IE8 (and I assume other browsers that use a doctype pre-html5) interpret the span outside of the link, as in HTML4.01 you needed the closing tag.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.4

The code was causing a NPE in IE8 and users could not sort the columns.

>> cell.innerHTML = '<a href="#" class="sortheader">'+this.getInnerText(cell)+'<span class="sortarrow" /></a>';

>> cell.innerHTML ;
"<A class=sortheader href="#"> S<SPAN class=sortarrow></A></SPAN>"

>> cell.innerHTML = '<a href="#" class="sortheader">'+this.getInnerText(cell)+'<span class="sortarrow"></span></a>'

>> cell.innerHTML ;
"<A class=sortheader href="#"> S<SPAN class=sortarrow></SPAN></A>"

[FIXED JENKINS-22681] Fix of JENKINS-19418 should have used getById, not load, to avoid reloading the last build gratuitously.

As per discussion under PR #1194, it should go into separate plugin.

[FIXED JENKINS-22631] Do not just warn about multiple builds with the same number; note this in the official problem list, and offer to fix it.

[FIXED JENKINS-21622] Release workspace leases (and avoid @2) even if post-build actions throw LinkageError.

[FIXED JENKINS-22607] Avoid loading recent builds when deletion of builds older than some date has been requested.

Integrated v2.38

(Forgot that Run’s are unmarshalled in place after a special constructor is called, so there is no need for readResolve or other tricks.)
Also calling RunListener.onDeleted outside of the Run lock to avoid problems with things like ChangeLogHistoryRunListener.