New Features

• Faster initialization by starting page mutations earlier (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• filteReddit: Only display posts that have been processed through the filters. To get the old behavior back, disable the option hideUntilProcessed (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• Support media host VLive.tv (thanks @sporksparks)

Bug Fixes

• Prevent Reddit cloning RES elements when editing comments (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• commentPreview big editor: Improve open/close speed (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• commentTools autocomplete: Show also suggestions in the big editor (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• commentTools autocomplete: Improve suggestion speed, refactor (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• filteReddit: Allow for unicode regexes (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• filteReddit: Fix filter observer callback being invoked for every Thing, instead of only those necessary (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• hosts xkcd: Remove now unneeded workaround for alt-text encoding (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• init: Don’t batch loading of options (may fix FOUC issue for Firefox users) (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• neverEndingComment: Remove delay for loading more comments (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• neverEndingReddit: Complete callbacks on current page before loading next page (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• neverEndingReddit: Display pause icon in the widget (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• redesign: Add support for sorting tables (thanks @CAVillalobos)
• redesign: Fix accountSwitcher not displaying the current logged in account (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• redesign: Fix link to the dashboard (thanks @prakhar1912)
• redesign: Fix user tagger when not always closing when navigating between posts (thanks @prakhar1912)
• redesign: Make uncheckSendRepliesToInbox work (thanks @prakhar1912)
• redesign: Prevent duplication of user tags when navigating posts (thanks @prakhar1912)
• selectedEntry: Remove broken option selectLastThingOnLoad (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• selectedEntry: Try to select early if there’s no previous selection (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• settingsConsole autostage: Use frameDebounce to make it react quicker (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• settingsNavigation options embed: Allow slower load without opening in new tab (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• showImages conserveMemory: Tweak IntersectionObserver setup to fix erroneous unloading on Chromium (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• showImages: Remove badly-implemented text-based ‘catch-all’ icon (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• storage: Fix CAS not working on newer Chrome versions, and don’t ignore the default value (thanks @erikdesjardins)
• userTagger: Rerender tags only if necessary (reducing reflows) (thanks @larsjohnsen)

Housekeeping / Other

• Watchers use a just-in-time strategy for mutations (thanks @larsjohnsen)
  • Non-immediate watcher callbacks are executed when they are close to the viewport by using IntersectionObserver
  • Fewer requests to external providers are sent (e.g. expando host info is only fetched when necessary)
• New module init phase contentStart, invoked when the first Thing has been added to the DOM (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• Remove superfluous init stage bodyReady (thanks @larsjohnsen)

• Rename init phase loadDynamicOptions to onInit (thanks @larsjohnsen)

• Replace dependency momentjs with much lighter dayjs (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• Load fonts earlier to avoid additional reflow in case they are slow to load (thanks @larsjohnsen)

• CSS clean-up: Moves some rules from general stylesheet to the module stylesheets they are being used. (thanks @larsjohnsen)

• Optimize showImages by avoiding checking visibility on every scroll event (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• showImages expando: Optimize element generation (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• Thing: Add debug function getThingIsVisibleInconsistencies to check that method Thing#isVisible works correctly (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• Use interface CreateElement.fancyToggleButton to create fancy buttons (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• backAndRestore: Add searchable terminology: import/export (thanks @honestbleeps)
• betteReddit showVideoTimes: Refactor and add Host#getVideoData interface (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• selectedEntry is simplified; option scrollToSelectedThingOnLoad is removed (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• showImages: Remove unnecessary option bufferScreens (thanks @larsjohnsen)

• showImages: Unload media when collapsing where possible to reduce memory usage (thanks @larsjohnsen)

• storage wrapPrefix: Add option for auto batching get requests (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• utils throttle: Invoke when the microtask queue is empty rather than on setTimeout callback (thanks @larsjohnsen)

• utils waitForRemoval: Add option to disconnect observer (thanks @larsjohnsen)

• Limit api.twitter.com permission to the only endpoint we use (thanks @erikdesjardins)
• Reenable FF integration tests (thanks @erikdesjardins)
• Remove support for EdgeHTML (thanks @XenoBen)
• Update dependencies (thanks @larsjohnsen, @kevinji)
• ava: Move config from package.json to ava.config.js (thanks @kevinji)
• packageInfo gitDescription: Use git rev-parse HEAD as fallback for git describe (thanks @larsjohnsen)
• webpack: Remove now-unneeded object-rest-spread transform (thanks @erikdesjardins)

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