v2.1.0

Highlights

• Support for Unicode Emoji version 18.0

Breaking Changes

• Removed the deprecated Emoji#getUnicode() method. Use Emoji#getUnicodeText() instead.

Improvements

• New trie-based alias lookup (AliasTrie) for faster alias extraction/replacement
• Faster removal of emoji modifiers (Fitzpatrick / hair style)

Emoji Data

• Discord emoji retrieval now falls back to the cached definition file when fetching fails

Internal / Build

• Updated to Gradle 9.7.1 and Kotlin 2.4.10
• Added tests for extractAliasesInOrderWithIndex
• Dependency updates (Jackson, JavaPoet, JSpecify, HtmlUnit, JReleaser, GitHub Actions, …); Dependabot now runs monthly