[TYPO3-english] span tag disappearing

[Lamb, Brian]

Greetings all, 
 
I recently upgraded to 4.2.8 and now my span tags disappear in the RTE. My TSconfig is: 
 
TCEMAIN.clearCacheCmd = all
RTE {
  colors { 
    tablehead { 
      name = Table Head
      value = #dddddd
    }
    tablerowodd { 
      name = Table Row Odd
      value = #f2f2f2
    }
    tableroweven { 
      name = Table Row Even
      value = #e5e5e5
    }
  }
  default {
    colors = tablehead, tablerowodd, tableroweven
    disableColorPicker = 1
    showButtons = *
    contentCSS = fileadmin/template/main/stylesheets/rte.css
    classesCharacter = code, event1, event2
    classesParagraph = header1, header1-line, header2, header3, code
    classesTD = leftColumn, highlight
    classesTable = tableHeader, tableRowEven, tableRowOdd
    ignoreMainStyleOverride = 1
    removeTags = acronym, address, applet, area, base, basefont, bdo, big, body, button, caption, center, cite, code, col, colgroup, del, dir, div, dfn, fieldset, font, form, frame, frameset, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, head, html, iframe, input, ins, isindex, kbd, label, legend, link, map, menu, meta, noframes, noscript, object, optgroup, option, param, q, s, samp, script, select, small, strike, style, textarea, title, u, var, xmp
    proc.allowedClasses (
      code, header1, header1-line, header2, header3, leftColumn, highlight, tableHeader, tableRowEven, tableRowOdd
    )
    proc {
      keepPDIVattribs = class
      entryHTMLparser_db = 1
      entryHTMLparser_db { 
        tags { 
          # allow only certain attributes 
          p.allowedAttribs = class
          a.allowedAttribs = class, href
          blockquote.allowedAttribs = class
          br.allowedAttribs = class
          ul.allowedAttribs = class
          li.allowedAttribs = class
          ol.allowedAttribs = class
          dl.allowedAttribs = class
          dt.allowedAttribs = class
          abbr.allowedAttribs = class
          pre.allowedAttribs = class
          table.allowedAttribs = class
          tr.allowedAttribs = class, rowspan, colspan
          td.allowedAttribs = class, rowspan, colspan, style
          th.allowedAttribs = class, rowspan, colspan
          tbody.allowedAttribs = class, rowspan, colspan
          img.allowedAttribs = class, src
          span.allowedAttribs = class
        }
      }
      exitHTMLparser_db = 1
      exitHTMLparser_db { 
        tags.b.remap = strong
        tags.i.remap = em
        keepNonMatchedTags = 1
      }
    }
  }
  
  classesAnchor {
    externalLink {
      altText =
      titleText =
    }
    externalLinkInNewWindow {
      altText =
      titleText =
    }
    internalLink {
      altText =
      titleText =
    }
    internalLinkImage { 
      altText = 
      titleText = 
      type = page
      class = internal-link-image
    }
    internalLinkInNewWindow {
      altText =
      titleText =
    }
    download {
      altText =
      titleText =
    }
    mail {
      altText =
      titleText =
    }
  }
}
 
As you can see, I have a few character classes defined and they correctly place the span tag in the RTE. But when I hit save, it disappears. 
 
Any thoughts?
 
Thanks, 
 
Brian Lamb