d2/ci/release/changelogs/v0.6.9.md

Features 🚀

• Animations: style.animated: true is supported on shapes #2250
• Connections now support link #1955
• Vars: vars in markdown blocks are substituted #2218
• Markdown: Github-flavored tables work in md blocks #2221
• Render: adds box arrowheads #2227
• d2 fmt now supports a --check flag #2253
• CLI: PNG output to stdout is supported using --stdout-format png - #2291
• Globs: &connected and &leaf filters are implemented #2299
• CLI: add --no-xml-tag for direct HTML embedding #2302
• CLI: play cmd added for opening d2 input in online playground #2242

Improvements 🧹

• Composition: links pointing to own board are purged #2203
• Syntax: reserved keywords must be unquoted #2231
• Latex: Backslashes in Latex blocks do not escape #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
• Compiler: reserved keywords with missing values error instead of silently doing nothing #2251
• Render: SVG outputs conform to stricter HTML standards, e.g. no duplicate ids #2273
• Themes: theme names are consistently cased #2322
• Nears: constant nears avoid collision with edge routes #2327

Bugfixes ⛑️

• Imports: fixes using substitutions in icon values #2207
• Markdown: fixes ampersands in URLs in markdown #2219
• Globs: fixes edge case where globs with imported boards would create empty boards #2247
• Sequence diagrams: fixes alignment of notes when self messages are above it #2264
• Null: fixes nulling a connection with absolute syntax #2318
• Gradients: works with connection fills #2326
• Latex: fixes backslashes doubling on successive parses #2328