[ANN] kramdown 1.8.0 released

[Thomas Leitner]

## About kramdown

kramdown (sic, not Kramdown or KramDown, just kramdown) is a *free*
MIT-licensed [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org) library for parsing a
superset of Markdown. It is completely written in Ruby, supports
standard Markdown (with some minor modifications) and various
extensions that have been made popular by the PHP Markdown Extra
package and Maruku.

Homepage for installation instructions and documentation:
http://kramdown.gettalong.org


## kramdown 1.8.0 released

This release contains only some minor updates and bug fixes.


## Changes

* 4 minor changes:

- The LaTeX converter now uses `\texttt` instead of `\tt` for code
spans (fixes [#257], reported by richard101696)
- New option `footnote_backlink` for changing the backlink of
footnotes in the HTML converter (fixes [#247], requested by Benjamin
Esham)
- A quote directly followed by an ellipsis is now converted into an
opening quotation mark (fixes [#253], requested by Michael Franzl)
- Removed warning for self-closing HTML elements that are not
self-closed (fixes [#262], requested by Gregory Pakosz)

* 3 bug fixes:

- Fixed [#251]: The special character sequence `` \` `` now works
correctly when used in footnotes or headers that appear in the
table of contents (reported by Peter Kehl)
- Fixed [#254]: kramdown crashed on encountering a table with
multiple consecutive separator lines (reported by Christian Kruse)
- Fixed [#256]: Certain footnote definitions and codeblocks lead to
crashes or unneeded backtracking in the regular expression engine -
fixed by using atomic grouping (reported by Ali Ok)

[#251]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/251
[#257]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/257
[#247]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/247
[#254]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/254
[#256]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/256
[#253]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/253
[#262]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/262

Cheers,
Thomas