Version 6.1.1

Just a few bugfixes

• The build_less plugin was broken (Issue #802)
• Every plugin now has its own LOGGER instance, with different names (Issue #797)
• A standardized way of reporting missing requirements (Issue #797)
• Don’t force requests for compile.rest.gist (Issue #795)

Version 6.1.0

Minor feature release

Features

• Added slug support to the magic link:// URLs
• New Esperanto translation.
• New -q flag for quiet running (Issue #762)
• Added author field in RSS items (Issue #767)
• Annotations using annotateit.org (Issue #623)
• New GALLERY_SORT_BY_DATE option, defaulting to True.
  If set to False, sorts by name (Issue #667)

Bugfixes

• Fixed compatibility with Windows’ multiple partitions (Issues #776, #784)
• Added language in the RSS feeds (Issue #777)
• Don't fail for empty bundles.
• Fix USE_BUNDLES compatibility with Python 3 (Issue #760)
• Compatibility with doit 0.23.0 (Issues #756 #758)
• Install enough of the theme chain to ensure themes are usable (Issue #748)
• Support Gist URLs in the gist directive for compatibility with sphinx-gist-embed (Issue #754)
• windows, dev - fix point pth to clone and run nikola without install (Issue #751)
• windows - fix install from clone or from a Github download (Issue #747, Windows)
• Make Listings directive inherit Include making it simpler and more powerful (Issue #744)
• Install builtin themes (Issue #741)
• LOGGER was incorrectly imported in planetoid.py
• Order Monthly Archive properly, descending order (Issue #740)

Version 6.0.4 (bugfixes)

Bugfixes

• Added missing metadata in internals.txt and extending.txt (Issue #738)
• Fix addthis sizing with bootstrap3 theme (Issue #731)
• Refuse to install in unsupported Python versions (Issue #733)
• Fix sitemap plugin compatibility with Python 3 (Issue #734)
• Changed default PyGal style (Issue #726)
• Add files used by the listings directive as dependencies (Issue #723)
• Localsearch task now depends on all pages, for better accuracy.
• More robust directory creation (Issue #208)
• Proper logging (Issues #712 #704)
• Be less agressive in hyphenating, also, split words differently. (Issue #718)
• Fixed several blogger import issues.
• Avoid double slashes in RSS link elements (Issue #716)
• Fix Python 3 incompatibility (Issue #715)
• Consider the current theme chain's parent, bundles and engine part of the file_dep for
  files created by generic_page_renderer (Issue #711)

Nikola 6.0.3

Mostly bugfixes, The --strict option is not useful yet.

Features

• New --strict option for build command, makes warnings abort the build (Issue #704)
  Still doesn't really affect behaviour, because each warning needs to check it.

Bugfixes

• Use correct pandoc argument order (Issue #709)
• Invalid POSTS and PAGES were created by the wordpress importer.
• Normalize paths in task targets, helping detect conflicts (Issue #546)
• Strip multiple digits in unslugify, used by image galleries (Issue #703)
• Added missing defaults and make Nikola work with empty conf.py (Issue #697)
• Add thumbnails as file dependencies of gallery indexes (Issue #551)
• Copy original image as thumbnail if PIL fails to resize it (Issue #551)
• Apply filters to files generated by the gallery tasks (Issue #708)
• More robust handling of filter commands' shell quoting (Issue #705)

Bugfix release

Minor fixes and one small feature:

Features

• Support for external gzip commands (Issue #351)

Bugfixes

• More meaningful error if conf.py is invalid (Issue #680)
• Made compatible with Docutils<0.9 again (Issue #679)
• Make footnote-references keep line height in rst.css
• Make bootswatch_theme work under Python 3 (Issue #695)

6.0.1

Features

• New Russian translation
• Made private an alternate spelling of the retired tag (via Issue
  #686)

Bugfixes

• Remove decoding errors if files are not proper UTF-8 (Issue #691)
• Stop ignoring *.JPG and *.PNG by galleries (Issue #690)

Version 6.0.0

This is a major feature release. If you have an existing site, you will get a number of warnings about deprecated options. Don't worry, things most likely will still work, and you can take your time fixing them.

Some of the new features are described in a series of blog posts: 1 2 3 4 5

Here is the (probably incomplete) changelog:

