We're happy to announce the release of Blacklight 8.0.0, fortuitously timed with Code4Lib 2023! This is the result of sprawling community contributions across Blacklight's issues, comments, accessibility reviews, code contributions, and project wrangling - thank you to everyone who has pitched in on our first major release in 4 years.
Major updates and enhancements include:
- Bootstrap 5 support
- jQuery-optional deployment
- better-defined APIs for developing reusable customizations and presentation changes
- modern Ruby, Rails, and JS/CSS bundling support
Ben Armintor (on behalf of the Blacklight committers)