RELEASES

Hugo 0.20

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
  • Improve 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
Last Update: April 18, 2023
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