(ER: Having some trouble with news, and the team has deservedly gone to bed. So I'll put this here for now and we can move it to news tomorrow.)
If you have concerns or questions about features please post them in response to these release notes. We will review every comment, we will respond appropriately to the comment either with words, with action or with consideration.
Please be nice. We deliver v5.0 with love, and we hope to discuss how to improve it with you within a similar context.
Release Notes:
Upgrades include the header, footer and overall layout structure. Browse, Shop, News, Today, Forum, user pages, front page, search, Friends, deviation pages and all comment areas. Untouched features that we've converted slightly but may still appear in the v4 look include: deviantWATCH, Notes, Chat, shopping cart, error pages, settings, profile, print administration, submission process, update journal, update wishlists, deviantMOBILE, about us, contact, help, policies and various low-hit pages. Revamped or brand new features include: forums, news, today, moods, search forums, search journals (via today), search news, friends list, category navigation, deviation pages including embed tags, thumb tags for within dA and Browse. The Front Page* The front page is art only for now. Later we'll let you further customize.
* In the next day, two, couple, something.. days, a front page "customize" button will be added as planned. Bug delay. That's all.
Browse & Search* Functionality is now merged.
* Search results will soon look near exactly like browse results, including popular/newest sorting.
* You can narrow-down search within any gallery.
* +frontpage features will (soon) exist all throughout for easy adding to home page.
* +RSS
Deviation Pages* Navigate search streams on the deviation pages. (top right)
* Art that is a part of the deviantMOBILE program also now displays EMBED tags on the deviation page for use on blogs, etc.
* More about embed: produce a flash file that displays a mid-view thumbnail of a deviation with links.
* Deviation pages also include thumbnail short cuts for use within deviantART.
* Full-View and Mid-View toggle without reload.
* Addition of Favorites also require no reloads.
ShopShop hasn't actually been redesigned, it's just been made to look v5ish. Active development of the new prints program has been underway for some time now, and we anticipate a complete prints overhaul to launch well before the end of the year.
On the plus side however, navigation of prints and searching of prints is far, far sexier!
NewsdeviantART News is still beta, we intend to add a lot more functionality, but at its core it is a system that the community can submit to, and the community can dig through to find the news articles that are the most interesting for the day. Inspired by Digg.com.
* Just In shows you all the submissions ... just in..
* Popular shows you what's become popular throughout the day.
* +
the things you like!* Submit news about you or your group, your friends, your gallery openings, deviantMEETS, ANYTHING you want!
Today* Powered by MOODS (below) watch the communities range of emotion fluctuate throughout the day!
* A quick slice of deviation activity.
* The deviousness award and community statistics.
* Plus the ability to browse and search journal entries.
Forum* Jump-To (Category) menu
* Paginated posts, no more browser crashing!
* Gallery Forums merged in to jump-to menu!
note: We will be revisiting the forum with a magnifying glass in the coming week after launch, but due to the passion of hardcore forum users we wanted feedback first.
User Pages* Paginated comments and comment moods.
* Newness.
* RSS
The Site PollWe're waiting a few days on the devious poll, it will come back and will appear on the front page and news.
General Disclaimers
We will be proactively sensitive to your feedback on user pages. Glad to implement changes that make you mood:happy. 
Gallery Pages no longer exist but gallery forums are still accessible on the forums page. If there's anything major and obvious missing we intend to bring it back. I don't know what that might be, but if you notice something obvious don't freak out, just mention it in the comments below, we'll likely bring it back. We are aware of various bugs including some funny sorting options with the news and journal search and various others. Take them light-heartedly if you report them, we're be on'em! Anything dealing with the deviantWATCH is a part of v5.5 and not v5.0. Keep in mind that includes adding people to your watch, managing your friends list, and absolutely anything else that falls in to message center land. Suggest away! Whatever hasn't "made it over" from v4 to v5 is likely a very easy addition we probably anticipated making after launch. But other small features around the place aren't too tough either, make suggestions below! We will be actively working on a few more features and fixes over the coming weeks so this is great timing to perhaps get a feature you've wanted added.Enjoy deviantART v5
To create technology that meets your needs as deviants is our joy in life. This is the beginning of a new road, and we hope we've opened your eyes to a glimpse of what is ahead with v5.
Be devious,
mccann Pachunka chris starvingartist dionyziz micahgoulart dStruct 
Earlier today, Wix.com announced its acquisition of DeviantArt, and I want you to know how incredibly positive this development is for our community, for the platform, and for all artists who haven’t yet become deviants!
(Zoline's eyesight/spiritual eyesight ref [info about that is in the description of the picture]) (Arc 1 refs [more refs below])
PRIZES
Crayon chibi - 2000 
Please fix the gallery-scraps bug soon (:
Is there anything that can be done to fix this?
Anyway, you've always been the internet oasis of art and the gentle safehouse of delirious mad artists like me!
my message centre always shows 9 messages that don't exist... when I log in, maybe it says "16 messages" but when I click it, after the message centre is loaded, it says "7 messages"... and there are times when it only says "9 messages", I click it and then there are no messages...
another pretty bothering issue I'm having is that I have to remove manually every message that I get... the remove all does not seem to work for me
these are the problems I've seen so far
The new version is way better than the old one, I'm really happy with it ^^
Leo
Also, I don't like how my messages are all lumped together. On the last version you separated them out, and now you lumped them again. Why?
