The upcoming rmarkdown will use Pandoc's HTML raw attribute instead of preservation tokens (<!--html_preserve--><!--/html_preserve-->).
This will break our cross-referencing feature (rstudio/rmarkdown#1965 (comment)).
Fortunately, @jjallaire told me the workaround rstudio/rmarkdown#1965 (comment) .
(I'll try to make some time to work on this in December)