diff --git a/mylar/search.py b/mylar/search.py
index c56b62b0..cd4bd735 100755
--- a/mylar/search.py
+++ b/mylar/search.py
@@ -896,7 +896,8 @@ def NZB_SEARCH(ComicName, IssueNumber, ComicYear, SeriesYear, Publisher, IssueDa
                                     comsize_b = entry['size']
                                 elif entry['site'] == 'DDL':
                                     comsize_b = helpers.human2bytes(entry['size'])
-                            except:
+                            except Exception as e:
+                                logger.warn('[ERROR] %s' % e)
                                 tmpsz = entry.enclosures[0]
                                 comsize_b = tmpsz['length']
 
@@ -1178,7 +1179,7 @@ def NZB_SEARCH(ComicName, IssueNumber, ComicYear, SeriesYear, Publisher, IssueDa
                 elif ComVersChk == 0:
                     logger.fdebug("Series version detected as V1 (only series in existance with that title). Bypassing Year/Volume check")
                     yearmatch = "true"
-                elif UseFuzzy == "0" or UseFuzzy == "2" or UseFuzzy is None or IssDateFix != "no":
+                elif any([UseFuzzy == "0", UseFuzzy == "2", UseFuzzy is None, IssDateFix != "no"]) and parsed_comic['issue_year'] is not None:
                     if parsed_comic['issue_year'][:-2] == '19' or parsed_comic['issue_year'][:-2] == '20':
                         logger.fdebug('year detected: %s' % parsed_comic['issue_year'])
                         result_comyear = parsed_comic['issue_year']
diff --git a/mylar/webserve.py b/mylar/webserve.py
index d7026950..032eee79 100644
--- a/mylar/webserve.py
+++ b/mylar/webserve.py
@@ -4545,13 +4545,20 @@ class WebInterface(object):
 #----
 # to be implemented in the future.
         if mylar.INSTALL_TYPE == 'git':
-            branch_history, err = mylar.versioncheck.runGit('log --pretty=format:"%h - %cr - %an - %s" -n 5')
-            #here we pass the branch_history to the pretty_git module to break it down
-            if branch_history:
-                br_hist = self.pretty_git(branch_history)
-                #br_hist = branch_history.replace("\n", "<br />\n")
-            else:
-                br_hist = err
+            try:
+                branch_history, err = mylar.versioncheck.runGit('log --encoding=UTF-8 --pretty=format:"%h - %cr - %an - %s" -n 5')
+                #here we pass the branch_history to the pretty_git module to break it down
+                if branch_history:
+                    br_hist = self.pretty_git(branch_history)
+                    try:
+                        br_hist = u"" + br_hist.decode('utf-8')
+                    except:
+                        br_hist = br_hist
+                else:
+                    br_hist = err
+            except Exception as e:
+                logger.fdebug('[ERROR] Unable to retrieve git revision history for some reason: %s' % e)
+                br_hist = 'This would be a nice place to see revision history...'
         else:
             br_hist = 'This would be a nice place to see revision history...'
 #----