I just upgraded from 2.0.1 to 2.3.4 (yeah, I know – long overdue!). In 2.0.1 Mantra generated this markup in the footer:
<div id="site-info">
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</div>
In 2.3.4 the ‘id=”site-info”‘ has been replaced with some inline CSS (none of which fits my layout) – that seems like a step backward instead of forward in terms of separating markup from styling. Incidentally, there are leftover references to it, like styling for #site-info in the page head and a comment denoting the end of the div. Did the id attribute get accidentally removed?