I can confirm this for MC 1.8-pre1.
In addition the effect that apears when relogging is already triggered by simply opening the Game menu.
can you please add the code you used?
could you please add pictures? I agree that they appear brigther than normal
It does acctualy show up, it is just so small it is outside of your vision, When you look down very fast you see a corner of the plate appear.
Have you tried holding down F3 and pressing A?
Otherwise please add some screenshots
Cannot reproduce, can you please add some more Information?
You will need to add the display inside the 'tag' tag:
testfor @p {Inventory:[{id:<id>, tag:{display:{Name:<name>, Lore:[<lore>]}}}]}
Not a Bug
If Trapdoor gets moved out of a powered state it will remain in that state, even if it receives a Blockupdate.
Not a bug, pulling sticky Pistons does not pull the block the (pulled)Piston is facing
Possibly relates to: MC-67885 and [MC-64311]