## 2024.12.0b3

- [font] cleanly handle font file format exception (Bugfix) [esphome#7970](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/7970) by [@clydebarrow](https://github.com/clydebarrow)
- [dashboard] Accept basic auth header [esphome#7965](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/7965) by [@jesserockz](https://github.com/jesserockz)
- Bump esphome-dashboard to 20241217.1 [esphome#7971](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/7971) by [@jesserockz](https://github.com/jesserockz)
- [esp32_ble] Use RAMAllocator to avoid panic abort from ``new`` [esphome#7936](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/7936) by [@jesserockz](https://github.com/jesserockz)