# Glance v0.8.3

- Product: Glance (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/glanceapp)
- Vendor: Glance
- Date: 2025-05-19
- Version: v0.8.3
- Original notes: https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/releases/tag/v0.8.3
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/glanceapp/releases/v0.8.3

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- **added** — Added the ability to disable the theme picker via `disable-picker: true` under `theme`
- **added** — Added `mod` function (modulo) to the custom API widget
- **added** — Added `safeHTML` function to the custom API widget which prevents HTML from being escaped
- **added** — Added `.Options.JSON` to the custom API widget which takes any nested option value and turns it into a JSON string
- **added** — Added the theme key to the document root so that you can apply styles based on the selected theme
- **fixed** — Fixed `HTTP_PROXY` and `HTTPS_PROXY` environment variables not getting used
- **fixed** — Fixed truncated links' hover text having unnecessary whitespace

##### New

* Added the ability to disable the theme picker via `disable-picker: true` under `theme` (thanks @NeoNyaa) 
* Added `mod` function (modulo) to the custom API widget (thanks @anant-j)
* Added `safeHTML` function to the custom API widget which prevents HTML from being escaped (thanks @sudoexec)
* Added `.Options.JSON` to the custom API widget which takes any nested option value and turns it into a JSON string (thanks @ralphocdol)

<details>
  <summary>View example</summary>

```yaml
- type: custom-api
  options: 
    request-body: 
      service: Session
      method: login
      params: 
        username: ${USERNAME}
        password: ${PASSWORD}

  # useful if you need to send JSON in a request body
  template: |
    ...
    | withStringBody (.Options.JSON "request-body")
    ...
```

</details>

* Added the theme key to the document root so that you can apply styles based on the selected theme (thanks @EricKotato)

<details>
  <summary>View example</summary>

```css
:root[data-theme="default-dark"] {
    .color-primary-if-not-visited {
        color: #ff0000;
    }
}

:root[data-theme="default-light"] {
    .color-primary-if-not-visited {
        color: #00ff00;
    }
}

:root[data-theme="your-theme-name"] {
    .color-primary-if-not-visited { 
        color: #0000ff;
    }
}
```
</details>

##### Fixes

* Fixed `HTTP_PROXY` and `HTTPS_PROXY` environment variables not getting used (thanks @mazzz1y) 
* Fixed truncated links' hover text having unnecessary whitespace (thanks @ralphocdol)

[Visit the release notes for v0.8.0 to learn about all new features](https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/releases/tag/v0.8.0)