release_2_3_1.page

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title: kramdown 2.3.1 released
no_output: true
sort_info: r2031
created_at: 2021-03-18 00:28:00 +01:00
modified_at: 2021-03-18 00:28:00 +01:00
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## kramdown 2.3.1 released

This release brings various bug fixes, one of which fixes a security issue that can potentially lead
to remote code execution.

## Changes

* 2 minor change:

  - Added `rel="footnote"` to footnote links (fixes [#706] by xplosionmind)
  - Default options are now cached to avoid unnecessary computations (fixes [#685] by Aswhin Maroli)

* 6 bug fixes:

  - Fixed abbreviations handling so that they won't be replaced in raw HTML tags (fixes [#671] by
    Kaspar Etter)
  - Restricted Rouge formatters to Rouge::Formatters namespace (pull request [#708] by Stan Hu)
  - Fixed conversion of empty raw html td/th tags to kramdown (fixes issue [#682] by Virgil
    Ierubino)
  - Fixed LaTeX entity conversion (pull request [#681] by aschmitz)
  - Fixed missing block attributes from IAL on standalone images (pull request [#668] by Tobin
    Yehle)
  - Fixed inconsistency in how empty code spans are handle (fixes [#704] by cabo)

* 4 other change:

  - Test on Ruby 2.7 and Ruby 3.0 (pull request [#696] by timcraft)
  - Fix rouge test failures due to new syntax (fixes issue [#689] by Daniel Leidert)
  - Clarified requirements for rouge option 'formatter' (fixes issue [#617] by Aswhin Maroli)
  - Removed warning in `setup.rb` (pull request [#673] by Daniel Bair)

[#689]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/689
[#671]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/671
[#617]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/617
[#706]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/706
[#704]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/704
[#685]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/685

[#696]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/696
[#708]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/708
[#682]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/682
[#681]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/681
[#673]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/673
[#668]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/668