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This release contains a security patch!

Security improvements

• Prevents rendering of *.internal URLs, patching an issue with GCE.
• Adds allow-listing option to restrict rendering to a given list of domains or URL patterns.

Features

• Include Heroku deploy documentation and an interactive "Click to deploy" for Heroku
• Introduces an API endpoint to clear all cache
• Adds timezone support
• Adds optional forced browser restart between renders
• Adds documentation to deploy Rendertron via Docker
• Adds option to add request headers to the rendered pages in Rendertron

Improvements

• Fixes a bug in the filesystem cache
• Fixes issue with the injected base tag
• Updates all dependencies
• Increased the required node.js version to Node.js 10+
• Updates to the FaQ

• Introduces new configuration file format for the config.json options (see README.md)
• Introduces new cache providers:
  • In-memory cache
  • File system cache
• Introduces API endpoint to invalidate cache for a URL
• Introduces a number of new configuration options
• Introduces refreshCache parameter to force cache update for a URL
• Relaunches browser when the browser disconnects from Puppeteer
• Now includes doctype in rendered output
• Harmonises the configuration options for caches
• Closes page after screenshot
• Fixes security issue with AppEngine deployments (fixes CVE-2020-8902)
• Fixes issue with specifying host and port