If you have a console less than 100 or so characters, the new 7.1 startup progress bar displays a newline for each increment...

1% [=>
1% [=>
1% [=>
1% [=>
3% [===>
3% [===>
3% [===>
5% [=====>
5% [=====>
5% [=====>
7% [=======>
7% [=======>

80 character consoles are very common (default on Ubuntu, Windows too IIRC) so we should fix this prior to release.