Changelog History
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v8.0.0.b2 Changes
May 13, 2018π On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v8.0.0b2. This release fixes some bugs found in v8.0.0b1, and adds a few new appearance features (featured posts, alternate navigation links)
π The final version of Nikola v8 should be out in early June. We welcome everyone to test it with their site and report any issues to make it the best release ever.
What is Nikola?
Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python.
π It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown β and can even turn Jupyter Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image galleries, and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds are extremely fast, courtesy of doit (which is rebuilding only what has been changed).Find out more at the website: https://getnikola.com/
Downloads
Install using
pip install Nikola==8.0.0.b2
.π Changes
Important compatibility changes not mentioned previously
- You need
<a class="reference">
(instead ofimage-reference
) to activate the lightbox now
π Features
- Add
NAVIGATION_ALT_LINKS
option, displayed on the right side in bootstrap4/bootblog4 (Issue #3030) - β Added documentation of Post objects to list of template variables (Issue #3003)
- π Support featured posts in bootblog4 (Issue #2964)
- β Add
THEME_CONFIG
setting that themes can use in any way - π Use youtube-nocookie.com for better privacy in
youtube
reST directive and improve the appearance of the player
π Featured post details: https://getnikola.com/handbook.html#featured-posts
π Bugfixes
- π Improve appearance of
bootblog4
on mobile (Issue #3069) - π Make
smartjoin
more flexible (Issue #3080) - π Make post-list and post_list synonymous (Issue #3083)
- Support
CATEGORY_DESTPATH_NAMES
with pages following destpath - Make
CATEGORY_PAGES_FOLLOW_DESTPATH
more resilient (Issue #3081) - Guard against null items in gallery meta files (Issues #3076, #3077)
- Respect
USE_FILENAME_AS_TITLE
in galleries with a meta file - π Fix gallery metadata for multilingual sites (Issue #3078)
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v8.0.0.b1 Changes
May 05, 2018On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v8.0.0b1.
π Nikola v8.0.0b1 (Beta 1) is the first test release of the v8 series. The v8 series adds a ton of new features and fixes bugs, while also breaking backwards compatibility.
What is Nikola?
Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python.
It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup
formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown β and can even turn
π Jupyter (IPython) Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image
π galleries, and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds
are extremely fast, courtesy of doit (which is rebuilding only what
has been changed).Find out more at the website: https://getnikola.com/
Downloads
Install using
pip install Nikola==8.0.0.beta1
.β¬οΈ Before upgrading to Nikola v8, make sure to read the βUpgradingβ document.
π Changes in v8.0.0b1
Important compatibility changes
- π Rename
crumbs.tmpl
toui_helper.tmpl
and the breadcrumbs
bar
function tobreadcrumbs
(your templates may need
changing as well) - Rename
post.is_mathjax
topost.has_math
. Themes using
β‘οΈpost.is_mathjax
must be updated; it is recommended that they are
π changed to usemath_helper.tmpl
. - π Reading reST docinfo metadata, including first heading as title,
requiresUSE_REST_DOCINFO_METADATA
now (Issue #2987) - RSS feeds might have changed their places due to
RSS_PATH
behavior changes (you may need to changeRSS_PATH
,
RSS_FILENAME_BASE
) - π Atom feeds for archives and Atom pagination are no longer supported
(Issue #3016) - Sections are replaced by categories (Issue #2833)
π Features
- π Support hackerthemes.com themes and renamed bootswatch_theme command subtheme (Issue #3049)
- Add
DISABLE_MAIN_ATOM_FEED
setting (Issue #3016, Issue #3039) - Add
ATOM_FILENAME_BASE
setting (defaults toindex
for
existing sites, butfeed
for new sites) (Issue #3016) - Add
CATEGORY_DESTPATH_AS_DEFAULT
,CATEGORY_DESTPATH_TRIM_PREFIX
,
CATEGORY_DESTPATH_FIRST_DIRECTORY_ONLY
settings, as part of
replacing sections with categories (Issue #2833) - π· Tags
draft
,private
andmathjax
are no longer treated
π· special ifUSE_TAG_METADATA
is set toFalse
(default for
π new sites) (Issue #2761) - Replace
draft
andprivate
tags with astatus
meta field
π (supportspublished
,featured
,draft
,private
)
andmathjax
with.. has_math: yes
(Issue #2761) - Rename
TAG_PAGES_TITLES
