🎉🦎 Eight versions in, still changing colors: welcome Chameleon 8.0.0!​

Version 8 is a release we've been building towards for a long time, and we're genuinely proud of what it brings. The headline feature is dynamic theming for chameleon-react, and it's a big one. Until now, every product had to maintain separate builds per brand. Dynamic theming eliminates that entirely: a single deployment can switch themes at runtime, without a rebuild or reload. Fewer builds, simpler pipelines, and a much more scalable foundation for every team consuming Chameleon.

This release also ships a full migration of our NPM packages to the GitLab Package Registry with a clean rename to the @chameleon scope, bringing everything under one roof.

As always with a major release, this means breaking changes. Please check out our migration guide before upgrading.

🚀 New Feature​

chameleon-react​

• 💥 BREAKING: Dynamic Theming — chameleon-react now supports runtime theming. Until now, every brand required its own separate build. With dynamic theming, a single deployment can switch themes on the fly. Be sure to check out our migration guide for details. !2485

🏠 Internal​

• 💥 BREAKING: NPM Registry Migration — All packages have moved from the Azure DevOps registry to the GitLab Package Registry. Along with this, the npm scope has changed from @mediahuis to @chameleon and the chameleon- prefix has been dropped from package names. Be sure to check out our migration guide for the full list of renamed packages and updated .npmrc configuration. !2547

🐛 Bug Fix​

• chameleon-theme-co, -frd, -ge, -hd, -ld, -lt, -lw, -nhd & -yc: Updated Merriweather fonts to fix dropcap rendering in Chrome. !2643

🏠 Internal​

• Updates to dependencies:
  • libphonenumber-js: 1.13.3 -> 1.13.6
• Moved Kotlin snapshot tests from the repository to Percy. !2628

🎨 Themes​

• MCO, SCO: Fixed STRING_TOO_LARGE asset issue. !2630

🏠 Internal​

• Added test to catch Kotlin STRING_TOO_LARGE asset path length violation in asset-sync. !2630

🎨 Themes​

• MHNO brands (ECO, FPO, HCO, NOS, SCO, STW): Updated quotes icon. !2627

🚀 New Feature​

• Added new icons for all brands: earbuds, emote-frowning, emote-frowning-active, emote-neutral, emote-neutral-active, emote-smiling, emote-smiling-active, gift, luggage, music, shopping-basket, and wine. !2618

🐛 Bug Fix​

• Reduced font byte-size by limiting some large font files to the latin charset. !2617

🎨 Themes​

• chameleon-theme-av: Set header.background.default to a static semantic token. !2623
• chameleon-theme-mhno: Aligned sponsored content highlight tokens with contextual. !2625

🏠 Internal​

• Updates to dependencies:
  • @testing-library/react: 16.3.0 -> 16.3.2
  • @percy/cli: 1.31.13 -> 1.31.14
  • storybook/*: 10.1.4 -> 10.4.0
  • libphonenumber-js: 1.12.42 -> 1.13.3
  • focus-trap: 7.6.5 -> 7.8.0
• Added a CONTRIBUTING.md guide and updated the GitLab merge request templates. !2615

🎨 Themes​

• Updated the related teaser prefix to use the secondary font in chameleon-theme-sik. !2612
• Replaced the incorrect brand and brandActive icons with the correct ones in chameleon-theme-eco. !2611

🏠 Internal​

• Moved Chameleon Swift Components CI from Bitrise to GitLab Mac Runners. !2600

🎨 Themes​

• MHLU brands (CO, LT, LW, VL): sponsored content teaser tweaks. !2609

🏠 Internal​

• Updates to dependencies:
  • @percy/cli: 1.31.11 -> 1.31.13

🚀 New Feature​

• Added person-add icon for all brands. !2604

chameleon-react​

• Reworked Accordion to be progressively enhanced. !2591

🐛 Bug Fix​

chameleon-react​

• Fixed Tooltip triggering duplicate events on Enter/Space key presses. !2588
• Aligned Checkbox, Radio, and Switch by removing width: 100% from the outer wrapper to match other components. !2603

🎨 Themes​

• Updated assets across all brands: refreshed image placeholders (slight color and size changes) and updated MHNO icon sets. !2596 !2602

🏠 Internal​

• Updates to dependencies:
  • @floating-ui/react-dom: 2.1.6 -> 2.1.8
  • @percy/cli: 1.31.10 -> 1.31.11
  • libphonenumber-js: 1.12.40 -> 1.12.42
• Replaced fs-extra with Node.js built-in fs to reduce dependencies. !2590
• Migrated React component tests from fireEvent to userEvent. !2588

🎨 Themes​

• Updated assets for chameleon-theme-indo. !2584

🏠 Internal​

• Refactored Turborepo configuration for improved caching and task ordering. !2550
• Added a script to verify all package versions are in sync before publishing a release. !2577
• Cleaned up chameleon-theme-* README files. !2575
• Improved Swift CI pipelines. !2563
• Added long-term cache headers for hashed assets in the docs site and fixed a broken link. !2581

🎨 Themes​

• Onboarded 7 new MHNO brands (eco, fpo, hco, mco, nos, sco, stw). !2564

🏠 Internal​

• Updates to dependencies:
  • stylelint: 16.23.1 -> 17.6.0
  • @percy/storybook: 9.1.0 -> 10.0.0
  • @percy/cli: 1.31.7 -> 1.31.10
  • libphonenumber-js: 1.12.31 -> 1.12.40