Pelican v4.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-11-13 // over 5 years ago
    • Replace develop_server.sh script with pelican --listen
    • 👌 Improved copy/link behavior for large static files (e.g., videos)
    • 🆕 New {static} syntax to link to static content; content linked to by
      {static} and {attach} is automatically copied over even if not in
      STATIC_PATHS
    • Pages can now have draft status
    • 🖨 Show current settings via new --print-settings flag
    • New signals: feed_generated and page_generated_write_page
    • Replace Fabric with Invoke and fabfile.py template with tasks.py
    • 🌐 New ARTICLE_TRANSLATION_ID and PAGE_TRANSLATION_ID settings to
      📇 specify metadata attributes used to identify/disable translations
    • 📇 HTML reader now parses multiple occurrences of metadata tags as a list
    • 🆕 New Blogger XML backup importer
    • ⚡️ Wordpress importer now updates file links to point to local copies if the
      files were downloaded with --wp-attach.
    • 🛠 Many bug fixes, tweaks, and other enhancements