showdown/blog/showdown-1.8.7-released.md
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2018-10-17 01:13:24 +01:00

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««« title: Showdown 1.8.7 released, author: Estevão Soares dos Santos, author_avatar: img/avatars/tivie.jpg, date: 2018-10-16, language: en, image: img/blog/2018.10.06.jpg, summary: While everyone's waiting for the new Showdown 2.0, I released version 1.8.7 with some improvements and several bugfixes. »»»

Showdown's version 2.0 is coming together although not as fast as I wanted, maybe due to the extensive refactor done to the parser. But while the community is patiently waiting, I felt that some important bugfixes could (and should) be backported to v 1.x.

What's new in 1.8.7?

Some long awaited bugfixes were backported, namely:

  • emojis: fix emoji excessive size

  • gfm-codeblocks:

    • add support for spaces before language declaration

    • leading space no longer breaks gfm codeblocks

  • images: fix js error when using image references

  • literalMidWordAsterisks: now parses single characters enclosed by * correctly

  • mentions: allow for usernames with dot, underscore and dash

  • nbsp: fix replacing of nbsp with regular spaces

You can download/use the new version from github, npm and CDNJS.