Release history¶
3.7.0 (2016-12-12)¶
- Atom feeds output
<content>
in addition to<summary>
- Atom feeds use
<published>
for the original publication date and<updated>
for modifications - Simplify Atom feed ID generation and support URL fragments
- Produce category feeds with category-specific titles
- RSS feeds now default to summary instead of full content —
set
RSS_FEED_SUMMARY_ONLY = False
to revert to previous behavior - Replace
MD_EXTENSIONS
withMARKDOWN
setting - Replace
JINJA_EXTENSIONS
with more-robustJINJA_ENVIRONMENT
setting - Improve summary truncation logic to handle special characters and tags that span multiple lines, using HTML parser instead of regular expressions
- Include summary when looking for intra-site link substitutions
- Link to authors and index via
{author}name
and{index}
syntax - Override widget names via
LINKS_WIDGET_NAME
andSOCIAL_WIDGET_NAME
- Add
INDEX_SAVE_AS
option to override defaultindex.html
value - Remove
PAGES
context variable for themes in favor ofpages
SLUG_SUBSTITUTIONS
now accepts 3-tuple elements, allowing URL slugs to contain non-alphanumeric characters- Tag and category slugs can be controlled with greater precision using the
TAG_SUBSTITUTIONS
andCATEGORY_SUBSTITUTIONS
settings - Author slugs can be controlled with greater precision using the
AUTHOR_SUBSTITUTIONS
setting DEFAULT_DATE
can be defined as a string- Use
mtime
instead ofctime
whenDEFAULT_DATE = 'fs'
- Add
--fatal=errors|warnings
option for use with continuous integration - When using generator-level caching, ensure previously-cached files are processed instead of just new files.
- Add Python and Pelican version information to debug output
- Improve compatibility with Python 3.5
- Comply with and enforce PEP8 guidelines
- Replace tables in settings documentation with
data::
directives
3.6.3 (2015-08-14)¶
- Fix permissions issue in release tarball
3.6.2 (2015-08-01)¶
- Fix installation errors related to Unicode in tests
- Don’t show pagination in
notmyidea
theme if there’s only one page - Make hidden pages available in context
- Improve URLWrapper comparison
3.6.0 (2015-06-15)¶
- Disable caching by default in order to prevent potential confusion
- Improve caching behavior, replacing
pickle
withcpickle
- Allow Markdown or reST content in metadata fields other than
summary
- Support semicolon-separated author/tag lists
- Improve flexibility of article sorting
- Add
--relative-urls
argument - Support devserver listening on addresses other than localhost
- Unify HTTP server handlers to
pelican.server
throughout - Handle intra-site links to draft posts
- Move
tag_cloud
from core to plugin - Load default theme’s external resources via HTTPS
- Import drafts from WordPress XML
- Improve support for Windows users
- Enhance logging and test suite
- Clean up and refactor codebase
- New signals:
all_generators_finalized
andpage_writer_finalized
3.5.0 (2014-11-04)¶
- Introduce
ARTICLE_ORDER_BY
andPAGE_ORDER_BY
settings to control the order of articles and pages. - Include time zone information in dates rendered in templates.
- Expose the reader name in the metadata for articles and pages.
- Add the ability to store static files along with content in the same
directory as articles and pages using
{attach}
in the path. - Prevent Pelican from raising an exception when there are duplicate pieces of metadata in a Markdown file.
- Introduce the
TYPOGRIFY_IGNORE_TAGS
setting to add HTML tags to be ignored by Typogrify. - Add the ability to use
-
in date formats to strip leading zeros. For example,%-d/%-m/%y
will now result in the date9/8/12
. - Ensure feed generation is correctly disabled during quickstart configuration.
- Fix
PAGE_EXCLUDES
andARTICLE_EXCLUDES
from incorrectly matching sub-directories. - Introduce
STATIC_EXCLUDE
setting to add static file excludes. - Fix an issue when using
PAGINATION_PATTERNS
whileRELATIVE_URLS
is enabled. - Fix feed generation causing links to use the wrong language for month names when using other locales.
- Fix an issue where the authors list in the simple template wasn’t correctly formatted.
- Fix an issue when parsing non-string URLs from settings.
- Improve consistency of debug and warning messages.
3.4.0 (2014-07-01)¶
- Speed up content generation via new caching mechanism
- Add selective post generation (instead of always building entire site)
- Many documentation improvements, including switching to prettier RtD theme
- Add support for multiple content and plugin paths
- Add
:modified:
metadata field to complement:date:
. Used to specify the last date and time an article was updated independently from the date and time it was published. - Add support for multiple authors via new
:authors:
metadata field - Watch for changes in static directories when in auto-regeneration mode
- Add filters to limit log output when desired
- Add language support to drafts
- Add
SLUGIFY_SOURCE
setting to control how post slugs are generated - Fix many issues relating to locale and encoding
- Apply Typogrify filter to post summary
- Preserve file metadata (e.g. time stamps) when copying static files to output
- Move AsciiDoc support from Pelican core into separate plugin
- Produce inline links instead of reference-style links when importing content
- Improve handling of
IGNORE_FILES
setting behavior - Properly escape symbol characters in tag names (e.g.,
C++
) - Minor tweaks for Python 3.4 compatibility
- Add several new signals
3.3.0 (2013-09-24)¶
- Drop Python 3.2 support in favor of Python 3.3
- Add
Fabfile
so Fabric can be used for workflow automation instead of Make OUTPUT_RETENTION
setting can be used to preserve metadata (e.g., VCS data such as.hg
and.git
) from being removed from output directory- Tumblr import
- Improve logic and consistency when cleaning output folder
- Improve documentation versioning and release automation
- Improve pagination flexibility
- Rename signals for better consistency (some plugins may need to be updated)
- Move metadata extraction from generators to readers; metadata extraction no longer article-specific
- Deprecate
FILES_TO_COPY
in favor ofSTATIC_PATHS
andEXTRA_PATH_METADATA
- Summaries in Markdown posts no longer include footnotes
- Remove unnecessary whitespace in output via
lstrip_blocks
Jinja parameter - Move PDF generation from core to plugin
- Replace
MARKUP
setting withREADERS
- Add warning if img tag is missing
alt
attribute - Add support for
{}
in relative links syntax, besides||
- Add support for
{tag}
and{category}
relative links - Add a
content_written
signal
3.2.1 and 3.2.2¶
- Facilitate inclusion in FreeBSD Ports Collection
3.2 (2013-04-24)¶
- Support for Python 3!
