a web app anymore ("New window" kills the running instance) (Michael Catanzaro)#2644Add Epiphany-level confirmation dialog before opening URL in external application (Jan-Michael Brummer)#265048.2 clicking a downloaded file crashes the browser (Michael Catanzaro)#2651Incognito Epiphany shouldn't automatically use saved HTTP Auth passwords from the regular Epiphany session(s) (Michael Catanzaro)#2652"Add Bookmark" menu option appears on startup in normal mode (Michael Catanzaro)#2655Can't exit bookmarks sidebar with Escape if search bar is focused (ARAKHNID)#2656Able to open multiple certificate dialogs (ARAKHNID)#2657Add Close All Tabs button to Tab Overview (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2661Crash on quit if the export dialog is dismissed before (Balló György)#2662Crash when pressing search suggestion (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2665User-entered text may be displayed when location entry is not focused (ARAKHNID)#2666URL bar gets activated when clicking "Website security status and permissions" (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2667Header bar is too tall in web app mode (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2670Use breakpoints in WebKit features preferences page (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2671Autocomplete in URL bar interferes with Ctrl+backspace (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2673Crash in update_tags_order_without_list_box() (ARAKHNID)#2676Text in address bar is cleared when you switch window (ARAKHNID)#2677No actionable visual indication of completion after using the "Take Screenshot…" feature (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2678Unexpected GtkBox under the WebView (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2682Overview thumbnails invalidated after restarting Epiphany (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2687Unable to horizontally scroll tab bar with touchpad (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2703Suggestions dropdown not dismissed after loading page (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2705regression: 2-finger back/forward touchpad gesture doesn't work (Jan- Michael Brummer)#2706Crash when reading time estimate fails (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2709Location entry autocompletion is only offered after every second character is entered (Jan-Michael Brummer)#2710Middle-clicking on Back history item does not respect "Switch Immediately to New Tabs" setting (ARAKHNID)- !1323 preferences: Add new WebKit features page (Adrian Perez de Castro)
- !1447 Add option to move url bar to bottom (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1615 Remove AdGuard YouTube content script (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1716 Code cleanup (ARAKHNID)
- !1717 location-entry: Prettify address when not focused V2 (Jamie Gravendeel)
- !1718 css: Update to GNOME 48 (Jamie Gravendeel)
- !1719 Fix typed input not showing on address bar unfocus (ARAKHNID)
- !1720 privacy-page: Move AdwButtonRow to AdwActionRow (Jamie Gravendeel)
- !1721 window: fix crash when force closing window without session (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1722 Several fixes for password export (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1725 permission-popover: Fix origin memory leak (Philippe Normand)
- !1726 Add support for Display device permission requests (Philippe Normand)
- !1727 location-entry: use attribute shape instead of size for hidden text (two)
- !1728 Disable privacy report in incognito mode (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1729 Remove Granite support from Tech Preview and Canary (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1730 find-toolbar: fix crash on load-changed (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1731 Require user interaction before websites can open external URLs (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1737 Hide reader mode button in focused location entry (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1739 Move add bookmark to page menu in narrow mode (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1741 Add inline completion to location entry (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1742 Automatically set visibility of action bar (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1745 Improvements to HTTP authentication (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1746 Add pan gesture to hide/show action bar (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1750 appstream: Fix app id (Sophie Herold)
- !1751 web-extension-manager: fix web process extension init regression (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1752 Fixes for ephy_window_disconnect_active_embed (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1754 Redesign bottom action bar (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1755 Don't consider og:image for web app icon (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1756 Exit bookmarks dialog with Esc with search focused (ARAKHNID)
- !1757 WebExtensions: Implement runtime.getManifest() (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1760 Fix certificate dialog being non-modal (ARAKHNID)
- !1761 Bookmarks editing mode (take two) (ARAKHNID)
- !1763 window: Put each main window into its own group (Balló György)
- !1769 Fix permission popover crash (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1779 Fix crash on escape press in bookmarks dialog (ARAKHNID)
- !1789 Re-add Display Access permission to security dialog (Dexter Reed)
- !1792 Add function to update tags order without listbox (ARAKHNID)
- !1793 readability: fix another typo in the reading speed estimate table (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1794 Rewrite manpage using rst2man (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1795 Exit with error if -p and --profile are used together (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1801 Add missing maintainer to man page (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1802 Move tags order variant logic to bookmarks manager (ARAKHNID)
