Never happened before with 1.3. I was in the beta for 1.4 and everything was was going good actually...when this happened:

I started the Civil War questline. I completed the MQ before even starting the joining quest. (This happens on Stormcloaks and Imperial side). Joined the Stormcloaks/Imperials -> The Jagged Crown starts and ends with no problems -> Message to Whiterun here comes an unusual problem: When i get an axe from Ulfric I should give it to Jarl Balgruuf, but he does not have any dialog options to do it. Using the setstage command does not help. When I use setstage CW03 20 for example I see that it's updated, the Jarl is talking about the axe and what to do, and then starts the conversation with me with the words "About that axe..." and nothing. The same thing is for Ulfric -> setstage etc... the conversation begins, the quest updates but it never follow ups to "Battle for Whiterun". The curious thing is that when i tried to do it for the Imperials General Tullius should give me some documments, but he does not. He gives me Ulfric's War Axe, and this happens again.

I tried to delete all mods, skse and tried to start a save before the questline. Nothing helps. Also When I need to go to Balgruuf his animation is completely suspended (well beside lips) he does not move, unless I attack him or use disable/enable. Checked the integrity and done the defragmentation.

Anyone has a sollution or had this problem?

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Started a new game just to see if it's something with my save file. Done every prequisite quest to Message to Whiterun and it happened again. Maybe it's something with this in the patch notes :"Fixed issue progressing through “Message to Whiterun” while “Season Unending” was still open would block progression for both quests." And somehow it bugged the option when season unending is long time completed?

Seriously this is annoying.

Anyone can confirm if I am the only one with it after 1.4 or is it now a common bug? This one is a major storyline breaker after all.

No, Message for Whiterun is screwing up for me too. I was so excited, I was stuck on "season unending" and "the jagged crown" for months because of that ridiculous glitch, now one quest later I'm stuck again.

Any word on if this bug is gonna be fixed or not?