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title: "March 2026 - v1.8.0"
description: "Release notes for v1.8.0."
date: 2026-03-13
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This release stabilizes the `v1.7.x` import and script changes.
The automatic component script injection introduced in `v1.7.x` has been reverted. Interactive components should be loaded explicitly via `@component.Script()` in your layout again to avoid duplicate execution and swap-related bugs with HTMX and DataStar.

### Added

- chart: Added `RawConfig map[string]any` as an escape hatch for passing native Chart.js configs directly, plus a new mixed-chart showcase example (#502)

### Changed

- scripts: Reverted the `v1.7.x` automatic component script injection experiment; interactive components must be loaded explicitly via `@component.Script()` in your layout again
- popover: Rebuilt the component around a root/content structure without the previous global portal behavior, making popover-based components safer during partial swaps and repeated DOM updates
- dialog: Moved dialog layers into a shared root synced from each dialog instance, improving nested overlay behavior and DOM cleanup
- docs: Simplified the import and CLI workflow documentation, including clearer asset-routing and script-loading instructions
- docs: Updated per-component usage snippets so interactive components show the required `@component.Script()` call directly in the docs
- docs: Updated the docs site to load `htmx@4.0.0-alpha7`

### Fixed

- scripts: Fixed the `v1.7.x` duplicate-script and re-execution problems that broke popovers and other interactive components, including sidebar/popover conflicts and Datastar fragment patch regressions (#516, #518)
- popover: Fixed duplicate popover content IDs and stale floating layers during HTMX swaps or repeated client-side/template instantiation (#500, #495)
- dialog: Fixed dialog usage inside dropdowns and other popover-based overlays (#513)

Released in [v1.8.0](https://github.com/axadrn/shadcn-templ/releases/tag/v1.8.0).