v0.8.0-alpha.2

Highlights

• New template and rendering internals (#5554):
  • Dioxus no longer uses comment-node placeholders and markers, either at runtime or during hydration. Elements that treat their children as text, such as textarea, now render correctly.
  • rsx! now expands to a const builder API, which you can also use directly.
  • HTML elements are trait-based, and you can define your own with dioxus::html::define_elements!.
  • Core now supports renderer IDs. These lay the groundwork for portals and multiple windows sharing one runtime.
• Dioxus Native is updated to Blitz 0.3.0-beta.3 (#5780, #5909). This release also fixes a leak where removed nodes were never freed (#5911). A falsy boolean attribute like disabled: false is now removed instead of being written as "false" (#5913). Attributes now default to the empty namespace (#5851).
• Linux desktop apps no longer link libxdo by default (#5749). This fixes prebuilt binaries failing to start on distros that ship a different libxdo soname.
• CLI:
  • The bundle application name now comes from application.name in Dioxus.toml (#5533).
  • The runtime no-downloads setting is now respected when bundling (#5748).
  • Fixed a wasm-opt SIGABRT when stripping binaries (#5736).
  • Fixed wasm hot-patching with wasm-bindgen 0.2.128 and newer (#5843).
  • The dev server proxy now sets X-Forwarded-Host (#5627).

Breaking changes

• HTML elements are no longer namespaced under dioxus_elements (#5554). Because element builders are now ordinary items, they can clash with other names in scope. For example, write html::main {} instead of main {} when your crate also has a main function.
• libxdo is now opt-in on Linux (#5749). If your app uses the predefined Copy, Cut, Paste or Select All menu items, enable the linux-libxdo feature on dioxus-desktop. That means adding dioxus-desktop to your dependencies directly, because the feature isn't exposed through dioxus.

What's Changed

• Lock cargo-msrv installation dependencies in CI by @danielkov in #5728
• Remove CODEOWNERS by @nicoburns in #5727
• Fix leak in manganis iOS FFI wrappers: hold Retained instead of a raw pointer by @nicoburns in #5733
• feat(cli): Set bundle application name from config by @adamgreg in #5533
• feat(desktop): make libxdo opt-in on Linux via linux-libxdo by @nabbisen in #5749
• fix(bundle): honor runtime no-downloads setting by @subotac in #5748
• Fix manganis-macro resolve_missing_file_path test on Windows by @jkelleyrtp in #5762
• Markerless placeholders/Portals/Multiwindow/const builder/optimized templates by @ealmloff in #5554
• Upgrade to Blitz 0.3.0-beta.2 by @nicoburns in #5780
• Skip stable fragment edge scans when no children need placement by @ealmloff in #5802
• Set X-Forwarded-Host in the proxy by @paholg in #5627
• fix(rsx): quote_spanned! -> quote!. Resolves clippy::useless_format lints. by @scottfones in #5636
• Fix windows-hotpatch-fullstack flake: route LaunchedRoot through Subsecond; remove SymbolData probe log spam by @nicoburns in #5790
• cli: mirror Cargo's implicit strip default when manually stripping binaries (fixes wasm-opt SIGABRT) by @nicoburns in #5736
• lychee: exclude freyaui.dev (403 from bot protection) by @nicoburns in #5844
• fix(liveview): don't double the ? and # when reading the browser location by @Dev-next-gen in #5836
• Use the empty namespace by default on HTML attributes by @hovinen in #5851
• Introduce a function to create a synthetic form event by @hovinen in #5750
• ci: fix Linux apt package install (stale apt lists + poisoned cache), fix cargo msrv find by @nicoburns in #5873
• fix(router-macro): omit ? and stray & when query arguments are empty by @nicoburns in #5845
• cli: fix wasm hot-patch fat builds with wasm-bindgen 0.2.128 / Rust beta (Playwright CI) by @nicoburns in #5843
• fix: Filter crates that are not in target by @nicoburns in #5903
• Eliminate quote/proc-macro2 deps from dioxus-config-macro crate by @nicoburns in #5868
• Sync Dioxus Native (Blitz 0.3.0-beta.3) by @nicoburns in #5909
• Drop nodes removed by Dioxus in dioxus-native-dom by @nicoburns in #5911
• Remove unused attributes.rs from core-types by @nicoburns in #5910
• Playwright: don't walk hot-patch temp target dirs during test collection by @nicoburns in #5914
• fix(native): remove falsy boolean attributes instead of writing "false" by @nicoburns in #5913 (originally #5846 by @ethanstoner)

New Contributors

• @adamgreg made their first contribution in #5533
• @nabbisen made their first contribution in #5749
• @subotac made their first contribution in #5748
• @paholg made their first contribution in #5627
• @scottfones made their first contribution in #5636
• @Dev-next-gen made their first contribution in #5836

Full Changelog: v0.8.0-alpha.1...v0.8.0-alpha.2