Pretty sure that this 328MB patch is setting up some ground work for 1.18.... think Yoshi-P said so in his newsletter.

I dare say some NPC's might say a few different things now if that help hehe

I'm happy enough that this is fixed:

•A bug wherein pressing Ctrl + T to scroll through the /tell history would skip the most recent recipient.
I thought i was losing the plot when that was happening to me.... guess its not me (in this instance)