Merge pull request #1266 from Arantor/release-2.1

Removing send-topic
Merge pull request #1267 from Arantor/release-2.1

! Shorten what's in the alerts pane as well, should fix #1243. Feedback ...
Merge pull request #1268 from Arantor/release-2.1

! This tinyint actually needs to be an int. Because this is a new-to-2.1...
Merge pull request #1269 from Arantor/release-2.1

Alerts goodies