#### Features 🚀

- Animations: `style.animated: true` is supported on shapes [#2250](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/2250)
- Connections now support `link` [#1955](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/1955)
- Vars: vars in markdown blocks are substituted [#2218](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/2218)
- Markdown: Github-flavored tables work in `md` blocks [#2221](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/2221)
- `d2 fmt` now supports a `--check` flag [#2253](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/2253)

#### Improvements 🧹

- Composition: links pointing to own board are purged [#2203](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/2203)
- Syntax: reserved keywords must be unquoted [#2231](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/2231)
- Latex: Backslashes in Latex blocks do not escape [#2232](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/2232)
  - This is a breaking change. Previously Latex blocks required escaping the backslash. So
    for older D2 versions, you should remove the excess backslashes.
- Links: non-http url scheme links are supported (e.g. `x.link: vscode://file/`) [#2237](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/2237)
- Compiler: reserved keywords with missing values error instead of silently doing nothing [#2251](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/2251)

#### Bugfixes ⛑️

- Imports: fixes using substitutions in `icon` values [#2207](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/2207)
- Markdown: fixes ampersands in URLs in markdown [#2219](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/2219)
- Globs: fixes edge case where globs with imported boards would create empty boards [#2247](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/2247)
- Sequence diagrams: fixes alignment of notes when self messages are above it [#2264](https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/2264)