1. be able to add your deviations to a short (5 or so) list that can automatically rotate out as your featured deviation (very easy to do, just copy that random favorite code
2. Journals/News Items - grant the user in question the ability to draft news articles (like scraps) with a selector for "Published" and "Unpublished" allowing a storing of news / journal entries that just aren't quite ready for viewing. I normally draft in notepad or wordpad and save it, which becomes tedious... if the articles are stored on deviantART i can access them from anywhere and work on them at my leisure. Lit based deviants can use scraps in this manner so why not journals/news.
3. On news posts, make the 'rubbish/spam/not news etc' go away, we just need 1 reason to remove news and that's "Not News"... and make that just as prevalent as +Love perhaps -Love aligned left and bottom of the new summary.
4. dA collections - where perhaps it could be an offshoot of favorites... but in this example. Say i'm working on a 3d project about aztec designs/architecture... i can 'collect' various photographs and other deviations as a resource into my "aztec 3d" folder... sort of a categorized favorites but with more of a purpose than "just really liking a piece of art".
Best of what i had to offer at this time
I miss the descriptions ;-;.
and a lot have been fixed, thanks.
but i noticed today, that when you change the location of a scrap [to make it a deviation] it doesnt leave your scraps....i now have the same piece in both my scraps and my deviations. which is annoying.
not to mention that the scrap i just finished submitting, isnt there at all.
i sure hope you can get all the bugs fixed,
~Seemingly[megan]
But a few days ago, every deviation in my inbox spontaneously disappeared, and everytime someone I watch submits something, it doesn't know up in my inbox. My friends list is intact, but for some reason all I'm getting are journals and comments, and no art...I don't think I'm getting notes either.
I hope you're able to fix this dilemna soon. Thank-you.
nothing to do with v5 at all..
-- A
Thank-you....everything's back to normal now.
peace.
i like the white ish colours, but what about desktop screenshots and send to scraps are they coming back? they are both kinda important. also i think the avatars looked much better on the right.
an yea the fontsizes seem to large, this font im typing now is massive.
Is anyone else having trouble with recently uploaded deviations appearing in your gallery?
Last night a few that were successfully uploaded were missing from my gallery and today they are gone completely...
I like to know whether I need to make an effort to check me messages for comments, or if it's just a wad of journals I can just check the next morning.
I also am not too fond of how you have to go to the userpage or the front page just to get to the submit button. It makes it a little troublesome. I mean, I won't die from it - I can deal, but it really kinda disrupts the smooth experience.
Other than that, dude, well-done all you guys on v5! I'm loving the look and feel of it! I think it looks nicer than v4, personally.
What does that look like?
If a 1N or 5C appears while I'm browsing I'll go and reply to them, but if it's 5J... It can wait. This way I'm constantly uploading my message centre whenever I see a rise in message count only to find it is 7 new messages... But only 2 comments.
I know I can fix it by setting my browser, but it would be nice if I didn't need to bother with that every time I turn it on or switch to dA.
Having a looong thread meant you'll see at least first few tens of answers. It get repetitive after that anyway. This way, you'll see just first 25-50 posts (still adding to the conversation).
Who'll bother checking each page every time?
Or setting their comment viewing options to "Show 100" when they go into forums only to change it in a second or two to "Show 25" because they want to view deviations?
now it's just a big mess. XD;
it would be great if you put it like it was before. :3
Now, those pages have reappeared and you can see things like information from profiles, page views, number of submissions and worst of all, names.
I closed 3 accounts last week to for the sake of anonymity/privacy and I am very unhappy to see that it was in vain since the information is all back. Plus it says 'banned deviant' which is not a fun thing to be known as- especially since you have started a new account- you seem like you are intent on breaking all dA rules
I really hope this is only a glitch in the system..
In any case, I think you guys did a great job, there are a few glitches that are a tad annoying, and a few oversights (Such as the 'nearest deviant' feature only being visible on other people's pages) that are a bit silly, but I'm confadent that you'll get them fixed and have this place running perfectly as soon as you can ^_^
PS: I simply adore the moods system, I've yet to figure out it's finer points, but it's a wonderful addition to the site that makes things all the more fun.
I was wondering where the hell these were!
When I look at the news I don't want to have to shift through a bunch of crap. I want to be able to see QUALITY. MATURITY. ORDER. I want to see stuff that has passed through quality control and IS WORTH MY TIME!
I am a mother, I have a mortgage, I have a job, I have a life... I don't have time to browse and search through people's junk just to find the news articles that I want.
Thank you for the idea, but please change it back.
The friends button (the one with a human and a green button) does not appear in Internet Explorer, it appears in Opera but there is no friends there and it appears and work with Firefox.
It should be possible to use it with Opera and IE and not only Firefox
I like the new look a lot, but on the user pages, does there have to show the latest four of your deviations, instead of just the latest one? It makes the page seem overly cluttered and less professional. If you wanted to see more of a person's pics, you can just look at their gallery. I liked it a bit better when it only showed your latest deviation, but maybe that's just me. O.o I wish you could also see the titles of deviations. And when reading poetry or lit, it seems to cut off the lines, but maybe that’s just a bug or something.
And like some people mentioned, the full-view doesn’t always work for me, and when I click on the next page for comments, it just refreshes and brings me back to the same page. But my computer is broken, so that could be what the problem is…
Here's my original complaint:
I tried to post a new journal and after i finished and posted it, it didnt show up on my page. No journals did. After refreshing several times, yes even with F5, it still didnt show up. So, I went to "Edit Journal" and clicked on the newest entry, which was "#Music Featured Chat" and it gave me a blank page.
Anyone else with this problem?
After a while of waiting, it eventually showed up. But this is certainly a bug :\
The font is one of the things that I think needs a dire changing as it is too big and I know many people who will agree with that.
The only other thing is the white background when viewing a deviation. I dislike it. I find it too bright and distracts from the actual picture.