Another addition that wasn’t covered in the release notes, these will now automatically be linked to your local instance without having to do anything:
Edit: Forgot about kbin support
The markup is rendered as links when a valid format is detected without modifying the underlying text:
I saw those giant threads where it was being discussed in circles and decided to take a crack at implementing it myself. Turns out it was not that difficult, I think I was just the first developer who found the threads and took action. Everyone else was focused on getting bug fixes into this release.
Another small one I added that wasn’t called out is images now have title tags, so they will show their alt text on hover. This is also useful for screen readers.