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Week 08 2026 Changelog

02 Mar, 2026

Added

Added new social media icons for Bluesky and Mastodon to the static images, enhancing social sharing options.

Changed

Updated newsletter-related files (newsletter/helpers.py and newsletter/templates/newsletter.html) to improve comment crawling and newsletter generation.
Modified CSS styles in hnbooks.css for better UI/UX.
Improved test setup with changes to tests/conftest.py.
Updated development dependencies in requirements-dev.txt.
Refined Docker Compose configuration in hnb-web/docker-compose.yml for better local environment management.

Infra/CI

Made changes to the hnb-book-crawler/Dockerfile.cron to improve cron job automation and crawler deployment. This file was updated multiple times to support automation and crawler improvements.