v7.7.8

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.8. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.

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 — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) 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 or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI.

Changes

Features

• Template-based shortcodes now receive positional arguments too (Issue #2319)

Bugfixes

• Use state files in nikola github_deploy and nikola status
  (Issue #2317)
• Add align options for youtube, vimeo, soundcloud
  reST directives (Issue #2304)
• Update FILE_METADATA_REGEXP example in docs (Issue #2296)
• Show “tags too similar” error instead of cryptic doit crash (Issue #2325)
• Fix crashes when tag appears multiple times in a post (Issue #2315)
• Use binary I/O for .svg files in galleries
• Accept .svgz extension by default
• Don't randomly load plugins when Nikola is called with no arguments (Issue #2297)

v7.7.7

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.7. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.

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 — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) 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 or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI.

Changes

Features

• New --one-file option to wordpress importer (Issue #2262)
• New Pygal-based chart shortcode (Issue #2170)
• Add post_type to post-list directive (Issue #2272)
• Use sys.executable for launching pip in plugin (Issue #2275)

Bugfixes

• Fix Indonesian translation (Issue #2291)
• Fix a JSON conversion bug in the WordPress importer (Issue #2264)
• Don’t create download directories when not downloading WordPress
  attachments (Issue #2260)
• Don’t display "Good link" messages in nikola check -l by default,
  can be re-enabled with -v option (Issue #2268)
• Fix a format string in nikola check (Issue #2267)
• Don't crash wordpress importer when posts are "empty" (Issue #2263)
• Don't put untranslated and nonexistant posts in sitemap (Issue #2289)

v7.7.6: Version 7.5.6

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.6. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.

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 — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) 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/

This is a bugfix release, fixing a critical error in version 7.7.5's support for IPython/Jupyter notebooks.
If you had upgraded Nikola to version 7.7.5 and suddenly got errors or empty pages for your notebooks,
upgrade to 7.7.6 and run nikola build -a to get everything in order.

Really sorry!

Downloads

Install using pip install Nikola or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI.

Changes

Features

• Add FRONT_INDEX_HEADER setting to allow adding greeting notices
  to the main index page (Issue #2249)

Bugfixes

• Make Jupyter posts build (Issues #2248, #2252)

v7.7.5

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.5. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.

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 — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) 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 or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI.

Changes

Features

• Add nikola theme --new command for creating new themes (Issue #2231)
• Add nikola theme --copy-template command for copying templates
  to customize them (Issue #2231)
• Add nikola theme --uninstall command for deleting themes (Issue #2231)
• Replace nikola install_theme with more capable nikola theme
  command (Issue #2231)
• Allow for customizing github_deploy commit messages with -m
  (Issue #2198)
• Commit to source branch automatically in github_deploy
  if GITHUB_COMMIT_SOURCE is set to True (Issue #2186)
• Hugo-like shortcodes (Issue #1707)
• New Galician translation
• New facilities for data persistence and data caching (Issues #2209 and #2009)
• (internal) allow scripts/jinjify.py usage with scripts (Issue #2240)

Bugfixes

• Fix some rebuilds with indexes and galleries
• Make state files work on Python 3
• Don’t attempt to create redirects for URLs with query strings in
  WordPress imports if the site is in a subdirectory (Issue #2224)
• Avoid some random file rebuilds (Issue #2220)
• Honor MATHJAX_CONFIG setting
• Display tags and archives in a unified format, with the date on the
  left, instead of a misplaced dash in tags (Issue #2212)
• Decide is_mathjax based on current language tags (Issue #2205)
• Don't duplicate images in flowr when resizing page (Issue #2202)

v7.7.4

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.4. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.

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 — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) 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 or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI.

Changes

Features

• Added cache for Jinja templates (Issue #2166)
• Use Jupyter instead of IPython shims (Issue #1938)
• Automatically open gallery images colorbox based on URL fragment (Issue #2146)

Bugfixes

• Fix enclosures from metadata (Issue #2189)
• Restored log level to INFO (it broke many messages)
• Check HTTP response status of minifying tools and skip them if they’re unavailable
• Change rewrite rule for fragment-only links (Issue #2132)
• Mention disabled plugins in nikola plugin --list-installed (Issue #2139)
• Don't examine all gallery image dates every build (Issue #2160)

v7.7.3

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.3. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.

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 — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) 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 or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI.

Changes

Features

• Recommend ghp-import2 (better packaging) (Issue #2152)
• New TAGS_INDEX_PATH option for overwriting the path
  of the tag index list page.
• Support for ~~strikethrough~~ in Markdown (Issue #2149)
• Hungarian translation (by Baptiste Darthenay)
• serve and auto publishes DNS Service Discovery records
  to the local network announcing they’re running web servers.

Bugfixes

• Implement translating DATE_FORMAT properly
• Remove superfluous translatability for a boolean (Issue #2140)
• Pass messages to post-list template (Issue #2156)
• Changed default log level from INFO to NOTICE (nikola check is less chatty)
• Fix support for panorama images in gallery(Issue #2143)
• Support "maps.world.World" and similar charts in Pygal (Issue #2142)
• Capitalize "UTF-8" properly in locale guessing (Issue #2137)

v7.7.2

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.2. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.

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 — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) 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 or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI.