Features

• Deprecated post_compilers for COMPILERS (Issue #601)
• Replaced post_pages option with POSTS and PAGES (Issue #601)
• Support for bootswatch in boostrap 2 and 3 (Issue #599)
• New ADDITIONAL_METADATA option to set extra metadata on all posts.
• All reStructuredText extensions are now plugins (Issue #621)
• New multiple comment system support (Issue #606, #634)
  • Deprecated DISQUS_FORUM option for COMMENT_SYSTEM_ID
  • New COMMENT_SYSTEM option to change comment systems, defaults to disqus
• New bootstrap3 theme (by areski)
• Added docs/upgrading-to-v6.txt for upgrade tips.
• Theme cleanup (Issue #599)
• Support for nested navigation links (Issue #104)
• New media directive for reStructuredText (Issue #608)
• New DEPLOY_DRAFTS and DEPLOY_FUTURE options (Issue #583)
• New Dutch translation
• Optional hyphenation (HYPHENATE option, Issue #576)
• Made AddThis support replaceable through new SOCIAL_BUTTONS_CODE option.
• categories
• Added a FUTURE_IS_NOW option for publishing future-dated posts now (Issues #486, #577)
• New typogrify filter (Issue #576)
• New COPY_SOURCES option, defaults to True (Issue #544)
• Customizable Read More (Issues #412, #533, #574)
• Support for LESS/RECESS CSS compilers
• Updated to Colorbox 1.4.27
• New pandoc compiler.
• Separate slides.tmpl template so that non-bootstrap themes can support them.
• New ADDITIONAL_METADATA option to specify metadata to include in the new_post
  command, alongside with the defaults (Issue #622)
• Schedule new posts automatically by specifying an iCal recursive rule as
  SCHEDULE_RULE (Issue #602)

Bugfixes

• Added missing rel="self" link suggested by feedvalidator.org (Issue #264)
• Switched to semantic versioning (Issue #614)
• Better figure styling (Issue #626)
• Switched docutils math rendering to MathJax (Issue #620)
• Refactored crumb bar into a separate tmpl to avoid code duplication (Issue #612)
• Fix broken config dep for tags when NAVIGATION_LINKS is not set (Issue #610)
• Fixed bundles in base theme
• Deprecated ANALYTICS, replaced with BODY_END (Issue #601)
• Deprecated SIDEBAR_LINKS, replaced with NAVIGATION_LINKS (Issue #104 #601)
• Solve site theme's navbar overlapping Issues (Issue #585)
• Deprecated ADD_THIS_BUTTONS option.
• Show warning if unable to thumbnail an image (Issue #551)
• Use absolute URLs in feeds (Issue #590)
• Fix for mincss path munging (Issues #570 #589)
• Added missing dependency in gallery indexes (Issue #536)
• Anchors in listings had wrong filename slugs
• Only warn about incomplete translations once (Issue #580)
• Right-align image title in colorbox to avoid overlapping so much (Mentioned in Issue #570)
• Added LICENSE in the footer (Issue #528)
• Use random IDs for slides so you can have more than one in a page (Issue #572)

First beta 6.0.0 release

Hopefully first and only beta. I make this release mostly so those with custom themes have a chance to try to adapt to the changes and then we can document or fix things.

Here is the (as usual probably not complete) list of changes:

Features

• Support for bootswatch in boostrap 2 and 3 (Issue #599)
• New ADDITIONAL_METADATA option to set extra metadata on all posts.
• All reStructuredText extensions are now plugins (Issue #621)
• New multiple comment system support (Issue #606, #634)
  • Deprecated DISQUS_FORUM option for COMMENT_SYSTEM_ID
  • New COMMENT_SYSTEM option to change comment systems, defaults to disqus
• New bootstrap3 theme (by areski)
• Added docs/upgrading-to-v6.txt for upgrade tips.
• Theme cleanup (Issue #599)
• Support for nested navigation links (Issue #104)
• New media directive for reStructuredText (Issue #608)
• New DEPLOY_DRAFTS and DEPLOY_FUTURE options (Issue #583)
• New Dutch translation
• Optional hyphenation (HYPHENATE option, Issue #576)
• Made AddThis support replaceable through new SOCIAL_BUTTONS_CODE option.
• categories
• Added a FUTURE_IS_NOW option for publishing future-dated posts now (Issues #486, #577)
• New typogrify filter (Issue #576)
• New COPY_SOURCES option, defaults to True (Issue #544)
• Customizable Read More (Issues #412, #533, #574)
• Support for LESS/RECESS CSS compilers
• Updated to Colorbox 1.4.27
• New pandoc compiler.
• Separate slides.tmpl template so that non-bootstrap themes can support them.
• New ADDITIONAL_METADATA option to specify metadata to include in the new_post
  command, alongside with the defaults (Issue #622)
• Schedule new posts automatically by specifying an iCal recursive rule as
  SCHEDULE_RULE (Issue #602)

Bugfixes

• Switched to semantic versioning (Issue #614)
• Better figure styling (Issue #626)
• Switched docutils math rendering to MathJax (Issue #620)
• Refactored crumb bar into a separate tmpl to avoid code duplication (Issue #612)
• Fix broken config dep for tags when NAVIGATION_LINKS is not set (Issue #610)
• Fixed bundles in base theme
• Deprecated ANALYTICS, replaced with BODY_END (Issue #601)
• Deprecated SIDEBAR_LINKS, replaced with NAVIGATION_LINKS (Issue #104 #601)
• Solve site theme's navbar overlapping Issues (Issue #585)
• Deprecated ADD_THIS_BUTTONS option.
• Show warning if unable to thumbnail an image (Issue #551)
• Use absolute URLs in feeds (Issue #590)
• Fix for mincss path munging (Issues #570 #589)
• Added missing dependency in gallery indexes (Issue #536)
• Anchors in listings had wrong filename slugs
• Only warn about incomplete translations once (Issue #580)
• Right-align image title in colorbox to avoid overlapping so much (Mentioned in Issue #570)
• Added LICENSE in the footer (Issue #528)
• Use random IDs for slides so you can have more than one in a page (Issue #572)

