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 - Icon URLs that needed escaping (e.g. with ampersands) are handled correctly by CLI. [#666](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/666)
 - Fixes markdown shapes being slightly too short for their text in some cases. [#665](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/665)
 - Fixes self-connections inside layouts when using ELK. [#676](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/676)
+- Fixes panic when the only diagram object has `near` set to a constant. [#687](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/687)