Changes

Features

• Warning about Python 2.7 deprecation (Issues #2121, #2122)
• New jsonminify filter for minifying JSON files.
• New xmlminify filter for minifying XML files.
• New option FEED_PREVIEWIMAGE includes the post.meta.previewimage
  image in Atom and RSS feeds. (Issue #2095)

Bugfixes

• Support Pillow v3.0.0 (Issue #2130)
• Support setting template in metadata in translated posts (Issue #2114)
• Fix false orphan report for code.css and robots.txt (Issue #2106)
• Fix reST post list date formatting error (Issue #2104)
• Deprecated RSS_TEASERS, RSS_PLAIN, RSS_READ_MORE_LINK, and
  RSS_LINKS_APPEND_QUERY in favor of FEED_TEASERS, FEED_PLAIN,
  FEED_READ_MORE_LINK, and FEED_LINKS_APPEND_QUERY for both Atom
  and RSS feeds. (Issue #2095)
• /robots.txt was never being built (Issue #2098)
• SVG thumbnails (Issue #2094)

Deprecations

• Post.section_link is now deprecated (Issue #2086). Use
  site.link('section_index', post.section_slug()) instead.

v7.7.1

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.1. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.

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 — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) 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/

About This Release

This release focused in fixing bugs. We fixed so many, we have now fewer than 10 bugs open!

Also, we added a new tutorial to the website, about
creating heavily customized pages
check it out, the end result is pretty cool!

Downloads

Install using pip install Nikola or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI.

Changes

Features

• Better Template / JS / CSS demo in sample site.
• New normalize_html filter
• Support UTF-8 paths and encoded links when the USE_SLUGIFY option
  is disabled. (Issue #2037)
• Per-document hyphenation using "hyphenate" metadata flag.
• New option USE_KATEX to switch from MathJax to KaTeX (Experimental).
• Support SVG in galleries (Issue #1605)
• Made TAG_PATH translatable (Issue #1914)
• Made CATEGORY_PATH translatable (Issue #1914)
• Display post counts for archive links (Issue #2011)
• Document link/path handlers (Issue #2008)
• Made DATE_FORMAT and JS_DATE_FORMAT translatable (Issue #2032)

Bugfixes

• Generate language-specific section links (Issue #2069)
• Rebuild pages when user changes POST_SECTION_COLORS (Issue #2066)
• Look for bundle assets also in output/, allowing bundling of files
  created by plugins (Issue #1370)
• In listings, if lexer is not specified, use literal (Issue #2078)
• Remove bogus ambiguity on listing links (Issue #2080)
• Unix-slash caused conflict in Windows (Issue #2079)
• Locale is now threadsafe, avoid races in threaded builds (Issue #2071)
• Make typogrify filter work when applied from metadata (Issue #2064)
• Handle metadata in post files that start with a BOM (Issue #2059)
• Handle error downloading bootswatches (Issue #2054)
• Monitor plugins/ in nikola auto (Issue #2044)
• Multi-lingual and multi-level directories confused section slug
  detection (Issue #2023)
• Use Unicode strings for WordPress comment headers (Issue #2019)
• Don't add stories to author pages (Issue #2007)

v7.7.0

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.0. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.

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 — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) 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/

Key Changes since v7.6.4

• Sections by Daniel Aleksandersen
• Author pages by Juanjo Conti

Downloads

Install using pip install Nikola or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI.

Changes

Features

• New support for online CSS and JS minifying services (Issue #1999)
• Make tag optional with USE_BASE_TAG flag (Issue #1985)
• Render author pages (Issue #1972)
• Atom feeds for tag lists (Issue #1686)
• New THEME_COLOR option for customizing themes from a primary color
  (Issue #1980)
• New color_hsl_adjust_hex and colorize_str_from_base_color
  functions available in themes (Issue #1980)
• New POSTS output subfolders now generate sections by deault
  (Issue #1980)
• New POSTS_SECTIONS and POSTS_SECTION_* options for
  configuring the section pages (Issue #1980)
• For themers: Each post are now asssociated with section_color,
  section_link, and section_name (Issue #1980)
• Each new section page has a auto-assigned color based on shifting
  the hue of THEME_COLOR based on a hash of the section name,
  can be overwritten with POSTS_SECTION_COLORS option (Issue #1980)
• New TAG_PAGES_TITLES and CATEGORY_PAGES_TITLES options
  (Issue #1962)
• Add Bosnian and Serbian (Latin) languages, by Saša Savić [bs, sr_latin]
• Add Portuguese (Portugal) language, by jamatos [pt]

Bugfixes

• Make nikola tabcompletion work outside sites (Issue #1983)
• Fix display of categories list in bootstrap theme (Issue #2002)
• If webassets is not installed, use unbundled assets (Issue #1992)
• Check links in Atom and sitemap files (Issue #1993)
• Link checker should check all absolute URLs to self (Issue #1991)
• Check img|source[@srcset] as part of check -l (Issue #1989)
• Clean up translations for third party components
• pagekind["main_index"] set on the main indexes to differentiate
  them from all the other indexes.
• Add dependency on metadata file for 2-file posts (Issue #1968)
• Set UTF-8 charset in Content-Type or text/* and *+xml (Issue #1966)

v7.6.4

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.6.4. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.

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 — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) 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 or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI.

Changes

Features

• Checking remote links also checks redirects (nikola check -lr)
• Update suggested license to its latest version (Issue #1950)
• Add Punjabi language, by Jasdeep Singh (Issue #1940)
• New option to use custom, and several TEASER_END values

Bugfixes

• Rewrite srcset links (Issue #1939)
• Add dependencies for include tag in Mako (Issue #1956)
• Don’t duplicate BLOG_TITLE in the front page title (Issue #1952)
• Escape instad of strip HTML in titles (Issue #1952)
• Make LINK_CHECK_WHITELIST apply to remote link checks
• Make STORY_INDEX work together with PRETTY_URLS (Issue #1949)
• Refactor new_post to match lazy plugin loading (Issue #1943)
• Make Nikola startup faster by not loading useless plugins (Issue #1825)
• Ignore sliced multibyte characters when reading metadata for sitemaps
• Fix NameError caused by failed import in auto plugin.