Hugo 0.22

Hugo 0.22 brings nested sections, by popular demand and a long sought after feature (#465). We are still low on documentation for this great feature, but @bep has been kind enough to accompany his implementation with a demo site.

This release represents 58 contributions by 10 contributors to the main Hugo code base. Since last release Hugo has gained 420 stars and 2 additional themes.

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

Hugo now has:

• 17576+ stars
• 455+ contributors
• 165+ themes

Other Highlights

.Site.GetPage can now also be used to get regular pages (#2844):

{{ (.Site.GetPage "page" "blog" "mypost.md" ).Title }}

Also, considerable work has been put into writing automated benchmark tests for the site builds, and we're happy to report that although this release comes with fundamental structural changes, this version is – in general – even faster than the previous. It’s quite a challenge to consistently add significant new functionality and simultaneously maintain the stellar performance Hugo is famous for.

Notes

.Site.Sections is replaced. We have reworked how sections work in Hugo, they can now be nested and are no longer taxonomies. If you use the old collection, you should get detailed upgrade instructions in the log when you run hugo. For more information, see this demo site.

Enhancements

Templates

• Add uint support to In b82cd82f @moorereason
• Support interfaces in union 204c3a9e @moorereason #3411
• Add uniq function e28d9aa4 @adiabatic
• Handle template.HTML and friends in ToInt 4113693a @moorereason #3308

Core

• Make the RSS feed use the date for the node it represents f1da5a15 @bep #2708
• Enable nested sections b3968939 @bep #465
• Add test for "no 404" in sitemap 8aaec644 @bep #3563
• Support regular pages in .Site.GetPage e0c2e798 @bep #2844 #3082

Performance

• Add site building benchmarks 8930e259 @bep #3535
• Add a cache to GetPage which makes it much faster 50d11138 @bep
• Speed up GetPage fbb78b89 @bep #3503
• Add BenchmarkFrontmatterTags 3d9c4f51 @bep #3464
• Add benchSite.sh to make it easy to run Hugo performance benchmarks d74452cf @bep
• Cache language config 4aff2b6e @bep
• Temporarily revert to BurntSushi for TOML front matter handling; it is currently much faster 0907a5c1 @bep #3541 #3464
• Add a simple partitioned lazy cache 87203139 @bep

Other

• Add noindex tag to HTML generated by Hugo aliases d5ab7f08 @onedrawingperday
• Update Go versions bde807bd @bep
• Remove the rlimit tweaking on macOS bcd32f10 @bep #3512

Docs

• Rewrite “Archetypes” article @davidturnbull #3543
• Remove Unmaintained Frontends from Tools. f41f7282 @onedrawingperday

Fixes

Core

• Improve live-reload on directory structure changes making removal of directories or pasting new content directories into  /content just work fe901b81 @bep #3570
• Respect disableKinds=["sitemap"] 69d92dc4 @bep #3544
• Fix disablePathToLower regression 5be04486 @bep #3374
• Fix ref/relref issue with duplicate base filenames 612f6e3a @bep #2507

Docs

• Fix parameter name in YouTube shortcode section 37e37877 @zivbk1