highlightjs/highlight.js 10.4.0-beta1

Version 10.4.0-beta1 - BETA release

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Parser:

• enh(parser) use negative look-ahead for beginKeywords support (#2813) Josh Goebel
  

Deprecations:

• (chore) requireLanguage is deprecated.
  
  • Prefer getLanguage (with custom error handling) or built-time dependencies.
    
  • See Library API for more information.
    

Parser:

• fix(vue): Language name now appears in CSS class (#2807) Michael Rush
  
• (chore) Clean up all regexs to be UTF-8 compliant/ready (#2759) Josh Goebel
  

New Languages:

• Added 3rd party Chapel grammar to SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES (#2806) Brad Chamberlain
  
• enh(javascript) Added node-repl for Node.js REPL sessions (#2792) Marat Nagayev
  

Language Improvements:

• enh(autodetect) Over 30+ improvements to auto-detect (#2745) Josh Goebel
  
  • 4-5% improvement in auto-detect against large sample set
    
  • properties, angelscript, lsl, javascript, n1ql, ocaml, ruby
    
  • protobuf, hy, scheme, crystal, yaml, r, vbscript, groovy
    
  • python, java, php, lisp, matlab, clojure, csharp, css
    
• fix(r) fixed keywords not properly spaced (#2852) Josh Goebel
  
• fix(javascript) fix potential catastrophic backtracking (#2852) Josh Goebel
  
• fix(livescript) fix potential catastrophic backtracking (#2852) Josh Goebel
  
• bug(xml) XML grammar was far too imprecise/fuzzy Josh Goebel
  
• enh(xml) Improve precision to prevent false auto-detect positives Josh Goebel
  
• fix(js/ts) Prevent for/while/if/switch from falsly matching as functions (#2803) Josh Goebel
  
• enh(julia) Update keyword lists for Julia 1.x (#2781) Fredrik Ekre
  
• enh(python) Match numeric literals per the language reference Richard Gibson
  
• enh(ruby) Match numeric literals per language documentation Richard Gibson
  
• enh(javascript) Match numeric literals per ECMA-262 spec Richard Gibson
  
• enh(java) Match numeric literals per Java Language Specification Richard Gibson
  
• enh(swift) Match numeric literals per language reference Richard Gibson
  
• enh(php) highlight variables (#2785) Taufik Nurrohman
  
• fix(python) Handle comments on decorators (#2804) Jonathan Sharpe
  
• enh(diff) improve highlighting of diff for git patches [Florian Bezdeka][]
  
• fix(llvm) lots of small improvements and fixes (#2830) Josh Goebel
  
• enh(mathematica) Rework entire implementation Patrick Scheibe
  
  • Correct matching of the many variations of Mathematica's numbers
    
  • Matching of named-characters aka special symbols like \[Gamma]
    
  • Updated list of version 12.1 built-in symbols
    
  • Matching of patterns, slots, message-names and braces
    
• fix(swift) Handle keywords that start with # Marcus Ortiz
  
• enh(swift) Match some keyword Marcus Ortiz
  
• enh(swift) Match @main attribute Marcus Ortiz
  

Dev Improvements:

• chore(dev) add theme picker to the tools/developer tool (#2770) Josh Goebel
  
• fix(dev) the Vue.js plugin no longer throws an exception when hljs is not in the global namespace Kyle Brown
  

Parser:

• enh(grammars) allow classNameAliases for more complex grammars Josh Goebel
  

New themes:

• StackOverflow Dark by Jan Pilzer
  
• StackOverflow Light by Jan Pilzer