Breaking Changes

• chore: drop Node.js 16 by @stevenjoezhang in #5592
• chore: drop Node.js 18 by @stevenjoezhang in #5674

New Features

• feat: bind hexo context to helper function callback by @dimaslanjaka in #5555
• feat: add url config validation by @ShaytonXu in #5578
• feat: add permalink variable timestamp by @uiolee in #5611
• feat: Support additional options for Backtick Code Block by @D-Sketon in #5625
• feat(load_config): enforce stricter extension checks by @stevenjoezhang in #5591

Fixes

• fix:changed the judgement of whether it has been injected by @mRNA16 in #5573
• fix(escapeAllSwigTags): backtrack when tag is incomplete by @D-Sketon in #5618
• fix: hexo.locals.get('posts') doesn't show all posts by @D-Sketon in #5612
• fix: Parsing error for code blocks in list items by @D-Sketon in #5617
• fix(open_graph): sort the tags by @stevenjoezhang in #5656
• Escape HTML in title of code and include_code tags by @tommy351 in #5688

Performances

• perf(external_link): optimize external link filter by @D-Sketon in #5598
• perf(PostCategory/PostTag): add binary relation index for performance by @D-Sketon in #5605
• perf(listArchives): add cache for posts by @D-Sketon in #5624
• perf(escapeAllSwigTags): reducing GC overhead by @D-Sketon in #5620
• perf: skip tag render when there is no swigTags by @D-Sketon in #5650
• perf: faster text-table by @D-Sketon in #5665
• warehouse6
  • perf(model): add caching for data keys by @D-Sketon in #271

Refactor

• refactor(common): delete unused function ignoreTmpAndHiddenFile by @yoshinorin in #5600
• delete scripts pretest by @uiolee in #5610
• refactor(moment): remove unused timezone setting by @stevenjoezhang in #5654

Test

• test(box/file): extend the mocha timeout to prevent the async file read test from failing by @yoshinorin in #5601
• test: improve coverage by @D-Sketon in #5638

Depenrencies

• chore(deps-dev): bump @types/node to ^20.16.10 by @uiolee in #5558
• chore(deps): remove resolve by @stevenjoezhang in #5594
• chore(deps): update dependencies by @yoshinorin in #5597
• chore(deps): update cheerio from 0.22 to 1.0.0 by @yoshinorin in #5603
• chore(deps): migrate husky from 8.x to 9.x by @yoshinorin in #5602
• chore(deps): update eslint by @stevenjoezhang in #5599
• chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #5684
• chore(deps): bump strip-ansi from 6.0.1 to 7.1.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #5218
• chore: bump actions/setup-node from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #5687

Misc

• chore(lint): apply eslint to test files by @yoshinorin in #5655

New Contributors

• @mRNA16 made their first contribution in #5573
• @ShaytonXu made their first contribution in #5578

Full Changelog: v7.3.0...v8.0.0