Hugo v0.164.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2026-07-06 // 2 months ago-
🚀 Notable new features in this release are:
- The Chroma highlighter styles now introduces dark/light pairs. See also the new flags on the hugo gen chromastyles command.
- 🆕 New template funcs encoding.HexEncode, encoding.HexDecode, and crypto.Hash.
- 🆕 New markup.rst.syntaxHighlight option.
- 👍 We added Pandoc citation support.
- We now spport sub paths in layouts passed to Page.Render.
- 🚀 This release also fixes a performance regression introduced in Hugo v0.128.0. This should mostly be prominent in bigger sites. See this discussion for some background.
Notes
🔄 Changes
- ✅ all: Rewrite deprecated constructs in tests 5a5f4a5 @bep
- 👍 tpl/tplimpl: Support sub paths in layouts passed to .Render d83ce27 @bep #15056
- ➕ Add markup.rst.syntaxHighlight option c6acc24 @bep #5349
- 🗄 tpl/resources: Deprecate resources.PostProcess in favour of templates.Defer 29ed932 @bep #15086
- ⚠ tpl/collections: Include key in IsSet unsupported-type warning 671897a @bejaratommy #11794
- 🏗 create: Keep new content placeholders buildable 499794d @sjh9714 #15078
- hugio: Speedup hasBytesWriter 65c8217 @bep
- tpl/crypto: Add crypto.Hash dfb35dc @bep #15072
- ➕ Add encoding.HexDecode/Encode a5ec542 @bep #15068 #15060
- tpl/tplimpl: Make template name lookup case-insensitive e46d37a @jmooring #15057
- hugolib: Return error from .Render when template not found fe06735 @jmooring #15052
- 👍 markup/pandoc: Add citation support 128fb17 @jmooring #15062
⚡️ Dependency Updates
- 🏗 build(deps): bump github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown/v2 921db7b @dependabot[bot]
- 🏗 build(deps): bump golang.org/x/tools from 0.45.0 to 0.47.0 786ce71 @dependabot[bot]
- 🏗 build(deps): bump golang.org/x/image from 0.42.0 to 0.43.0 5ad2846 @dependabot[bot]
- 🏗 build(deps): bump golang.org/x/net from 0.55.0 to 0.56.0 36ad9f5 @dependabot[bot]
- 🏗 build(deps): bump github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2 from 2.4.2 to 2.4.3 7c0a0bc @dependabot[bot]
- 🏗 build(deps): bump github.com/getkin/kin-openapi from 0.139.0 to 0.140.0 a879ebf @dependabot[bot]
- 🏗 build(deps): bump golang.org/x/mod from 0.36.0 to 0.37.0 332d5ec @dependabot[bot]
- 🏗 build(deps): bump github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2 from 2.3.1 to 2.4.2 212cc11 @dependabot[bot]
- ⬆️ deps: Upgrade github.com/evanw/esbuild v0.28.0 => v0.28.1 884439b @bep #15033
- 👍 deps: Add Chroma dark/light mode support 790a8aa @bep #15017
Previous changes from v0.163.3
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What's Changed
- 0️⃣ markup/highlight: Escape lang in default code block rendering ce1a7e0 @bep thanks to @k0ngj1 for reporting this issue.
- 📜 parser/pageparser: Preserve non-ASCII whitespace after e.g. summary divider 70a9068 @bep
- 👍 resources: Support babel/postcss config variants 9d66d51 @jmooring #15039 #15040 #15043
- hugolib: Fix page/section name collision regression f013346 @jmooring #15046