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+tags: ['posts',  'announcements']
+title: htmx 1.8.5 has been released!
+date: 2023-01-17
+---
+
+## htmx 1.8.5 Release
+
+I'm happy to announce the [1.8.5 release](https://unpkg.com/browse/htmx.org@1.8.5/) of htmx.
+
+### New Features
+
+* Support a new optional cache-busting configuration option, `getCacheBusterParam`, to allow browsers to disambiguate
+  between `GET` requests from htmx and from the raw browser
+* Support new `hx-history='false'` attribute, to prevent sensitive data from being stored in the history cache. (Thank you @croxton!)
+* Extensive new event-oriented features are available in the [Web Socket](/extensions/web-sockets/) extension (Thank you @Renerick!)
+
+### Improvements & Bug fixes
+
+* A bug fix for when a form contains multiple empty input values with the same name (Thank you @bluekeyes!)
+* A bug fix around inputs that throw exceptions when calling `setSelectionRange()` (Thank you @gone!)
+* A bug fix to pass through the proper event for the `htmx:configRequest` event
+* A bug fix/improvement for the `preload` extension
+* Many other small bug and doc fixes
+
+Thank you to everyone who contributed, and enjoy!