βTAG_TITLES
,
TAG_PAGES_DESCRIPTIONS
βTAG_DESCRIPTIONS
. - Rename
CATEGORY_PAGES_TITLES
βCATEGORY_TITLES
,
CATEGORY_PAGES_DESCRIPTIONS
βCATEGORY_DESCRIPTIONS
. - π Produce a better error message when a template referenced in another
template is missing (Issue #3055) - π Support captioned images and image ordering in galleries, as well as
π arbitrary metadata through a newmetadata.yml
file (Issue #3017,
Issue #3050, Issue #2837) - π New
ATOM_PATH
setting (Issue #2971) - π Make
crumbs
available to all pages - π Allowing to customize RSS and Atom feed extensions with
RSS_EXTENSION
,ATOM_EXTENSION
settings (Issue #3041) - π Allowing to customize filename base appended to RSS_PATH
withRSS_FILENAME_BASE
setting (Issue #3041) - 0οΈβ£ Use basic ipynb template by default for slightly better appearance
and behavior - π Fixing behavior of RSS_PATH to do what the documentation
says it does (Issue #3024) - β Add support for fragments in path handlers (Issue #3032)
- New
METADATA_VALUE_MAPPING
setting to allow for flexible global
π modification of metadata (Issue #3025) - π New
smartjoin
template function/filter that joins lists and
leaves strings as-is (Issue #3025) - π Explain index.html conflicts better (Issue #3022)
- Recognize both TEASER_END and (new) END_TEASER (Issue #3010)
β (warning: if you perform manual splits, the regex change means new
indexes must be used) - New MARKDOWN_EXTENSION_CONFIGS setting (Issue #2970)
- Replace
flowr.js
withjustified-layout.js
by Flickr
(does not require jQuery!) - 0οΈβ£
bootblog4
is the new default theme (Issue #2964) - π New
bootstrap4
andbootblog4
themes (Issue #2964) - π New Thai translation by Narumol Hankrotha and Jean Jordaan
- π Support for Commento comment system (Issue #2773)
- New PRESERVE_ICC_PROFILES option to control whether ICC profiles are
preserved when copying images. - π Use baguetteBox in Bootstrap theme (part of Issue #2777)
- π New default-config command to generate a clean configuration.
- π New
thumbnail
shortcode similar to the reStructuredText
thumbnail
directive (via Issue #2809) - Rewrite
nikola auto
with asyncio and aiohttp (Issue #2850) - π New
listings
shortcode similar to the reStructuredText listings
directive (Issue #2868) - Switch to reStructuredTextβs new HTML 5 renderer (Issue #2874)
- π Deprecate
html4css1.css
in favor ofrst_base.css
(Issue
#2874) - β Add support for
MetadataExtractor
plugins that allow custom,
π extensible metadata extraction from posts (Issue #2830) - π Support YAML and TOML metadata in 2-file posts (via Issue #2830)
- Renamed
UNSLUGIFY_TITLES
βFILE_METADATA_UNSLUGIFY_TITLES
(Issue #2840) - π Add
NIKOLA_SHOW_TRACEBACKS
environment variable that shows
full tracebacks instead of one-line summaries - 0οΈβ£ Use
PRETTY_URLS
by default on all sites (Issue #1838) - π¨ Feed link generation is completely refactored (Issue #2844)
- Let path handlers return absolute URLs (Issue #2876)
- β Add
BLOG_EMAIL
to global context to make it available for
templates (Issue #2968)
π Bugfixes
- π Fixes behavior for posts not available in default language
(Issues #2956 and #3073) - Always follow
FEED_LENGTH
for Atom feeds - Apply filters to all Atom feeds
- π Read file metadata if compiler metadata exists and prefer it over
π compiler metadata (Issue #3008) - Rename
DISABLE_INDEXES_PLUGIN_INDEX_AND_ATOM_FEED
toDISABLE_INDEXES
andDISABLE_INDEXES_PLUGIN_RSS_FEED
toDISABLE_MAIN_RSS_FEED
(Issue #3039) - π Make chart shortcode its own plugin and make the reST directive
depend on it. - π Put post_list shortcode in its own plugin and make the reST
directive depend on it. - Donβt silence syntax errors and other exceptions that occur while
π reading metadata - π Use documented dateutil API for time zone list (Issue #3006)
- π Handle trailing slash redirects with query strings correctly in
nikola serve
(Issue #3000) - π Fix w3c validation errors for itemscope entries in default themes
- Hide βIncomplete languageβ message for overrides of complete
languages - π Handle '/' and other absolute paths better in POSTS / PAGES / TRANSLATIONS
(Issue #2982) - π Fix loading non-default languages
- π Support KaTeX for reST display math (Issue #2888)
- π Use npm for asset management instead of bower, which was deprecated
(Issue #2790) - Properly handle
SHOW_INDEX_PAGE_NAVIGATION
with Jinja templates
(Issue #2960) - π Prevent crashes due to Windows-specific code in
auto
running on
all platforms (Issue #2940) - Donβt run hyphenate on
<pre>
blocks (Issue #2939) - π Make errors in reST display in logs again
- Unquote paths given to
link://
