✅Release 1.8.6

Released to the Chrome Web Store on January 9, 2024

✨ Enhancements

• The Mod Launcher now displays title emojis in black of the brick icon when provided in the panel title (#7145)

• When closing the last panel of the Sidebar, the Sidebar now only closes if the last panel was a temporary form panel. Otherwise, the Mod Launcher is shown instead. (#7192)

• Mods listed in the Mod Launcher are now sorted alphabetically (#7225)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where some Brick Configuration warnings were not being displayed above the affected fields in the Page Editor (#7167)

• Fixed bug where the Variable Popover was not being defaulted to on for users (#7175)

• Fixed bug where the HTML Renderer was throwing errors if the Allow IFrames was not toggled on (#7157)

• Prevent typing @ in Mod Options from erroneously triggering the Variable Popover (#7143)

🧱 New/Updated Bricks

• Updated the @pixiebrix/convert brick to now support converting markdown to text (#7161)

• Implemented new [Experimental] Run Metadata brick. Developers can read metadata from the brick. (#7142)

• Implemented new [Experimental] Get Brick Interface and [Experimental] Run Brick By ID] bricks. Developers can get the brick interface (id, name, description, inputSchema, outputSchema) and can run a brick by the registry id (enables bricks to be made available as tools to ChatGPT and other LLMs). (#7125)

🎨 User Experience

• New Comments Tab added to the Data Panel. Developers can now add comments to any non-starter brick. Comments can be previewed in the Brick Configuration pane (#7102, #7103. #7210)