**FINAL EDIT Thu Dec 10 02:15:47 UTC 2009**

So there is the final update... Over the past day we have processed around 11 million jobs out of the 12 million that were in queue at that time. Please bear in mind that over this past day, more jobs for notifications are also created. So while the queue has been dropping, we are still not fully caught up at this point, due to backlog and new jobs. We have roughly 3 million jobs still pending that involve the notification system in some manner. We had hoped we could have fully cleared the queue in a day, but unfortunately we can't clear it too quickly, since we need the rest of the site to operate normally. From our current perspective on the amount of jobs that are left in queue, and how many it has processed thus far, we believe it will take around another 8 - 12 hours to process everything.

And finally some answers to some questions:

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Tomorrow Never Knows
Title: Chapter Twenty
Authors: lovely_rita_mm,jenny_wren28, & pennylane_fic
Starring: The Beatles (specifically John Lennon) and Maggie Sue
Rating: R for language, sex, & implied drug use.
Disclaimer: We don’t own any of the Beatles, this obviously never happened, and much to the real Maggie’s disappointment, is a complete work of fiction.

Will George be true to his promise? Will he be a pest?

Previous updates located HERE.

Chapter Twenty

Release #59 has a bunch of bugfixes and improvements - here you go!

• Lost password emails can be sent to the current email address on an account *and* the previously validated email addresses for six months after a new address is set. After six months, only the currently in-use email address can receive password reset emails.
• Changes to payment system backend (not user-visible changes)
• You can now page back on the "People & Communities" tab when using the advanced text search (http://www.livejournal.com/search/)
• Fixed some issues in the Userpic Factory so that when and cropping larger pictures works correctly
• Removed "ban user" from hover menu for communities
• Removed the underline from the usericon in some minimalism styles
• Corrected the markup for Writers Block plain text notifications so that usernames are rendered correctly
• Using the "Next" or "Previous" functions now returns the correct entry even when the entries are dated out of order (LJSV-440)
• Converted communities now retain correct security settings
• Corrected the conversion rate for Yandex Money
• Notes now show correctly when viewing a username in the comments section
• If the user is a maintainer of more than one community, the 'ban everywhere' option will display when banning a user
• On geo-location, since some values were displaying "???" for Russian IPs, the Cyrillic values will be displayed in English (temporary workaround)
• Added date and time of post to Recent Entries view in "Cardboard" style
• Removed the * from Notes in header of profile page
• When a Note is updated or added, it now updates immediately on the page being viewed
• When answering the Writer's Block question using Opera, the cursor now appears in the entry field instead of in the question field
• Disabled the ability to modify/overwrite embed IDs after they have been created (LJSV-785)

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

Itty bitty patch release.

* Intel is sponsoring some Writer's Block questions, so their ads now display to the appropriate people

* Many updates for the Cyrillic game thingy coming next year
* Cyrillic ads: SUP office IP addresses are Russian now
* GeoLocation: Display Russian cities' names in Cyrillic

Tomorrow Never Knows
Title: Chapter Eighteen
Authors: lovely_rita_mm,jenny_wren28, & pennylane_fic
Starring: The Beatles (specifically John Lennon) and Maggie Sue
Rating: R for language, sex, & implied drug use.
Disclaimer: We don’t own any of the Beatles, this obviously never happened, and much to the real Maggie’s disappointment, is a complete work of fiction.

Here's Part III of the Fancy Dress Ball. Enjoy!

Previous updates located HERE.

Chapter Nineteen