D2 Files

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
• level filter implemented #2473
• 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
• Misc:
• Diagram legends are implemented #2416

Improvements 🧹

• CLI:
  • Support validate command. #2415
  • Watch mode ignores backup files (e.g. files created by certain editors like Helix). #2131
  • Support for --omit-version flag. #2377
  • Casing is ignored for plugin names #2486
• Compiler:
  • links can be set to root path, e.g. /xyz. #2357
  • When importing a file, attempt resolving substitutions at the imported file scope first #2482
  • validate gradient color stops. #2492
• Parser:
  • impose max key length. It's almost certainly a mistake if an ID gets too long, e.g. missing quotes #2465
• Render:
  • horizontal padding added for connection labels #2461

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
• fixes panic when classes were mixed with layers incorrectly #2448
• fixes panic when gradient colors are used in sketch mode #2481
• fixes panic using glob ampersand filters with composite values #2489
• fixes leaf ampersand filter when used with imports #2494
• Formatter:
• fixes substitutions in quotes surrounded by text #2462
• CLI:
• fetch and render remote images of mimetype octet-stream correctly #2370
• Composition:
  • spread importing scenarios/steps was not inheriting correctly #2460
  • imported fields were not merging with current fields/edges #2464
• Markdown:
• fixes nested var substitutions not working #2456

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