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v2.0.5

Breaking Changes
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⚠ 4 breaking✨ 6 features🐛 10 fixes🔧 6 symbols

Summary

The release adds new hx-drag and historyRestoreAsHxRequest features, expands documentation and examples, removes legacy IE support, and includes numerous bug fixes and documentation improvements.

⚠️ Breaking Changes

  • Removed legacy Internet Explorer support – pages will no longer work in IE; upgrade to a modern browser or provide a polyfill.
  • Title text is now written using innerText instead of innerHTML – if your code relied on HTML markup in the title, update it to set the desired markup after the title is set or use a custom script.
  • Internal usage of the deprecated String.substr method was removed – replace any custom code that calls substr with slice or substring.
  • Submit buttons with formmethod=dialog now perform a no‑op instead of submitting – adjust forms that relied on the previous behavior.

Migration Steps

  1. Test your site in a modern browser after IE support removal; add polyfills if IE compatibility is required.
  2. If you set document.title with HTML markup, change the code to set title.textContent (or innerText) and apply any needed markup separately.
  3. Search your codebase for .substr calls and replace them with .slice or .substring.
  4. Review forms that use formmethod=dialog; ensure they no longer expect a submit action.

✨ New Features

  • Added hx-drag extension proposal for dragstart and drop triggered htmx requests.
  • Introduced historyRestoreAsHxRequest configuration to optionally suppress the hx-request header on history‑restore requests.
  • Added a 404 page example and several new server examples (http4k, FreePascal with Pas2JS).
  • Added "less htmx" link and dynamic‑url entry to the community extensions list.
  • Extended documentation with new attribute pages, essay descriptions, and header/api descriptions.
  • Created SECURITY.md file for security guidelines.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed escaped quotes in page titles.
  • Corrected h2 color styling.
  • Repaired broken documentation links on the quirks page and other docs.
  • Fixed typo in QUIRKS.md and other documentation files.
  • Resolved error in quirks documentation for htmx config.
  • Fixed JSDoc of getRespCodeTarget.
  • Fixed broken link in SSE extension docs.
  • Fixed event availability in hx-vals/hx-vars when hx-trigger includes a delay.
  • Handled removal of request lock on errors.
  • Proxy window.location for testing and extension overrides.

🔧 Affected Symbols

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