diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index cea217a..7573246 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Release Notes
 
+## 2.54
+
+Markdown-style links are now supported.
+
+The avatar and/or the header images can now be deleted (contributed by louis77).
+
+The webfinger content-type response header is now RFC-compliant (contributed by steve-bate).
+
 ## 2.53
 
 New user feature to search by post content (using regular expressions) or tag.
diff --git a/doc/snac.5 b/doc/snac.5
index c460c7b..42b257e 100644
--- a/doc/snac.5
+++ b/doc/snac.5
@@ -38,7 +38,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 ```
 .Ed
 .It links
-Standalone URLs.
+Standalone URLs are converted to links. Also, from version 2.54,
+markdown-style links in the form of [link label](url) are also
+supported.
+.It Line separators
+Horizonal rules can be inserted by typing three minus symbols
+alone in a line.
 .It quoted text
 Lines starting with >.
 .It User Mentions
diff --git a/doc/snac.8 b/doc/snac.8
index 7c35aeb..389cd0e 100644
--- a/doc/snac.8
+++ b/doc/snac.8
@@ -304,15 +304,25 @@ supports:
 Complete support, on input and output.
 .It Vt Undo
 For
-.Vt Follow
+.Vt Follow ,
+.Vt Like
+and
+.Vt Announce
 objects, on input and output.
 .It Vt Create
 For
 .Vt Note ,
-.Vt Question
+.Vt Question ,
+.Vt Page ,
+.Vt Article ,
+.Vt Event
 and
-.Vt Page
-objects, on input and output.
+.Vt Video
+objects on input, and for
+.Vt Note
+and
+.Vt Question
+on output.
 .It Vt Accept
 For
 .Vt Follow
@@ -327,11 +337,16 @@ For
 objects, on input and output.
 .It Vt Update
 For
-.Vt Person ,
-.Vt Note
+.Vt Note ,
+.Vt Question ,
+.Vt Page ,
+.Vt Article ,
+.Vt Event
 and
-.Vt Question
-objects, on input and output.
+.Vt Video
+objects on input, and for
+.Vt Note
+on output.
 .It Vt Delete
 Supported for
 .Vt Note
diff --git a/format.c b/format.c
index b021f55..1020ddd 100644
--- a/format.c
+++ b/format.c
@@ -87,7 +87,12 @@ static xs_str *format_line(const char *line, xs_list **attach)
 
     /* split by markup */
     xs *sm = xs_regex_split(line,
-        "(`[^`]+`|\\*\\*?[^\\*]+\\*?\\*|https?:/" "/[^[:space:]]+)");
+        "("
+            "`[^`]+`"                   "|"
+            "\\*\\*?[^\\*]+\\*?\\*"     "|"
+            "\\[[^]]+\\]\\([^\\)]+\\)"  "|"
+            "https?:/" "/[^[:space:]]+"
+        ")");
     int n = 0;
 
     p = sm;
@@ -135,6 +140,21 @@ static xs_str *format_line(const char *line, xs_list **attach)
                     s = xs_str_cat(s, s1);
                 }
             }
+            else
+            if (*v == '[') {
+                /* markdown-like links [label](url) */
+                xs *w    = xs_strip_chars_i(xs_dup(v), "[)");
+                xs *l    = xs_split_n(w, "](", 1);
+
+                if (xs_list_len(l) == 2) {
+                    xs *link = xs_fmt("<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>",
+                            xs_list_get(l, 1), xs_list_get(l, 0));
+
+                    s = xs_str_cat(s, link);
+                }
+                else
+                    s = xs_str_cat(s, v);
+            }
             else
                 s = xs_str_cat(s, v);
         }
diff --git a/html.c b/html.c
index 6267adf..bacee5b 100644
--- a/html.c
+++ b/html.c
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ xs_html *html_top_controls(snac *snac)
                     xs_html_sctag("input",
                         xs_html_attr("type", "checkbox"),
                         xs_html_attr("name", "avatar_delete")),
-        			xs_html_text(L("Delete current avatar"))),
+                        xs_html_text(L("Delete current avatar"))),
                 xs_html_tag("p",
                     xs_html_text(L("Header image (banner): ")),
                     xs_html_sctag("input",
@@ -1026,8 +1026,8 @@ xs_html *html_top_controls(snac *snac)
                     xs_html_sctag("input",
                         xs_html_attr("type", "checkbox"),
                         xs_html_attr("name", "header_delete")),
-        			xs_html_text(L("Delete current header image"))),
-		        xs_html_tag("p",
+                        xs_html_text(L("Delete current header image"))),
+                xs_html_tag("p",
                     xs_html_text(L("Bio:")),
                     xs_html_sctag("br", NULL),
                     xs_html_tag("textarea",
diff --git a/snac.h b/snac.h
index 5c2f731..a821b18 100644
--- a/snac.h
+++ b/snac.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* snac - A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance */
 /* copyright (c) 2022 - 2024 grunfink et al. / MIT license */
 
-#define VERSION "2.53"
+#define VERSION "2.54-dev"
 
 #define USER_AGENT "snac/" VERSION
 
diff --git a/xs.h b/xs.h
index 972665c..56771e1 100644
--- a/xs.h
+++ b/xs.h
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ int _xs_get_size(const xs_val *ptr)
 /* must match _XS_TYPE_SIZE */
 {
     int i;
-    memcpy(&i, ptr, sizeof(i));
+    memcpy(&i, ptr + 1, sizeof(i));
     return i;
 }
 
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ int xs_size(const xs_val *data)
     case XSTYPE_LIST:
     case XSTYPE_DICT:
     case XSTYPE_DATA:
-        len = _xs_get_size(data + 1);
+        len = _xs_get_size(data);
 
         break;
 
@@ -1286,7 +1286,7 @@ xs_data *xs_data_new(const void *data, int size)
 int xs_data_size(const xs_data *value)
 /* returns the size of the data stored inside value */
 {
-    return _xs_get_size(value + 1) - (1 + _XS_TYPE_SIZE);
+    return _xs_get_size(value) - (1 + _XS_TYPE_SIZE);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/xs_version.h b/xs_version.h
index 7a7ba53..2e86334 100644
--- a/xs_version.h
+++ b/xs_version.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/* 65769f25ed99b886a643522bef21628396cd118d 2024-05-25T08:18:51+02:00 */
+/* e148ab08d5a55ac7bd30ff900f5eb048a57e21af 2024-05-27T05:33:01+02:00 */