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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
• d2 fmt now supports a --check flag #2253

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

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