- Override page save-to location from meta-data (enables using a static page as the site’s home page, for example)
- Time period archives (per-year, per-month, and per-day archives of posts)
- Posterous blog import
- Improve WordPress blog import
- Migrate plugins to separate repository
- Improve HTML parser
- Provide ability to show or hide categories from menu using
DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_MENU
option - Auto-regeneration can be told to ignore files via
IGNORE_FILES
setting - Improve post-generation feedback to user
- For multilingual posts, use meta-data to designate which is the original and which is the translation
- Add
.mdown
to list of supported Markdown file extensions - Document-relative URL generation (
RELATIVE_URLS
) is now off by default
3.1 (2012-12-04)¶
- Importer now stores slugs within files by default. This can be disabled with
the
--disable-slugs
option. - Improve handling of links to intra-site resources
- Ensure WordPress import adds paragraphs for all types of line endings in post content
- Decode HTML entities within WordPress post titles on import
- Improve appearance of LinkedIn icon in default theme
- Add GitHub and Google+ social icons support in default theme
- Optimize social icons
- Add
FEED_ALL_ATOM
andFEED_ALL_RSS
to generate feeds containing all posts regardless of their language - Split
TRANSLATION_FEED
intoTRANSLATION_FEED_ATOM
andTRANSLATION_FEED_RSS
- Different feeds can now be enabled/disabled individually
- Allow for blank author: if
AUTHOR
setting is not set, author won’t default to${USER}
anymore, and a post won’t contain any author information if the post author is empty - Move LESS and Webassets support from Pelican core to plugin
- The
DEFAULT_DATE
setting now defaults toNone
, which means that articles won’t be generated unless date metadata is specified - Add
FILENAME_METADATA
setting to support metadata extraction from filename - Add
gzip_cache
plugin to compress common text files into a.gz
file within the same directory as the original file, preventing the server (e.g. Nginx) from having to compress files during an HTTP call - Add support for AsciiDoc-formatted content
- Add
USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY
setting so that feature can be toggled on/off - Support arbitrary Jinja template files
- Restore basic functional tests
- New signals:
generator_init
,get_generators
, andarticle_generate_preread
3.0 (2012-08-08)¶
- Refactored the way URLs are handled
- Improved the English documentation
- Fixed packaging using
setuptools
entrypoints - Added
typogrify
support - Added a way to disable feed generation
- Added support for
DIRECT_TEMPLATES
- Allow multiple extensions for content files
- Added LESS support
- Improved the import script
- Added functional tests
- Rsync support in the generated Makefile
- Improved feed support (easily pluggable with Feedburner for instance)
- Added support for
abbr
in reST - Fixed a bunch of bugs :-)
2.8 (2012-02-28)¶
- Dotclear importer
- Allow the usage of Markdown extensions
- Themes are now easily extensible
- Don’t output pagination information if there is only one page
- Add a page per author, with all their articles
- Improved the test suite
- Made the themes easier to extend
- Removed Skribit support
- Added a
pelican-quickstart
script - Fixed timezone-related issues
- Added some scripts for Windows support
- Date can be specified in seconds
- Never fail when generating posts (skip and continue)
- Allow the use of future dates
- Support having different timezones per language
- Enhanced the documentation
2.7 (2011-06-11)¶
- Use
logging
rather than echoing to stdout - Support custom Jinja filters
- Compatibility with Python 2.5
- Added a theme manager
- Packaged for Debian
- Added draft support
2.6 (2011-03-08)¶
- Changes in the output directory structure
- Makes templates easier to work with / create
- Added RSS support (was Atom-only)
- Added tag support for the feeds
- Enhance the documentation
- Added another theme (brownstone)
- Added translations
- Added a way to use cleaner URLs with a rewrite url module (or equivalent)
- Added a tag cloud
- Added an autoreloading feature: the blog is automatically regenerated each time a modification is detected
- Translate the documentation into French
- Import a blog from an RSS feed
- Pagination support
- Added Skribit support
2.5 (2010-11-20)¶
- Import from WordPress
- Added some new themes (martyalchin / wide-notmyidea)
- First bug report!
- Linkedin support
- Added a FAQ
- Google Analytics support
- Twitter support
- Use relative URLs, not static ones
2.4 (2010-11-06)¶
- Minor themes changes
- Add Disqus support (so we have comments)
- Another code refactoring
- Added config settings about pages
- Blog entries can also be generated in PDF
2.3 (2010-10-31)¶
- Markdown support
2.2 (2010-10-30)¶
- Prettify output
- Manages static pages as well
2.1 (2010-10-30)¶
- Make notmyidea the default theme
2.0 (2010-10-30)¶
- Refactoring to be more extensible
- Change into the setting variables
1.2 (2010-09-28)¶
- Added a debug option
- Added per-category feeds
- Use filesystem to get dates if no metadata is provided
- Add Pygments support
1.1 (2010-08-19)¶
- First working version