v8.1.0

amirivojdan/shekarv8.1.0Oct 26, 2025by yoshinorin

AI Summary

A performance-focused update that includes optimizations for caching, rendering overhead, and meta generation, along with bug fixes for TOC generation and asset handling. It also adds the ability to skip heading levels in the Table of Contents.

Key Highlights

Significant performance improvements in caching and rendering
Fixed TOC anchor generation and added support for skipping heading levels
Resolved issues with missing tags/categories in cache mode and incorrect HTML comment handling

New Features

Refactored Table of Contents (TOC) to support skipping heading levels

Full Release Notes

## Performances

* perf: fix potential cache miss issues with moize by @D-Sketon in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5694
* perf: reduce ObjectAssign overhead by @D-Sketon in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5698
* perf: faster archy by @D-Sketon in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5700
* perf: reduce the number of match calls in metaGenerator by @D-Sketon in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5707
* perf: faster `escapeAllSwigTags` by @D-Sketon in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5699

## Fixes

* fix/perf: Incorrect TOC anchor generation by @D-Sketon in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5696
* fix(regression): missing tags and categories when running `hexo s` with cache existed by @D-Sketon in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5697
* fix: fix ts error in test by @D-Sketon in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5709
* fix(regression): remove overly strict invalid tag format check in Swig parser by @D-Sketon in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5691
* fix(processor/post): updated post assets not being copied in hot processing when `post_asset_folder` is enabled by @yoshinorin in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5704
* fix: nunjucks/code blocks in HTML comments were incorrectly converted by @D-Sketon in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5616

## Refactor

* refactor(toc): support skipping heading level by @stevenjoezhang in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5653

## Dependencies

* chore: bump actions/setup-node from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5708
* chore(deps): bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5682
* chore(deps): bump actions/download-artifact from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5710
* chore(deps): bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5711
* chore(deps): bump hexo-util from 3 to 4 by @D-Sketon in https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/pull/5712

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/hexojs/hexo/compare/v8.0.0...v8.1.0