51.1 - 14 October 2026

Web:

* Fix several bugs related to grouping objects on the same visual line.

* Improve presentation of tables/grids where selection does not follow
  focus.

* Fix presentation of contenteditables newly-focused via native
  navigation.

* Prefer pending focus event when recovering from destruction of the
  current object.

* Fall back on text for childless ARIA combo boxes with no valuetext
  value.

* Fix presentation of headings with explicit names and empty children.

* Fix Where Am I sometimes triggering mode changes.

* Fix some substrings being skipped over during forward word navigation.

* Ignore caret-moved events from ignored, but exposed children of input
  elements.

General:

* Fix multiple bugs related to text-selection.

* Fix Say All starting from the incorrect location in terminals.

* Fix presentation of repeated symbols separated by zero-width no-break
  spaces.

* Clear stale braille selection indicators when the caret moves.

* Fix a couple of bugs related to profiles in the preferences UI.

* Add support for the GPaste3 D-Bus interface.

* Fix bug causing object navigator object click to fail.

* Fix several "chattiness" issues.

New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):

  de              German                    Christian Kirbach
  el              Greek                     Efstathios Iosifidis
  he              Hebrew                    Yaron Shahrabani
  kab             Kabyle                    Athmane Mokraoui
  nb              Norwegian Bokmål          Kjartan Maraas
  nn              Norwegian Nynorsk         Roy-Magne Mo
  pt_BR           Brazilian Portuguese      Rafael Fontenelle
  sl              Slovenian                 Martin

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