Yes, it escaped the <>. either use the button to make it a link or edit in source view to remove the <>and make it a normal html link manually.
[url='test link']test link name[/url] bbcode still works though. It's not that it wont accept the good old bbcode, it's that what you have to edit in source view is 'HTML' instead of bbcodes in the end.
all 3 methods should work.
first method wont work if simply copied into WYSIWYG view it seems, since it will be escaped.
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Split the offtopic discussion about the inner forum workings into a separate thread. thx to Sharkas