d2/ci/release/changelogs/next.md

Features 🚀

• Icons: connections can include icons #12
• Syntax: suspend/unsuspend to define models and instantiate them #2394
• Globs: support for filtering edges based on properties of endpoint nodes (e.g., &src.style.fill: blue) #2395
• Render:
  • markdown, latex, and code can be used as object labels #2204
  • shape: c4-person to render a person shape like what the C4 model prescribes #2397
• Icons: border-radius should work on icon #2409
• Diagram legends are implemented #2416

Improvements 🧹

• d2cli:
  • Support validate command. #2415
  • Watch mode ignores backup files (e.g. files created by certain editors like Helix). #2131
• d2compiler:
  • links can be set to root path, e.g. /xyz. #2357

Bugfixes ⛑️

• Compiler:
  • fixes panic when sql_shape shape value had mixed casing #2349
  • fixes panic when importing from a file with spread substitutions in vars #2427
  • fixes support for center in d2-config #2360
  • fixes panic when comment lines appear in arrays #2378
  • fixes inconsistencies when objects were double quoted #2390
  • fixes globs not applying to spread substitutions #2426
• CLI: fetch and render remote images of mimetype octet-stream correctly #2370
• d2js: handle unicode characters #2393

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For the latest d2.js changes, see separate changelog.