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We recently made changes to the way Reason embeds media in web pages. To sum them up:

1. You can now have multiple av_displayer classes. You can swap them out in code, or can set a default av_displayer in the Reason settings.
2. The new default av_displayer generally attempts to produce w3c-standards-compliant markup; this is a change from how Reason previously worked.
3. When the markup for a media file can be successfully placed in Reason content (given the markup produced and your settings for allowed tags), Reason will provide the embed code in the media file's preview page.

Tonight's nightly build includes plasmature types that allow for asynchronous uploads. The new types are now integrated into the default image and asset content managers. This provides a much improved upload interface for javascript / flash 9+ enabled browsers. For browsers that cannot support it, everything should work as it did before.

Tonight's nightly build will include an automatic check to see if there are updates to Reason. For you bleeding edge types, this check only checks against actual releases -- if…

The latest nightly builds of Disco introduce a new way of using Disco forms, using callbacks.

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I've added a set of string functions to carl_util/misc.php. We have not documented that the mbstring extension is required, but there was a bunch of code in Reason that assumed it was present.

While it has not been extensively tested, the Reason codebase is now free of short open tags, so you should be able to run Reason with short_open_tag off.

The interface for entering a page's slug/url string has been improved.

Here's what it looks like now:

The two most significant changes are:

1. The full path from…

Reason now has an interface to delete multiple items at once. It's not directly accessible in the administrative interface, but by changing the current module to BatchDelete you can call…

The link to cancel the creation of a new item now only shows when directly editing an item that has not been edited yet. Previously it showed in all modules…

Tonight's nightly build will contain a change to Reason's core API: the function delete_entity() has been deprecated in favor of reason_expunge_entity().

This change should improve the clarity of the Reason API…

There are two minor changes to the administrative interface:

1. The site statistics link shows up if the site has ever been live (that is, if you have integrated a stats package…

The version of Loki included in the Reason package has been updated to 2.0.2, which includes a number of important…