Change record status: 
Project: 
Introduced in branch: 
7.x
Introduced in version: 
7.90
Description: 

There was a bug in D7 whereby it would load an entity when there was a trailing dot on the numerical entity id.

This was most relevant in the context of URLs - for example both of these would load the same node:

It's possible that fixing this bug will cause some URLs to break if they included a trailing dot (which is quite common in e-mails, for example).

Impacts: 
Site builders, administrators, editors