magic URLs (Issue #2934) - 0οΈβ£ Specify UTF-8 input encoding for Mako as default (Issue #2930)
- Don't trigger rebuilds in auto mode for files it's safe to ignore
(Issue #2906) - π Fix padding for Jupyter code blocks (Issue #2927)
- β± Apply
SCHEDULE_ALL
to posts only (Issue #2921) - βͺ Restore version number to Bootswatch URLs (Issue #2916)
- Do not strip trailing slash in
slug
magic links - π Ignore empty tags in HTML metadata reader (Issue #2890)
- Do not remove doctype if
add_header_permalinks
or
deduplicate_ids
are used - π Handle empty slug metadata (Issue #2887)
- π Fix crash when compiling empty
.html
posts (Issue #2851) - π Make failures to get source commit hash non-fatal in
πgithub_deploy
(Issue #2847) - Less cryptic error when guessing format from extension in
new_post
fails - π Use Jupyter name more consistently in docs
- Support CODE_COLOR_SCHEME in Jupyter notebooks (Issue #2093)
- Language was not passed to title and link generation for page indexes
- β Addressed issue with snaps not allowing certain functions to work properly.
β Removed conf.py settings
π The following settings have been removed. Nikola will now always
behave as if the value was what is displayed afer the setting name.FEED_PREVIEWIMAGE = True
SITEMAP_INCLUDE_FILELESS_DIRS = True
USE_OPEN_GRAPH = True
USE_BASE_TAG = False
β Removed features
- β Removed Colorbox, baguetteBox is used instead (Issue #2777)
- β Removed
googleplus
comments (no longer supported) (Issue #635) - β Removed the slides directive for docutils, it will now be a separate plugin.
- β¬οΈ Dropped Python 2 and Python 3.3 support (oldest supported version is 3.4)
- β Removed
nikola install_theme
β usenikola theme
instead - β¬οΈ Droppped insecure post βencryptionβ feature
- π Stopped supporting all deprecated config options
- β¬οΈ Dropped annotations support (annotateit.org closed down in March 2017)
- Removed taxonomy option
also_create_classifications_from_other_languages
(Issue #2785) andgenerate_atom_feeds_for_post_lists
(Issue
#3016) - β Removed old 7-line metadata format (Issue #2839)
- Atom feeds are now limited to one page (Issue #3016)
- β Removed sections (replaced by improved categories) (Issue #2833)
- π Rename
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v7.8.15 Changes
May 05, 2018π On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.8.15. Nikola v7.8.15 is the last v7 maintenance release with a few more bug fixes.
Install using
pip install Nikola==7.8.15
.π Changes
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v7.8.14 Changes
March 31, 2018π On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.8.14. This is a maintenance release for the v7 series.
π Future releases in the v7 series are going to be small maintenance releases that include bugfixes only, as work on v8.0.0 is underway. If you wish to test new features, you can install from the master branch on GitHub.
What is Nikola?
Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python.
π It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown β and can even turn Jupyter Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image galleries, and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds are extremely fast, courtesy of doit (which is rebuilding only what has been changed).Find out more at the website: https://getnikola.com/
Downloads
π Install using
pip install Nikola
or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI.π Changes
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v7.8.13 Changes
March 20, 2018π On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.8.13. This is a maintenance release for the v7 series.
π Future releases in the v7 series are going to be small maintenance releases that include bugfixes only, as work on v8.0.0 is underway.
What is Nikola?
Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python.
π It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown β and can even turn Jupyter Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image galleries, and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds are extremely fast, courtesy of doit (which is rebuilding only what has been changed).Find out more at the website: https://getnikola.com/
Downloads
π Install using
pip install Nikola
or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI.π Changes
- β Add new Thai translation by Narumol Hankrotha and Jean Jordaan
(v8 backport) - Hide βIncomplete languageβ message for overrides of complete
languages - βͺ Restore ability to override messages partially
- β Add new Thai translation by Narumol Hankrotha and Jean Jordaan