- !1803 Add move controls menu to language rows (ARAKHNID)
- !1804 Fix warning on location entry dispose (ARAKHNID)
- !1807 Only show uninstall web app action in web app mode (ARAKHNID)
- !1810 Show url bar on bottom in narrow mode (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1812 Fix missing address text in security dialog (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1813 Move overview button to center in narrow mode (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1814 Fix logic error breaking the password manager (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1816 Fix crash in password popover (ARAKHNID)
- !1817 Make reset button insensitive if WebKit feature value is default (ARAKHNID)
- !1818 shell: Fix startup crash on Pantheon (Ryo Nakano)
- !1819 action-bar-end: Fix startup crash on Pantheon (Bobby Rong)
- !1822 Actually only show typed input when address bar is focused (ARAKHNID)
- !1824 Port PrefsFeaturesPage to Blueprint (ARAKHNID)
- !1829 ci: generate new image for style checker (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1832 Fix text getting centered when resetting address (ARAKHNID)
- !1835 Remove breaks in error page before buttons (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1836 Reset reader mode on state (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1842 Fix crash when opening Find bar (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1843 ephy-password-import: improve robustness (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1847 Add options menu to passwords dialog (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1848 Fix crash in sync_tab_navigation (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1851 Move page menu bookmarks functions to bookmarks dialog (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1852 Automatically open trusted schemes without interaction (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1853 Fix PKCS
#11login for invalid cert/priv pairs (Jan-Michael Brummer) - !1854 Add PKCS
#11session logout (Jan-Michael Brummer) - !1855 Fix incorrect blueprint name in POTFILES (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1856 Add PKCS
#11persistence option (Jan-Michael Brummer) - !1858 Fix revealing of bottom action bar (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1859 Remove wrong inline description in data view (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1860 Fix setting pkcs
#11persistence for certificate (Jan-Michael Brummer) - !1861 Improve search bar UI (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1864 Require meson 1.1 and rename meson_options.txt (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1865 Protect forms that are autofilled by the password manager (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1867 Fix gschema string typo (Anders Jonsson)
- !1869 Fix mute button not appearing in single tab narrow mode (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1870 Add data cleared toast to clear data view (ARAKHNID)
- !1872 Revert "Improve search bar UI" (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1874 Dispatch events when re-autofilling protected password form element (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1875 Fix leaks in SQLite and history tests (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1878 Delete old profile migrators (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1879 Check all tabs for modified forms (ARAKHNID)
- !1880 prefs-appearance-page: migrate from GtkFontButton to GtkFontDialogButton (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1881 Remove the shortcuts dialog (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1882 location-entry: fix crash when pressing Clear button (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1884 Restore small font in narrow mode location entry (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1885 Move combined stop reload button to location entry (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1886 Remove keyboard shortcuts menu item (Michael Catanzaro)
- !1887 Don't close windows until all forms are discarded (ARAKHNID)
- !1888 Fix alignment of full urls in location entry (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1889 Remove autocompletion handle on focus leave (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- !1891 Improve inline completion (Jan-Michael Brummer)
- Translation updates:
- Basque (Asier Saratsua Garmendia)
- Belarusian (Vasil Pupkin)
- Catalan (Jordi Mas)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (Cheng-Chia Tseng)
- English (United Kingdom) (Andi Chandler)
- Friulian (Fabio Tomat)
- Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
- Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani, Yosef Or Boczko)
- Hindi (Scrambled 777)
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) (Emilio Sepúlveda)
- Japanese (Takayuki KUSANO, Seiji Iizuka, Takayuki Maeda)
- Persian (Danial Behzadi)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (Nilton Perim Neto, Álvaro Burns)
- Romanian (Antonio Marin)
- Slovak (Peter Mráz)
- Slovenian (Martin)
- Spanish (Daniel Mustieles)
- Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)
comment:6 by , 10 months ago
| Summary: | epiphany-49.1 → epiphany-49.2 |
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49.2
49.2 - November 20, 2025
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* Bugs fixed:
- #2767 URL of open tab replaced with ephy-tab:// (ARAKHNID)
- #2787 Nothing is shown in the location bar on file:// URIs (Michael
Catanzaro)
- !1994 Consistently decode URLs before displaying in user interface (Michael
Catanzaro)
- !1997 location-entry: fix file URLs disappearing (Michael Catanzaro)
- !2000 Always show action bar while switching to narrow mode (Jan-Michael
Brummer)
comment:7 by , 10 months ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
Fixed at 01c89233e283bcb602b4a9ca219fdffeae698a40
Updated SA-12.4-034 to mention updating to this version of Epiphany now that it is in BLFS.
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