Version 5.5.1

New in this release:

Features

• New FEED_LENGTH option, defaults to 10 (Issue #549)
• Added no-cache headers to nikola serve (Issue #545)
• New mincss command, removes unused and redundant CSS (Issue #364)
• New chart directive based on pygal
• Update of IPython plugin to work with the upcoming IPython 1.0

Bugfixes

• Remove cache/ when running nikola clean (Issue #558)
• Mark bundles as "cleanable" (Issue #558)
• Made nikola help much more resilient against broken conf.py (Issue #550)
• Show docinfo part of docutils output (Issue #556)
• Exit with error code when there is an error (Issue #543)
• Revamped requirements.txt — now requirements.txt contains the
  required dependencies and requirements-full.txt contains the
  optional ones (Issue #547)
• Fixed bug in example usage of install_theme.
• Better help text for bootswatch command.
• Fixed installation under pip 1.4 or later (pytz and yapsy versions must be
  hardcoded due to crazy versioning schemes)
• Added .rst to the default reStructuredText extensions (via Issue #542)
• Moved the sample site to the new one-file format (Issue #542)
• Escape HTML in titles (Issue #537)
• Fixed issues with index pages indices (Issue #532)
• Fixed IPython plugin to work with the latest IPython.nbconvert machinery
• Fixed failing build because of hidden folders and files inside post folder

Version 5.5

Features

• New HIDE_SOURCELINK option (defaults to False)
• Switched theme repo to http://themes.nikola.ralsina.com.ar (Issue #411)
• New (untested) ASCIIDoc compiler
• Display very annoying warning when deploying the nikolademo Disqus account
• New Bulgarian translation
• New man page (created with help2man nikola -N --version-string=5.5) (Issue #460)
• Added "nikola version" command (Issue #504)
• Added more search form examples in conf.py.in (Issue #515)
• Template dependency support for Jinja (by koniiiik, Issue #511)
• New --clean-files option for nikola check
• Support --version on "run" command (Issue #504)
• New Turkish translation.
• New MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS option, defaults to previopus behaviour (Issue #496)
• Posts with dates in the future will be treated as drafts (Implemented by punchagan)
• New "TaskMultiplier" plugin category, takes a task, returns 0 or more new tasks (Issue #483)
• New 'LINK_CHECK_WHITELIST' option for link checker (Issue #477)
• New Croatian translation.
• Jinja-default and jinja-site themes now automatically generated from the Mako versions.
• New Persian translation
• RSS feed now includes post tags (Issue #462)
• Experimental generic RSS/Atom importer (Issue #347)
• PHP support (Issue #313)
• New PRETTY_URLS option (generates slug/index.html instead of slug.html) (Issue #429)
• Added "templates/" folder to template path.
• Keyword metadata support in post pages (Issue #451)

Bugfixes

• Improve custom.css detection (Issue #526)
• Fixed bad interaction between 2-file-format and untranslated posts in multilingual sites (Issue #525)
• Workaround in site theme for navbar hiding targets
• Flip index pages order (Issue #521)
• Make txt2tags work again (Issue #520)
• Updated to latest colorbox
• Skip metadata when compiling one-file posts (Issue #508)
• Use schema-relative URL for addthis to avoid insecure page warnings on HTTPS sites (Issue #510)
• Made the gzip plugin generate less confusing task names (no more double colon)
• Made "nikola check -f" respect OUTPUT_DIR
• Customizable teasers were broken (Issue #502)
• Be less invasive when processing rendered HTML (Issue #500)
• Run all tasks that should run (Issue #494, #493)
• Handle timezones in posterous imports (Issue #475)
• Actually ensure LateTasks are run later than Tasks
• Don't add drafts and retired posts to the sitemap (Issue #476)
• Avoid future in setup.py because it breaks buildout (Issue #478)
• Use correct source links with PRETTY_URL=True (Issue #474)
• Handle non-ascii path in bundles (Issue #473)
• Handle non-ascii path in plugin loader (Issue #471)
• Handle non-ascii arguments in main (Issue #470)
• Make sitemap depend on file dates (reported by Kay Hayen)
• Better support for non-ascii urlencoded paths in the wp importer (Issue #468)
• Avoid crashing if user does a deploy with no commands
• Strip HTML and BODY tags in Post.text() (Issue #464)
• -f option broken in HTML compiler (Issue #463)
• Don't map empty folders, map folders with index.html, and don't map index.html (Issue #430)
• Wordpress import: write correct redirections for URLs not ending in an / (Issue #459)