🌟 New

• Version 17.2 of Tumblr for Android has a redesigned camera mode! New tags view, blog selector, and publishing options. Swipe right on your dashboard to try it out.

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where your “Top Posts” in your blog’s activity page could include deleted posts.

🚧 Ongoing

• We’re aware of ongoing Ray Ban post spam and are working to resolve it. We encourage everyone to use strong, unique passwords.

🌟 New

• Soft launched this very blog! 

🛠 Fixes

• Read mores can once again be the first thing in your post. Soon!

🌟 New

• Nothing new to share today.

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed a couple of small formatting issues in the notes popover.
  
• Fixed an issue with text color when using Tumblr messenger on mobile web.
• Fixed an issue where you could only block a blog from your primary blog when viewing your secondary blog’s follower page.

🌟 New

• Nothing new this week, working on new things behind the scenes, and fixing bugs!

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Share to Tumblr widget would never load when given certain links.
• Fixed an issue which prevented asks from being answered with images and text in the Tumblr mobile apps.
• Blogs with really long titles should no longer overflow wildly across the page on desktop web.

🌟 New

• There are new advanced post options and tagging options when making posts as of version 17.0 of Tumblr for iOS.
• Folks can now use tumblr.new as a shortcut to make a new post on Tumblr.
  
• Blog avatars and the Tumblr logo are no longer used as fallback images in Open Graph tags for Tumblr post permalinks.
• We’re working to improve the experience of what posts show up on Tumblr-wide tagged pages.

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where tag search was not clearing after selecting a tag when posting as of version 17.1 of Tumblr for Android.
• Fixed an issue with Open Graph tags not rendering useful descriptions for reblogs in some cases.

🌟 New

• The Tumblr Official theme will now show links to related tagged pages on post permalink pages if the post has tags.

🛠 Fixes

• We’ve resolved the issue with the Enter button which made line breaks unavailable in messaging for the Tumblr Android mobile app. Look for the Enter button to reappear in version 17.3.
• Fixed some issues across Tumblr when handling UTF-8 encoded text.
• You can no longer block or report yourself when viewing the notes on your own post on Android.

🌟 New

• The top tags displayed on blogs now prefer the tags used recently rather than all tags ever used by the blog.
• We’re updating the copy we use across the platform in lots of places, on web and in the mobile apps, to improve consistency and clarity.

🛠 Fixes

• No fixes to report on today.

🌟New

• We’ve added three limited-edition spooky color palettes for the web dashboard.

🛠Fixes

• Fixed the bug where you could only block a blog from your primary blog when viewing your secondary blog’s follower page. We had to revert the fix for this that we mentioned in Tuesday’s post.

🌟 New

• We’ve launched a new redesign of the tagged and Explore pages on web.
• We’ve launched improvements to the GIF Search lookup backend used when adding a GIF to a post or sending a GIF as a message.
• When sharing a post, the image used in its Open Graph tags will now be the 1280px variant instead of 640px, when available.
• We’ve disabled the activity popover on pages that have not yet been updated to the new web experience.

🛠 Fixes

• “Since you’ve been gone” posts will no longer be included in your dashboard when “Best Stuff First” is disabled in your Dashboard Preferences.
• Clicking on a top post in your blog’s activity graph on web should now open that post again.

🌟 New

• Nothing new to share today.

🛠 Fixes

• You should now be able to full screen YouTube videos on web.
• The blog selector on web (such as in the Activity popover) is now a bit wider to help accommodate longer blog names.