diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7c3fe3e0f0..16df57a734 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,7 +16,11 @@
 - [Fix][pull3888]: Close stale DB connections before first query (jaborsh)
 - [Fix][pull3898]: Pass caller to purge_processor in CmdStateCC cc command (saschabuehrle)
 - [Fix][pull3899]: Fix @teleport showing double error message on failed search (blongden)
+- [Fix][pull3900]: Fix TypeError in MSDP encode when args contain non-string values (blongden)
 - [Fix][pull3901]: Fix O(N²) cmdset merge by hashing commands on key instead of constant (blongden)
+- [Fix][pull3905]: Fix system commands duplicated in merged CmdSets (kvmet)
+- [Fix][pull3909]: Fix funcparser treating $" as malformed function call (aMiss-aWry)
+- [Fix][pull3910]: Fix MXP parse to not escape surrounding text as HTML entities (aMiss-aWry)
 - Docs: Griatch, BigJMoney
 
 [pull3866]: https://github.com/evennia/evennia/pull/3866
@@ -29,7 +33,11 @@
 [pull3888]: https://github.com/evennia/evennia/pull/3888
 [pull3898]: https://github.com/evennia/evennia/pull/3898
 [pull3899]: https://github.com/evennia/evennia/pull/3899
+[pull3900]: https://github.com/evennia/evennia/pull/3900
 [pull3901]: https://github.com/evennia/evennia/pull/3901
+[pull3905]: https://github.com/evennia/evennia/pull/3905
+[pull3909]: https://github.com/evennia/evennia/pull/3909
+[pull3910]: https://github.com/evennia/evennia/pull/3910
 
 ## Evennia 6.0.0
 
diff --git a/evennia/server/portal/mxp.py b/evennia/server/portal/mxp.py
index 2e16cf404b..24c283a3fb 100644
--- a/evennia/server/portal/mxp.py
+++ b/evennia/server/portal/mxp.py
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ def mxp_parse(text):
     sending to MXP-enabled clients.
 
     Converts ``|lc<cmd>|lt<label>|le`` to a clickable SEND tag and
-    ``|lu<url>|lt<label>|le`` to a clickable URL tag. Non-MXP content
-    has ``&``, ``<``, and ``>`` HTML-escaped to prevent them from being
-    interpreted as MXP tags by the client.
+    ``|lu<url>|lt<label>|le`` to a clickable URL tag. Non-MXP text
+    is left unchanged — MXP clients only interpret tags inside
+    secure-mode markers, so surrounding text is treated as literal.
 
     Messages containing no MXP markup are returned unchanged.
 
@@ -46,9 +46,8 @@ def mxp_parse(text):
         text (str): The text to parse.
 
     Returns:
-        str: The parsed text with MXP sequences substituted and non-MXP
-            angle brackets escaped, or the original text if no MXP markup
-            was found.
+        str: The parsed text with MXP sequences substituted, or the
+            original text if no MXP markup was found.
 
     Examples:
         ``|lchelp overview|lthelp overview|le`` becomes
@@ -58,22 +57,8 @@ def mxp_parse(text):
     if "|lc" not in text and "|lu" not in text:
         return text
 
-    def replace_with_escape(pattern, template, text):
-        result = ""
-        last = 0
-        found = False
-        for match in pattern.finditer(text):
-            found = True
-            result += text[last : match.start()]
-            result += template.replace("\\1", match.group(1)).replace("\\2", match.group(2))
-            last = match.end()
-        if not found:
-            return text
-        result += text[last:]
-        return result
-
-    text = replace_with_escape(LINKS_SUB, MXP_SEND, text)
-    text = replace_with_escape(URL_SUB, MXP_URL, text)
+    text = LINKS_SUB.sub(MXP_SEND, text)
+    text = URL_SUB.sub(MXP_URL, text)
     return text
 
 
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 2ee420f095..c20f02d5a3 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -698,6 +698,7 @@ extra = [
     { name = "gitpython" },
     { name = "ipython" },
     { name = "jupyter" },
+    { name = "psycopg", extra = ["binary"] },
     { name = "pyasn1" },
     { name = "pyopenssl" },
     { name = "scipy" },
@@ -729,6 +730,7 @@ requires-dist = [
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     { name = "model-mommy", specifier = ">=2.0" },
     { name = "parameterized", specifier = "==0.9.0" },
+    { name = "psycopg", extras = ["binary"], marker = "extra == 'extra'", specifier = ">=3.1.12" },
     { name = "pyasn1", marker = "extra == 'extra'", specifier = ">=0.4.8" },
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