D2 Files

Features 🚀

• Vars: Variable definitions can refer to other variables in the current scope #2052
• Composition: Imported boards can use underscores to reference boards beyond its own scope (e.g. to a sibling board at the scope its imported to) #2075
• Autoformat: Reserved keywords are formatted to be lowercase #2098
• Misc: support for characters in the Latin-1 and geometric shapes unicode range #2100
• Imports: can now import from absolute file paths #2113
• Render: linear and radial gradients are now available for fill, stroke and font-color #2120

Improvements 🧹

• Sequence diagram: edge groups account for edge label heights #2038
• Sequence diagram: self-referential edges account for edge label heights #2040
• Sequence diagram: The spacing between self-referential edges and regular edges is uniform #2043
• Compiler: Error on multi-line labels in sql_table shapes #2057
• Sequence diagram: Image shape actors can use spans and notes #2056
• Globs: Filters work with default values (e.g. &opacity: 1 will capture everything without opacity explicitly set) #2090
• Render: connection label fills have a bit of padding and border-radius for better aesthetics #2094
• Sequence diagram: the padding between message labels and message endpoints are slightly increased #2096
• Render: code syntax highlighter dependency upgrade caused some slight subtle color changes in code snippets #2119

Bugfixes ⛑️

• Sequence diagram: multi-line edge labels no longer can collide with other elements #2049
• Sequence diagram: long self-referential edge labels no longer can collide neighboring actors (or its own) lifeline edges #2050
• Sequence diagram: fixes layout when sequence diagrams are in children boards (e.g. a layer) #1692
• Globs: An edge case was fixed where globs used in edges were creating nodes when it shouldn't have #2051
• Render: Multi-line class labels/headers are rendered correctly #2057
• CLI: Watch mode uses correct backlinks (_ usages) #2058
• Vars: Spread variables are inserted in place instead of appending to end of scope #2062
• Imports: fix local icon imports from files that are imported #2066
• CLI: fixes edge case of watch mode links to nested board that had more nested boards not working #2070
• CLI: fixes theme flag not being passed to GIF outputs #2071
• CLI: fixes scale flag not being passed to animated SVG outputs #2071
• CLI: pptx exports use theme flags correctly #2099
• Imports: importing files with url links is fixed #2105
• Composition: linking to invalid boards no longer produces an invalid link #2118