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Erik Nijenhuis submitted an update to the

lua-placeholders

package.

Version: 2.0.1 2026-05-09
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Specifying placeholders for demonstration purposes

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## Highlights

This release is a major step forward for `lua-placeholders`, with
expanded placeholder capabilities, broader engine support, improved
documentation, and updated build/release automation.

## Added

- Added support for date values in placeholders.
- Added support for table parameters.
- Added support for row-specific parameter resolution in tables.
- Added support for list and object cell types.
- Added support for list and object parameters.
- Added support for nested list, object, and table compositions.
- Added support for rendering complex placeholder data structures.
- Added plain LuaTeX support, including dedicated tests.
- Added hook detection for plain LuaTeX and guarded hook usage where needed.
- Added example-based tests.

## Changed

- Refactored row-binding logic for table parameters.
- Refactored context stack handling for parameter resolution.
- Refactored token handling and formatting to better support plain LuaTeX.
- Improved placeholder handling for complex types.
- Improved documentation for:
- Lua dates
- table parameters
- special characters in table cell values
- list and object types
- nested compositions
- plain LuaTeX usage
- parameter types
- engine-specific behavior
- Removed the `ifthen` dependency.
- Updated tests and expected output for the expanded feature set.
- Updated build and publish workflows.

## Fixed

- Fixed handling of fixed dates in expected test output.
- Fixed empty-data rendering behavior for complex placeholder structures.
- Fixed and improved build/release workflow configuration.

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Xerdi/lua-placeholders/compare/1.0.3...2.0.1

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