• closeBtnLabel (driver and step level) to set the close button's aria-label, for translated tours. Defaults to Close. (#623)
• overlayClickBehavior: "none" to ignore overlay clicks while Escape and the close button still close the tour. (#435)

• Keyboard control follows the popover buttons: arrow keys do nothing when their button is hidden or disabled, and Escape does nothing when the close button is disabled. (#589)
• The current popover is hidden while waitForElement waits for the next step's element, so a stale step no longer stays on screen. (#578)
• Only one instance is on screen at a time. Starting a tour or highlight closes any other active instance; it gets onDeselected and onDestroyed but not onDestroyStarted.

• destroy() on an instance that is not active is now a no-op instead of tearing down another instance's tour. (#504)
• The highlighted element's own aria-controls, aria-expanded and aria-haspopup are restored when the highlight moves on or the tour ends, instead of being removed. (#495)
• No more small white square between steps without an element. (#549)
• onDeselected now fires when moving between two steps on the same element, or between two steps without an element.
• The driver-level disableButtons now applies to tour steps. It used to be ignored during a tour. A step's own disableButtons still replaces it.

• Hints: pulsing beacons that open a popover on click; overlay optional, the page stays interactive. driver.js/hints, ~5KB gzip. Guide. (#363)
• advanceOnClick (driver and step level) to advance the tour by clicking the highlighted element itself. (#606)
• waitForElement (driver and step level) to wait up to N ms for a step's element before treating it as missing. (#606)
• sideEffects field in package.json for better tree-shaking.

• Popover internals shared between tours and hints; tour behaviour verified unchanged against 1.7.0.
• Build migrated from vite to tsdown; artifact names, exports map and CDN globals unchanged, sizes within ±2%.

• skipMissingElement: the last reachable step now shows Done and runs onDoneClick; step queries like isLastStep() account for skips. (#616)

• skipMissingElement option to skip a step whose target element is missing (#489, #395)
• index on the options passed to every hook (#490)
• --driver-popover-font-family CSS variable to set the popover font (#607)

• The popover title and description now render in the default font stack. Set --driver-popover-font-family to use your own.

• Icon fonts placed inside a step description are no longer overridden (#510, #512)
• Each driver() call keeps its own config, steps and state, (#571)
• Popover no longer jumps when its content has images that load after render.

• animationDuration config to control how long the highlight transition takes. (#104)
• allowScroll config to lock body scroll while a tour is active.
• onDoneClick hook, fired when the done button on the final step is clicked. (#500)
• data property on a step for passing arbitrary data, accessible from hooks for custom per-step logic. (#539)

• Breaking - Custom popover footer buttons no longer get auto styled, style them using .driver-popover-footer button selector (#555)
• The popover exposes driver-popover-side-* and driver-popover-align-* classes as per the rendered side and alignment https://github.com/nilbuild/driver.js/issues/608
• Arrow positioning has been fixed https://github.com/nilbuild/driver.js/issues/558 https://github.com/nilbuild/driver.js/issues/429 https://github.com/nilbuild/driver.js/issues/406

• Document event listener leak in onDriverClick that left handlers attached after the tour was destroyed. (#452)
• Dropped the CSS :has() selector for broader browser compatibility. (#586)
• Positioned highlighted elements and their children (e.g. dropdown menus) no longer get clipped. (#454, #563)
• removeChild DOMException when re-rendering a popover whose wrapper was already detached from the DOM. (#572)
• Close button on a single-element highlight() popover did nothing when clicked. It now closes the popover by default, respecting allowClose and any custom onCloseClick. (#444)

• [x] Add done-btn class to next button (closes #610)
• [x] Pass final state to onDestroyed hook (closes #553)
• [x] Keep tour open on arrow-left at step 1 (closes #564)
• [x] Remove button text-shadow ghost text (closes #605)
• [x] Fire onNextClick on overlay nextStep (closes #576)
• [x] Add getNextStep to the driver API (closes #420)
• [x] Remove unicode characters from buttons

• [x] overlayClickBehavior now supports callbacks (Fixes https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/issues/476, https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/pull/600)
• [x] Documents missing configuration option https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/pull/573

• [x] Fix - Buttons not clickable when they have nested elements https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/pull/560
• [x] Documents the missing options https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/pull/562
• [x] Fix - Module not found: Default condition should be last one https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/issues/545
• [x] Fix - Type definition for onPopoverRender https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/pull/548
• [x] Fix - CSS not importable in CSS files

Thank you @jarikmarwede @SliverYuki and @ervan23 for the contributions 🙏

• [x] Fix https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/issues/431 - Scroll to top for taller elements
• [x] Fixes issue where CSS is not importable in CSS file using @import

• [x] Fixes alignment issue in some cases https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/issues/531
• [x] Improves documentation (Thanks @jarikmarwede https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/pull/544)
• [x] Exposes driver instance in hooks https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/issues/537
• [x] Allows element to be function type (Thanks @richie-south https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/pull/463)
• [x] Allows disabling interactions with active element (Thanks @tmsperera https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/pull/534)
• [x] Allows overlay click to navigate to next step (Thanks @CryUshio https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/pull/499)

• [x] Add programmatically destroy to api docs https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/pull/438
• [x] Add license to package.json https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/pull/432
• [x] Fix error in vite config https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js/pull/416