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highlight.js v8.4 Release Notes

  • We've got the new demo page! The obvious new feature is the new look, but apart from that it's got smarter: by presenting languages in groups it avoids ⚙ running 10000 highlighting attempts after first load which was slowing it down ✅ and giving bad overall impression. It is now also being generated from test ⚡️ code snippets so the authors of new languages don't have to update both tests and the demo page with the same thing.

    Other notable changes:

    • The template_comment class is gone in favor of the more general comment.
    • 📜 Number parsing unified and improved across languages.
    • C++, Java and C# now use unified grammar to highlight titles in function/method definitions.
    • 🏗 The browser build is now usable as an AMD module, there's no separate build target for that anymore.
    • OCaml has got a comprehensive overhaul by Mickaël Delahaye.
    • Clojure's data structures and literals are now highlighted outside of lists and we can now highlight Clojure's REPL sessions.

    🆕 New languages: