This is a bug-fix release with one important fix. But it also adds some harness around GoReleaser to automate the Hugo release process. Big thanks to @caarlos0 for great and super-fast support fixing issues along the way.

Hugo now has:

16619+ stars
458+ contributors
156+ themes

Enhancement

Automate the Hugo release process 550eba64 @bep #3358

Fix

Fix handling of zero-length files 9bf5c381 @bep #3355

Automated with @goreleaser
Built with go version go1.8.1 linux/amd64

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16 Apr 11:24

bep

v0.20.2

1726e90

v0.20.2

0.20.2 April 16th 2017

Hugo 0.20.2 adds support for plain text partials included into HTML templates. This was a side-effect of the big new Custom Output Format feature in 0.20, and while the change was intentional and there was an ongoing discussion about fixing it in #3273, it did break some themes. There were valid workarounds for these themes, but we might as well get it right.

The most obvious use case for this is inline CSS styles, which you now can do without having to name your partials with a html suffix.

A simple example:

In layouts/partials/mystyles.css:

body {
	background-color: {{ .Param "colors.main" }}
}

Then in config.toml (note that by using the .Param lookup func, we can override the color in a page’s front matter if we want):

[params]
[params.colors]
main = "green"
text = "blue"

And then in layouts/partials/head.html (or the partial used to include the head section into your layout):

<head>
    <style type="text/css">
    {{ partial "mystyles.css" . | safeCSS }}
    </style>
</head>

Of course, 0.20 also made it super-easy to create external CSS stylesheets based on your site and page configuration. A simple example:

Add “CSS” to your home page’s outputs list, create the template /layouts/index.css using Go template syntax for the dynamic parts, and then include it into your HTML template with:

{{ with  .OutputFormats.Get "css" }}
<link rel="{{ .Rel }}" type="{{ .MediaType.Type }}" href="{{ .Permalink |  safeURL }}">
{{ end }}`

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13 Apr 14:19

bep

v0.20.1

8ac1fcd

v0.20.1

0.20.1 April 13th 2017

Hugo 0.20.1 is a bug fix release, fixing some important regressions introduced in 0.20 a couple of days ago:

Fix logic for base template in work dir vs in the theme #3323
camelCased templates (partials, shortcodes etc.) not found #3333
Live-reload fails with _index.md with paginator #3315
rssURI WARNING always shown #3319

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10 Apr 07:32

bep

v0.20

dac0d4a

v0.20

0.20 April 10th 2017

Hugo 0.20 introduces the powerful and long sought after feature Custom Output Formats; Hugo isn’t just that “static HTML with an added RSS feed” anymore. Say hello to calendars, e-book formats, Google AMP, and JSON search indexes, to name a few ( #2828 ).

This release represents over 180 contributions by over 30 contributors to the main Hugo code base. Since last release Hugo has gained 1100 stars, 20 new contributors and 5 additional themes.

Hugo now has:

16300+ stars
495+ contributors
156+ themes

@bep still leads the Hugo development with his witty Norwegian humor, and once again contributed a significant amount of additions. Also a big shoutout to @digitalcraftsman for his relentless work on keeping the documentation and the themes site in pristine condition, and @moorereason and @bogem for their ongoing contributions.

Other Highlights

@bogem has also contributed TOML as an alternative and much simpler format for language/i18n files (#3200). A feature you will appreciate when you start to work on larger translations.

Also, there have been some important updates in the Emacs Org-mode handling: @chaseadamsio has fixed the newline-handling ( #3126 ) and @clockoon has added basic footnote support.

Worth mentioning is also the ongoing work that @rdwatters and @budparr is doing to re-do the gohugo.io site, including a total restructuring and partial rewrite of the documentation. It is getting close to finished, and it looks fantastic!

Notes

RSS description in the built-in template is changed from full .Content to .Summary. This is a somewhat breaking change, but is what most people expect from their RSS feeds. If you want full content, please provide your own RSS template.
The deprecated .RSSlink is now removed. Use .RSSLink.
RSSUri is deprecated and will be removed in a future Hugo version, replace it with an output format definition.
The deprecated .Site.GetParam is now removed, use .Site.Param.
Hugo does no longer append missing trailing slash to baseURL set as a command line parameter, making it consistent with how it behaves from site config. #3262

Enhancements

Hugo 0.20 is built with Go 1.8.1.
Add .Site.Params.mainSections that defaults to the section with the most pages. Plan is to get themes to use this instead of the hardcoded blog in where clauses. #3206
File extension is now configurable. #320
Impove markdownify template function performance. #3292
Add taxonomy terms’ pages to .Data.Pages #2826
Change RSS description from full .Content to .Summary.
Ignore “.” dirs in hugo --cleanDestinationDir #3202
Allow jekyll import to accept both 2006-01-02 and 2006-1-2 date format #2738
Raise the default rssLimit #3145
Unify section list vs single template lookup order #3116
Allow apply to be used with the built-in Go template funcs print, printf and println. #3139

Fixes

Fix deadlock in getJSON #3211
Make sure empty terms pages are created. #2977
Fix base template lookup order for sections #2995
URL fixes:
- Fix pagination URLs with baseURL with sub-root and canonifyUrls=false #1252
- Fix pagination URL for resources with “.” in name #2110 #2374 #1885
- Handle taxonomy names with period #3169
- Handle uglyURLs ambiguity in Permalink #3102
- Fix Permalink for language-roots wrong when uglyURLs is true #3179
- Fix misc case issues for URLs #1641
- Fix for taxonomies URLs when uglyUrls=true #1989
- Fix empty RSSLink for list pages with content page. #3131
Correctly identify regular pages on the form “my_index_page.md” #3234
Exit -1 on ERROR in global logger #3239
Document hugo help command #2349
Fix internal Hugo version handling for bug fix releases. #3025
Only return RSSLink for pages that actually have a RSS feed. #1302

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27 Feb 12:54

bep

v0.19

0a99168

v0.19

0.19 February 27th 2017

We’re happy to announce the first release of Hugo in 2017.

This release represents over 180 contributions by over 50 contributors to the main Hugo code base. Since last release Hugo has gained 1450 stars, 35 new contributors and 15 additional themes.

Hugo now has:

15200+ stars
470+ contributors
151+ themes

Furthermore, Hugo has its own Twitter account (@gohugoio) where we share bite-sized news and themes from the Hugo community.

@bep leads the Hugo development and once again contributed a significant amount of additions. Also a big shoutout to @chaseadamsio for the Emacs Org-mode support, @digitalcraftsman for his relentless work on keeping the documentation and the themes site in pristine condition, @fj for his work on revising the params handling in Hugo, and @moorereason and @bogem for their ongoing contributions.

Highlights

Hugo 0.19 brings native Emacs Org-mode content support ( #1483 ), big thanks to @chaseadamsio.

Also, a considerably amount of work have been put into cleaning up the Hugo source code, in an issue titled Refactor the globals out of site build. This is not immediately visible to the Hugo end user, but will speed up future development.

Hugo 0.18 was bringing full-parallel page rendering, so workarounds depending on rendering order did not work anymore, and pages with duplicate target paths (common examples would be /index.md or /about/index.md) would now conflict with the home page or the section listing.

With Hugo 0.19, you can control this behaviour by turning off page types you do not want ( #2534 ). In its most extreme case, if you put the below setting in your config.toml, you will get nothing!:

disableKinds = ["page", "home", "section", "taxonomy", "taxonomyTerm", "RSS", "sitemap", "robotsTXT", "404"]

Other New Features

Add ability to sort pages by frontmatter parameters, enabling easy custom “top 10” page lists. #3022
Add truncate template function #2882
Add now function, which replaces the now deprecated .Now #2859
Make RSS item limit configurable #3035

Enhancements

Enhance .Param to permit arbitrarily nested parameter references #2598
Use Page.Params more consistently when adding metadata #3033
The sectionPagesMenu feature (“Section menu for the lazy blogger”) is now integrated with the section content pages. #2974
Hugo 0.19 is compiled with Go 1.8!
Make template funcs like findRE and friends more liberal in what argument types they accept #3018 #2822
Improve generation of OpenGraph date tags #2979

Notes

sourceRelativeLinks is now deprecated and will be removed in Hugo 0.21 if no one is stepping up to the plate and fixes and maintains this feature. #3028

Fixes

Fix .Site.LastChange on sites where the default sort order is not chronological. #2909
Fix regression of .Truncated evaluation in manual summaries. #2989
Fix preserveTaxonomyNames regression #3070
Fix issue with taxonomies when only some have content page #2992
Fix instagram shortcode panic on invalid ID #3048
Fix subtle data race in getJSON #3045
Fix deadlock in cached partials #2935
Avoid double-encoding of paginator URLs #2177
Allow tilde in URLs #2177
Fix .Site.Pages handling on live reloads #2869
UniqueID now correctly uses the fill file path from the content root to calculate the hash, and is finally … unique!
Discard current language based on .Lang(), go get translations correct for paginated pages. #2972
Fix infinite loop in template AST handling for recursive templates #2927
Fix issue with watching when config loading fails #2603
Correctly flush the imageConfig on live-reload #3016
Fix parsing of TOML arrays in frontmatter #2752

Docs

Add tutorial “How to use Google Firebase to host a Hugo site” #3007
Improve documentation for menu rendering #3056
Revise GitHub Pages deployment tutorial #2930

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30 Dec 10:41

bep

v0.18.1

dab1303

v0.18.1

0.18.1 December 30th 2016

Hugo 0.18.1 is a bug fix release fixing some issues introduced in Hugo 0.18:

Fix 32-bit binaries #2847
Fix issues with preserveTaxonomyNames #2809
Fix .URL for taxonomy pages when uglyURLs=true #2819
Fix IsTranslated and Translations for node pages #2812
Make template error messages more verbose #2820

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19 Dec 15:15

bep

v0.18

09cc791

v0.18

0.18.0 December 19th 2016

Today, we’re excited to release the much-anticipated Hugo 0.18!

We’re heading towards the end of the year 2016, and we can look back on three releases and a steady growing community around the project. This release includes over 220 contributions by nearly 50 contributors to the main codebase. Since the last release, Hugo has gained 1750 stars and 27 additional themes.

Hugo now has:

13750+ stars
408+ contributors
137+ themes

@bep once again took the lead of Hugo and contributed a significant amount of additions. Also a big shoutout to @digitalcraftsman for his relentless work on keeping the documentation and the themes site in pristine condition, and also a big thanks to @moorereason and @bogem for their contributions.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The Hugo team

Highlights

The primary new feature in Hugo 0.18 is that every piece of content is now a Page ( #2297 ). This means that every page, including the home page, can have a content file with frontmatter. Not only is this a much simpler model to understand, it is also faster and paved the way for several important new features:

Enable proper titles for Nodes #1051
Sitemap.xml should include nodes, as well as pages #1303
Document homepage content workaround #2240
Allow home page to be easily authored in markdown #720
Minimalist website with homepage as content #330

Hugo again continues its trend of each release being faster than the last. It’s quite a challenge to consistently add significant new functionality and simultaneously dramatically improve performance. Running this benchmark with these sites (renders to memory) shows about 60% reduction in time spent and 30% reduction in memory usage compared to Hugo 0.17.

Other New Features

Every Page now has a Kind property. Since everything is a Page now, the Kind is used to differentiate different kinds of pages. Possible values are page, home, section, taxonomy, and taxonomyTerm. (Internally, we also define RSS, sitemap, robotsTXT, and 404, but those have no practical use for end users at the moment since they are not included in any collections.)
Add a GitInfo object to Page if enableGitInfo is set. It then also sets Lastmod for the given Page to the author date provided by Git. #2291
Implement support for alias templates #2533
New template functions:
Add imageConfig function #2677
Add sha256 function #2762
Add partialCached template function #1368
Add shortcode to display Instagram images #2690
Add noChmod option to disable perm sync #2749
Add quiet build mode #1218

Notices

.Site.Pages will now contain several kinds of pages, including regular pages, sections, taxonomies, and the home page. If you want a specific kind of page, you can filter it with where and Kind. .Site.RegularPages is a shortcut to the page collection you have been used to getting.
RSSlink is now deprecated. Use RSSLink instead. Note that in Hugo 0.17 both of them existed, so there is a fifty-fifty chance you will not have to do anything (if you use a theme, the chance is close to 0), and RSSlink will still work for two Hugo versions.

Fixes

Revise the base template lookup logic so it now better matches the behavior of regular templates, making it easier to override the master templates from the theme #2783
Add workaround for block template crash. Block templates are very useful, but there is a bug in Go 1.6 and 1.7 which makes the template rendering crash if you use the block template in more complex scenarios. This is fixed in the upcoming Go 1.8, but Hugo adds a temporary workaround in Hugo 0.18. #2549
All the Params configurations are now case insensitive #1129 #2590 #2615
Make RawContent raw again #2601
Fix archetype title and date handling #2750
Fix TOML archetype parsing in hugo new #2745
Fix page sorting when weight is zero #2673
Fix page names that contain dot #2555
Fix RSS Title regression #2645
Handle ToC before handling shortcodes #2433
Only watch relevant themes dir #2602
Hugo new content creates TOML slices with closing bracket on new line #2800

Improvements

Add page information to error logging in rendering #2570
Deprecate RSSlink in favor of RSSLink
Make benchmark command more useful #2432
Consolidate the Param methods #2590
Allow to set cache dir in config file
Performance improvements:
Avoid repeated Viper loads of sectionPagesMenu #2728
Avoid reading from Viper for path and URL funcs #2495
Add partialCached template function. This can be a significant performance boost if you have complex partials that does not need to be rerendered for every page. #1368

Documentation Updates

Update roadmap #2666
Update multilingual example #2417
Add a “Deployment with rsync” tutorial page #2658
Refactor /docs to use the block keyword #2226

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07 Oct 15:07

spf13

v0.17

e1e677f

v0.17

Hugo is going global with our 0.17 release. We put a lot of thought into how we could extend Hugo to support multilingual websites with the most simple and elegant experience. Hugo’s multilingual capabilities rival the best web and documentation software, but Hugo’s experience is unmatched. If you have a single language website, the simple Hugo experience you already love is unchanged. Adding additional languages to your website is simple and straightforward. Hugo has been completely internally rewritten to be multilingual aware with translation and internationalization features embedded throughout Hugo.

Hugo continues its trend of each release being faster than the last. It’s quite a challenge to consistently add significant new functionality and simultaneously dramatically improve performance. @bep has made it his personal mission to apply the Go mantra of “Enable more. Do less” to Hugo. Hugo’s consistent improvement is a testament to his brilliance and his dedication to his craft. Hugo additionally benefits from the performance improvements from the Go team in the Go 1.7 release.

This release represents over 300 contributions by over 70 contributors to the main Hugo code base. Since last release Hugo has gained 2000 stars, 50 new contributors and 20 additional themes.

Hugo now has:

12,000 stars on GitHub
370+ contributors
110+ themes

@bep continues to lead the project with the lionshare of contributions and reviews. A special thanks to @bep and @abourget for their considerable work on multilingual support.

A big welcome to newcomers @MarkDBlackwell , @bogem and @g3wanghc for their critical contributions.

Highlights

Multilingual Support: Hugo now supports multiple languages side-by-side. A single site can now have multiple languages rendered with full support for translation and i18n.

Performance: Hugo is faster than ever! Hugo 0.17 is not only our fastest release, it’s also the most efficient. Hugo 0.17 is nearly twice as fast as Hugo 0.16 and uses about 10% less memory. This means that the same site will build in nearly half the time it took with Hugo 0.16. For the first time Hugo sites are averaging well under 1ms per rendered content.

Docs overhaul: This release really focused on improving the documentation. Gohugo.io is more accurate and complete than ever.

Support for macOS Sierra

New Features

Multilingual support #2303
Allow content expiration #2137
New templates functions:
querify function to generate query strings inside templates #2257
htmlEscape and htmlUnescape template functions #2287
time converts a timestamp string into a time.Time structure #2329

Enhancements

Render the shortcodes as late as possible ed0985
Remove unneeded casts in page.getParam #2186
Automatic page date fallback #2239
Enable safeHTMLAttr #2234
Add TODO list support for markdown #2296
Make absURL and relURL accept any type #2352
Suppress ‘missing static’ error #2344
Make summary, wordcount etc. more efficient #2378
Better error reporting in hugo convert #2440
Reproducible builds thanks to govendor #2461

Fixes

Fix shortcode in markdown headers #2210
Explicitly bind livereload to hugo server port #2205
Fix Emojify for certain text patterns #2198
Normalize file name to NFC #2259
Ignore emacs temp files #2266
Handle symlink change event #2273
Fix panic when using URLize #2274
hugo import jekyll: Fixed target path location check #2293
Return all errors from casting in templates #2356
Fix paginator counter on x86-32 #2420
Fix half-broken self-closing shortcodes #2499

Hugo packaged natively for various GNU/Linux distributions

New in 0.17: Available as Snap package

Thanks to the contribution #2443 and guidance from @dholbach, Hugo is now available as a Snap package! (Snaps are a new kind of universal Linux packages.) Check it out at https://uappexplorer.com/app/hugo.hugo-authors

Better yet, install the snapd package on your Linux distribution, and run sudo snap install hugo to install it, and voilà! Available amd64 (x86_64), i386, armhf, arm64 and ppc64el platforms, thanks to the automatic cross-building infrastructure provided on Launchpad.

.deb packages for Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

See https://packages.debian.org/sid/hugo

Currently still at 0.16, 0.17 pending. Thank you for your patience!

RPM package for Fedora (and Mandriva, openSUSE, etc.)

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/spf13/Hugo/

Currently still at 0.16, 0.17 pending. Thank you for your patience!

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Fixes

Enhancement

Fix

0.20.2 April 16th 2017

0.20.1 April 13th 2017

0.20 April 10th 2017

Other Highlights

Notes

Enhancements

Fixes

0.19 February 27th 2017

Highlights

Other New Features

Enhancements

Notes

Fixes

Docs

0.18.1 December 30th 2016

0.18.0 December 19th 2016

Highlights

Other New Features

Notices

Fixes

Improvements

Documentation Updates

Highlights

New Features

Enhancements

Fixes

Hugo packaged natively for various GNU/Linux distributions

New in 0.17: Available as Snap package

.deb packages for Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

RPM package for Fedora (and Mandriva, openSUSE, etc.)

Releases: gohugoio/hugo

v0.20.5

v0.20.4

Fixes

v0.20.3

Enhancement

Fix

v0.20.2

0.20.2 April 16th 2017

v0.20.1

0.20.1 April 13th 2017

v0.20

0.20 April 10th 2017

Other Highlights

Notes

Enhancements

Fixes

v0.19

0.19 February 27th 2017

Highlights

Other New Features

Enhancements

Notes

Fixes

Docs

v0.18.1

0.18.1 December 30th 2016

v0.18

0.18.0 December 19th 2016

Highlights

Other New Features

Notices

Fixes

Improvements

Documentation Updates

v0.17

Highlights

New Features

Enhancements

Fixes

Hugo packaged natively for various GNU/Linux distributions

New in 0.17: Available as Snap package

.deb packages for Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

RPM package for Fedora (and Mandriva, openSUSE, etc.)