I can confirm this behavior. After updating to latest org from master and
restarting Emacs, my documents now show the link destinations instead of
their descriptions (nothing changed in my configuration).

Best,
--Diego


On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 6:52 PM Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nicolas and all,
>
> Is it just me or does
>
>     [[https://duckduckgo.com][DDG]]
>
> show up now as
>
>     https://duckduckgo.com
>
> with `org-link-descriptive' set to t?
>
> I would instead expect
>
>     DDG
>
> to appear.  Wild guess: this is an issue in `org-activate-links'?
>
>
> Ciao
> --
> Marco
>
>