🚀 New Feature​

chameleon-react​

• AutoComplete: reworked internals to fix race conditions between focus, typing and selection. itemToString is now an official prop, and a new actionsRef exposes open(), close(), toggle() for imperative control. Added a defaultValue prop and improved list a11y attributes. !2706

🏠 Internal​

• Updates to dependencies:
  • @easyops-cn/docusaurus-search-local: 0.55.2 -> 0.55.3
  • @percy/cli: 1.31.14 -> 1.32.5
  • @storybook/*: 10.4.0 -> 10.5.5
  • @testing-library/jest-dom: ^6.6.3 -> ^7.0.0
  • @types/node: 26.1.1 -> 26.1.2
  • @vitejs/plugin-react: 6.0.4 -> 6.0.5
  • es-toolkit: 1.39.10 -> 1.50.0
  • jsdom: ^26.0.0 -> ^30.0.0
  • postcss-preset-env: 10.1.5 -> 11.3.2
  • prettier: 3.6.2 -> 3.9.6
  • vite: 8.1.0 -> 8.2.0
• Simplified Docker image and improved CI tooling. !2649
• Fixed favicon.ico 404s on the docsite. !2716
• Fix Storybook after automatic JSX runtime changes. !2705
• Updated example apps. !2707
• Ran claude /doctor. !2704

🚀 New Feature​

chameleon-react​

• Exposed locale as a top-level export. !2678
• ListTeaser: added an articleType prop that renders a matching icon. !2674

🐛 Bug Fix​

chameleon-react​

• Fixed Telecran's locale, which was incorrectly set to en-GB instead of de-DE. !2679
• Theme config JSON files are now imported with import attributes (with { type: 'json' }). !2673

🎨 Themes​

chameleon-theme-hbvl​

• Updated the design for Button in the premium subtheme. !2666

🏠 Internal​

• Updates to dependencies:
  • @floating-ui/react-dom: 2.1.8 -> 2.1.9
  • @swc/cli: ^0.7.9 -> ^0.8.0
  • @swc/core: 1.15.40 -> 1.15.47
  • @swc/helpers: 0.5.17 -> 0.5.23
  • @vitejs/plugin-react: 6.0.3 -> 6.0.4
  • docusaurus/*: 3.9.2 -> 3.10.2
  • globals: ^16.3.0 -> ^17.0.0
  • http-proxy-middleware: ^3.0.0 -> ^4.0.0
  • ora: ^8.0.1 -> ^9.0.0
  • p-limit: ^6.0.0 -> ^7.0.0
  • pnpm: 10.27.0 -> 11.17.0
  • postcss: 8.5.15 -> 8.5.23
  • postcss-preset-env: ^10.1.5 -> ^11.0.0
  • svgo: 4.0.1 -> 4.0.2
  • swc-loader: 0.2.6 -> 0.2.7
  • turbo: 2.6.3 -> 2.10.7
  • vike: 0.4.252 -> 0.4.260
  • vitest: 4.1.9 -> 4.1.10
• Fixed broken env var expansion in .npmrc since pnpm v11. !2702
• Added a middleware to chameleon-docs that blocks hotlinking to its assets, protecting the site's edge-request rate limit. !2701
• Fully committed chameleon-react to the automatic JSX runtime. !2680
• Added a figma-code-connect skill for generating Code Connect files for chameleon-react components. !2663

🎨 Themes​

chameleon-theme-ds​

• Fixed a regression in the Arnhem font (Blond, Bold, Semibold) introduced in a previous release that stripped out entities. !2671 !2672

🚀 New Feature​

• Added new icons edit and flag-active, and re-synced the frd icon set after a sync issue. !2656

🐛 Bug Fix​

chameleon-react​

• Theme config types are now derived from the actual theme imports instead of a hardcoded list, so keyof typeof themeConfigs is accurate again. !2669

🏠 Internal​

• Updates to dependencies:
  • libphonenumber-js: 1.13.3 -> 1.13.7
  • date-fns: 4.1.0 -> 4.4.0
  • @easyops-cn/docusaurus-search-local: ^0.52.0 -> ^0.55.0
  • svgo: 4.0.0 -> 4.0.1
  • eslint-import-resolver-typescript: 4.4.4 -> 4.4.5
  • downshift: 9.3.2 -> 9.3.6
  • vite: ^7.2.4 -> ^8.0.0
• Moved chameleon-swift-components snapshot tests to Percy, matching Kotlin and Web. !2662
• Removed the hardcoded GitLab auth token from the project .npmrc to stop a pnpm warning for anyone without that env variable sourced locally. !2655
• Fixed broken links in the docs still pointing to the obsolete PostCSS configuration for chameleon-react. !2657
• Renamed CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md and added CLAUDE.md shims pointing to the new files. !2650

🎉🦎 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