diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9f6e4694..f0485ac5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 ncmpcpp-0.8 (????-??-??)
 * Configuration variable 'execute_on_player_state_change' was added.
 
+ncmpcpp-0.7.5 (2016-08-17)
+* Action chains can be now used for seeking.
+* Fixed fetching artist info from last.fm.
+* Default value of regular_expressions was changed from 'basic' to 'perl' to work around boost issue (#12222).
+* Fixed crash occuring when searching backward in an empty list.
+
 ncmpcpp 0.7.4 (2016-04-17)
 * Fetching lyrics from lyricwiki.org was fixed.
 * Configure script now continues without errors if ICU library was not found.
diff --git a/doc/config b/doc/config
index 3afbb760..db703c2a 100644
--- a/doc/config
+++ b/doc/config
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@
 #
 ## Available values: none, basic, extended, perl.
 ##
-#regular_expressions = basic
+#regular_expressions = perl
 #
 ##
 ## Note: If below is enabled, ncmpcpp will ignore leading
diff --git a/src/actions.cpp b/src/actions.cpp
index d63215c2..e14cbcad 100644
--- a/src/actions.cpp
+++ b/src/actions.cpp
@@ -2830,9 +2830,34 @@ void seek()
 	int old_timeout = wFooter->getTimeout();
 	wFooter->setTimeout(BaseScreen::defaultWindowTimeout);
 	
-	auto seekForward = &Actions::get(Actions::Type::SeekForward);
-	auto seekBackward = &Actions::get(Actions::Type::SeekBackward);
-	
+	// Accept single action of a given type or action chain for which all actions
+	// can be run and one of them is of the given type. This will still not work
+	// in some contrived cases, but allows for more flexibility than accepting
+	// single actions only.
+	auto hasRunnableAction = [](BindingsConfiguration::BindingIteratorPair &bindings, Actions::Type type) {
+		bool success = false;
+		for (auto binding = bindings.first; binding != bindings.second; ++binding)
+		{
+			auto &actions = binding->actions();
+			for (const auto &action : actions)
+			{
+				if (action->canBeRun())
+				{
+					if (action->type() == type)
+						success = true;
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					success = false;
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+			if (success)
+				break;
+		}
+		return success;
+	};
+
 	SeekingInProgress = true;
 	while (true)
 	{
@@ -2843,16 +2868,14 @@ void seek()
 		                 : Config.seek_time;
 		
 		NC::Key::Type input = readKey(*wFooter);
+
 		auto k = Bindings.get(input);
-		if (k.first == k.second || !k.first->isSingle()) // no single action?
-			break;
-		auto a = k.first->action();
-		if (a == seekForward)
+		if (hasRunnableAction(k, Actions::Type::SeekForward))
 		{
 			if (songpos < Status::State::totalTime())
 				songpos = std::min(songpos + howmuch, Status::State::totalTime());
 		}
-		else if (a == seekBackward)
+		else if (hasRunnableAction(k, Actions::Type::SeekBackward))
 		{
 			if (songpos > 0)
 			{
diff --git a/src/configuration.cpp b/src/configuration.cpp
index c8fa609e..5b42aa70 100644
--- a/src/configuration.cpp
+++ b/src/configuration.cpp
@@ -196,8 +196,8 @@ bool configure(int argc, char **argv)
 			{
 				auto format = Format::parse(vm["current-song"].as<std::string>(), Format::Flags::Tag);
 				std::cout << Format::stringify<char>(format, &s);
-				return false;
 			}
+			return false;
 		}
 
 		// custom startup screen
diff --git a/src/curl_handle.cpp b/src/curl_handle.cpp
index 7c64308f..cdd90344 100644
--- a/src/curl_handle.cpp
+++ b/src/curl_handle.cpp
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ CURLcode Curl::perform(std::string &data, const std::string &URL, const std::str
 	curl_easy_setopt(c, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &data);
 	curl_easy_setopt(c, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, timeout);
 	curl_easy_setopt(c, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1);
+	// Workaround last.fm SSL certificate problems.
+	curl_easy_setopt(c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
 	curl_easy_setopt(c, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "ncmpcpp " VERSION);
 	if (follow_redirect)
 		curl_easy_setopt(c, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
diff --git a/src/helpers.h b/src/helpers.h
index 19d66b53..c4e5123e 100644
--- a/src/helpers.h
+++ b/src/helpers.h
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ template <typename Iterator, typename PredicateT>
 Iterator wrappedSearch(Iterator begin, Iterator current, Iterator end,
                        const PredicateT &pred, bool wrap, bool skip_current)
 {
+	if (begin == end)
+	{
+		assert(current == end);
+		return begin;
+	}
 	if (skip_current)
 		++current;
 	auto it = std::find_if(current, end, pred);
diff --git a/src/settings.cpp b/src/settings.cpp
index bbc1e382..d1bbdc14 100644
--- a/src/settings.cpp
+++ b/src/settings.cpp
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ bool Configuration::read(const std::vector<std::string> &config_paths, bool igno
 		else
 			throw std::runtime_error("invalid argument: " + v);
 		regex_type |= boost::regex::icase;
-	}, defaults_to(regex_type, boost::regex::basic | boost::regex::icase)
+	}, defaults_to(regex_type, boost::regex::perl | boost::regex::icase)
 	));
 	p.add("ignore_leading_the", yes_no(
 		ignore_leading_the, false