v2.8.0

[chriskyfung]

What's Changed

• Bump decode-uri-component from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2 by @dependabot in Bump decode-uri-component from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2 #41
• Remove VigLink Affiliate Program by @chriskyfung in Remove VigLink Affiliate Program #45
• v2.8.0 by @chriskyfung in v2.8.0 #51

This release contains various improvements and fixes for the project. The changes are grouped into the following categories:

⬆️ Dependencies

• Update cheerio to fix ReDoS vulnerability
• Update postcss for AMP Optimizer
• Update glob-parent to fix ReDoS vulnerability
• Bump semver from 5.7.1 to 5.7.2
• Bump caniuse-lite from 1.0.30001431 to 1.0.30001576
• Bump decode-uri-component from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2

🎨 Style

• Rebuild minified CSS and SCSS files for the theme
• Hide Disqus ads and GitHub sponsor button with CSS
• Format Liquid snippets in the post.html file

🐛 Fixes

• Resolve AMP optimizer warning in the continuous integration workflow
• Resolve a conflict caused by the Jekyll Archives plugin in the build process
• Fix the AMP CSS issue and the Iframe issue in AMP
• Fix the potential XSS vulnerability in jQuery

✨ Features

• Add AMP Optimizer logs to the gulp task
• Hide the gh-pages branch from the Git Graph in VS Code

🗑️ Removed/Deprecated

• Remove VigLink affiliate program from the theme
• Remove amp-link-rewriter extension from the theme
• Remove the CodeQL Action from the GitHub Workflows as it is deprecated
• Schedule the deprecation of some gulp modules that are no longer needed

♻️ Refactor

• Simplify author logic in the post.html file

🔧 Chore

• Update the Front Matter CMS database and the recommended VS Code extensions
• Update the Actions to run on Node 16 instead of Node 12

📝 Documentations

• Fix typos and broken links in the README file
• Fix broken links in Config Guide and Media pages

⏺ Related Issues

• #27
• #45
• #46
• #48
• #49
• #50
• #52

Full Changelog: v2.7.1...v2.8.0

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This discussion was created from the release v2.8.0.