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[The Seamstress]

Ooh the flowers are nice Happy midsummer!

[Jubal]

Ooh the flowers are nice Happy midsummer!

Kjelda made this one last year IIRC, it's the newest of our themed banners

[The Seamstress]

Well done, Kjelda

[Jubal]

I've reverted the title as we're now a week past midsummer.

Also, the forum has been upgraded! We're now using SMF 2.1.6 instead of 2.1.4.

Changelog copied from the SMF forums is as below, I don't think there's anything that will significantly change people's user experience, this is the kind of upgrade we're mostly doing for the security updates:

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    PHP support:
        Raises the minimum supported PHP version from 7.0 to 7.1.
        Adds support for PHP 8.4.
    Security:
        Fixes some security issues. For this reason, upgrading is strongly recommended.
    User profiles:
        Fixes errors when profile fields using the "nohtml" mask are given values with Unicode characters or quotation marks.
        Adds a new, separate permission for using Gravatars.
    Attachments:
        Several fixes and improvements for the attachment upload UI.
        Sets Content-Disposition header correctly for attachments for mobile browsers.
        Improves handling of SVG image attachments
        Adds support for WEBP images.
    Editor and BBCode:
        The "Quote Selected Text" button is now more tolerant of "messy" selection ranges.
        Shows "Last Edit" info (if applicable) when editing a post.
        Improves smileys popup behavior.
        Improves image quality of previews for embedded attachments in the WYSIWYG editor.
        Fixes bugs in a few edge cases when parsing BBCode.
        Centers BBCode tables wrapped in the center BBCode.
        Fixes PHP syntax highlighting in BBCode under PHP 8.3+.
        Fixes issues with broken HTML entities in warning templates.
    Calendar:
        Shows multiple calendar events on the same day correctly.
    Search:
        Fixes undefined variable error in custom search API.
        Fixes a bug where the last character of a Unicode search term could be mangled.
        Returns correct search results when post moderation is enabled.
    Email:
        Notification emails always use display names, never usernames.
        Improved handling of SMTP errors when sending emails.
        Fixes a bug where undeliverable emails might never clear from the mail queue.
        Accepts wildcards in email-based ban triggers.
    Admin:
        Updates Unicode data files in a background task. (This ensures the forum will always have up-to-date support for the latest emojis and such.)
        Fixes bug where rearranging boards in the admin center could cause some boards to temporarily not be shown.
    Other:
        Fixes errors in RSS feeds for messages by members with commas in their usernames.
        Fixes the integrate_error_types integration hook.
        Fixes the integrate_attachments_browse integration hook.
        Fixes open_basedir warnings in PHP 8.
        Fixes some minor UI bugs.