All notable changes to Congo will be documented in this file. Things that need particular attention when upgrading from a prior version are marked
The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
- Umami Analytics support (#832)
- Theme parameter to set a default HTML theme colour (#849)
- New icon for
bluesky
(#851) - Support for article sharing to Threads (#869)
- Upgrade to Typography v0.5.13 (#864)
- Featured images overlap page title when article metadata hidden (#827)
- Inconsistent picture rendering between
figure
shortcode and Markdown render hook (#828) - Animated GIF files are static when
enableImageWebp
is enabled (#866) - Next article pagination link animation is inverted (#870)
2.8.2 - 2024-04-17
- Upgrade to KaTeX v0.16.10 (#839)
- Upgrade to Typography v0.5.12 (#841, #860)
- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.4.3 (#843)
- Background color inconsistent on mobile when dark mode enabled (#796)
2.8.1 - 2024-03-09
- Table of Contents missing left border detail (#794)
x-twitter
option missing when using sharing links (#809)- Chinese default config contains incorrect
author
block name (#807) - Links in articles are prefixed with a blank space (#813)
- HTML tables would not fill the container width on desktop (#826)
2.8.0 - 2024-01-22
- Quicklink support (#646)
- Automatic support for WebP images (#693)
- Warning when building if links to Markdown files cannot be resolved (#691)
- Ability to share articles to Telegram and Line (#719)
- New icons for
line
,google-scholar
,mendeley
andweibo
(#719, #755, #756) - Weibo sharing links (#756)
- Support for Tailwind '950' colour variants (#751)
- Table of contents will now scroll if taller than the browser height (#733)
- External URL article stubs now auto-redirect if leaf pages are generated (#778)
- Korean translation (#731)
- Chinese translation of Example site and Docs (#776)
⚠️ Hugo extended version is now required when building sites⚠️ Author params block in language configuration has been moved toparams.author
(#704)- Refactored image logic into a new
picture.html
partial (#693) - Upgrade to ChartJS v4.4.1 (#736)
- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.4.1 (#737, #752, #759, #774)
- Upgrade to Mermaid v10.7.0 (#782)
- Updated Japanese translation (#750)
- Hamburger menu is not dismissed when links are clicked (#705)
- KaTeX, table and code elements wider than the page are not formatted correctly (#753)
- 'ß' character is output at the top of articles (#764)
- Article metadata element is output when there is no metadata to display (#786)
- Header elements not vertically centered when using locale switcher (#788)
- Fathom Analytics custom domain parameter, as this is no longer supported by Fathom
2.7.6 - 2023-11-26
- Some Mermaid diagram elements not styled correctly in dark mode (#706)
2.7.5 - 2023-11-25
- Some files have unnecessary execute permissions (#714)
- Empty block is output when locale switcher is hidden (#699)
2.7.4 - 2023-11-05
- Links with non-whitespace characters preceeding them are prefixed with a space (#695)
2.7.3 - 2023-10-31
- Article metadata HTML is output as text when using Hugo v0.120.0 (#689)
2.7.2 - 2023-10-26
- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.3.5 (#681, #686)
- Upgrade to Mermaid v10.6.0 (#684)
- Upgrade to FuseJS v7.0.0 (#685)
- Empty block is output when locale switcher is hidden (#678)
- Extra whitespace added after links (#679)
2.7.1 - 2023-10-24
- Minor refactor to improve memory efficiency in search results (#650)
- Links in Markdown content are now portable (#655)
- JavaScript error setting theme colour when site is loaded in dark mode (#676)
2.7.0 - 2023-10-23
- New portable locale picker that can be placed in any menu using the
locale
action (#583) - New icons for
chevron-down
,chevron-up
,globe
,translate
,coffee
andx-twitter
(#669) - Plausible Analytics support (#584)
- Spanish translation of example site samples (#606)
- Japanese translation of docs and example site (#618)
- German translation of example site (#631)
⚠️ Renamed theparams.rtl
language parameter tolanguageDirection
as this is now supported by Hugo (#583)- Robots.txt file now allows all by default without concern for whether the environment is set to production (#620)
- Refactored the
head.html
partial to improve perceived performance on page load - Upgrade to Mermaid v10.5.1 (#577, #582, #626, #638, #663, #674)
- Upgrade to KaTeX v0.16.9 (#590, #664)
- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.3.3 (#602)
- Upgrade to ChartJS v4.3.3 (#616, #627, #635)
- Upgrade to Typography v0.5.10 (#641)
- Prominent images in content and site layout are lazy loaded (#591)
- TypeError is output to console when viewing leaf pages (#596)
- URL to Congo project in footer used deprecated git.io short link (#605)
- Various typos in the docs and example site (#608, #609, #613)
- Incorrect
render
