I’ve just noticed this bug still exists in 0.9.6 (on WordPress 4.5.2 and PHP 5.3.29).
Descriptions appear to work fine in the lightbox for single images and in a gallery where every image has a description, but in a gallery where some images have a description and others are blank you can see the description text is not reset to be blank as it should.
To reproduce the issue:
1. Create a gallery with 4 images
2. Set image descriptions (1st ”, 2nd ‘foo’, 3rd ”, 4th ‘bar’)
3. Click through images in lightbox to see how description changes
On the first loop through the descriptions will be:
Image 1:
Image 2: foo
Image 3: foo
Image 4: bar
On the second loop through the descriptions will be:
Image 1: bar
Image 2: foo
Image 3: foo
Image 4: bar