value is used in the 'external' archetype (#630) - Images are missing
width
andheight
attributes (#645) - Extended head partial does not include page context (#658)
- Taxonomy tags aren't padded when wrapping onto a new line (#671)
- Minor CSS improvements, mainly relating to RTL styling
- Minor typos
- Locales no longer appear next to the site name/logo as they are now part of the menu system (#583)
- Language parameters
isoCode
anddisplayName
are no longer supported (#583) - Meta
content-language
tag as it was not conveying the intended data (which is already included via the HTMLlang
attribute)
2.6.1 - 2023-06-04
- Images are now marked for lazy loading by default (#552)
- Current language is no longer displayed in language selection (#565)
- Updated Simplified Chinese (China) translation (#573)
- Language selection repeats current language on multilingual sites instead of linking to translated content (#565)
- Icon padding inconsistent when using
--minify
option to build site (#568) - Copyright string in the language configuration does not apply (#572)
- Upgrade to Mermaid v10.2.1 (#569)
2.6.0 - 2023-05-25
- Support for Hugo v0.112.0
- Ability to specify an alternate logo image when dark appearance is active (#533, #543)
- Ability to specify the hashing algorithm that is used when fingerprinting assets (#478)
- Arabic translation (#521)
- Slovak translation (#541)
- Czech translation (#541)
⚠️ Some parameters in the root of the Languages config file have been nested under theparams
block- Search results now respect
showDate
value when displaying article metadata (#511) - Adopted new Tailwind logical properties for RTL styling
- Article sharing links now open in a new tab/window
- Updated Dutch translation (#544)
- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.3.1 (#523)
- Upgrade to KaTeX v0.16.7 (#538, #549)
- Upgrade to Chart.js v4.3.0 (#551)
- Upgrade to Mermaid v10.2.0 (#563)
- Some
srcset
values are broken when using Hugo--minify
option (#508) - Author images are cropped off-centre during image processing (#527)
- Site doesn't build when using Hugo v0.112.0 (#561)
2.5.4 - 2023-03-20
- Polish translation (#497)
- Updated Russian translation (#502)
- Bengali translation prevents site building in certain configurations (#503)
2.5.3 - 2023-03-05
- Russian translation (#485)
- Updated German translation (#475)
- Upgrade to Chart.js v4.2.1 (#472)
- Upgrade to Mermaid v9.4.0 (#473)
- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.2.7 (#491)
- Caching the analytics partial prevents some advanced analytics use cases (#480)
2.5.2 - 2023-01-24
- New icons for
mobile
andphone
- Author links containing URLs in non-hypertext schemes (ie.
tel:
) would not be created as links (#452) - Extra whitespace inserted after links within Markdown content (#456)
2.5.1 - 2023-01-20
- External links are now automatically appended with
rel="noreferrer noopener"
(#446) - Updated Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation (#448)
- Upgrade to Chart.js v4.2.0 (#449)
- Page alignment off-centre when opening hamburger menu at wide viewports (#445)
2.5.0 - 2023-01-17
- Support for icons in menus including support for links styled as an icon by itself or an icon with text
- Search and appearance switcher links can now be fully customised and positioned anywhere in the menu
- Front matter support for specifying article thumbnails, covers and featured image details (including filename pattern, alt text and caption)
- Two new colour schemes -
cherry
andsapphire
- Support for SVG assets as article thumbnails, covers and featured images
- Front matter keywords support on a per article basis
- Indonesian translation (#398)
- Mastodon sharing links (#405)
homepage.recentLimit
parameter to adjust the maximum number of recent items listed on the homepage (#411)
- Images smaller than the article width are no longer resized to fill the content area and will now simply align centre (#394)
- Upgrade to KaTeX v0.16.4 (#414)
- Upgrade to Mermaid v9.3.0 (#419)
- Upgrade to Chart.js v4.1.2 (#420, #434)
- Upgrade to Typography v0.5.9 (#437)
mainSections
parameter is language dependent and is not referenced fromparams.toml
(#376)- Code highlight background cut off in Google Chrome when overflowing content area (#383)
- Social icons shift position during CSS transition when hovered in Safari (#396)
- Hamburger navigation menu is misaligned in mobile browsers (#399)
- Error when attempting to resize SVG assets in page bundles (#427)
- Appearance switcher missing
aria-label
(#438) - Article links missing
alt
text andaria-label
(#439) - Line height in article tag list would cause overlap when wrapping to a new line (#444)
- Figure shortcode would not apply
class
orhref
attribtues in some cases - Charts displaying with incorrect theme colours
2.4.2 - 2022-11-22
- Dutch translation (#371)
- HTML
theme-color
meta tag to adjust browser colours according to the active Congo colour scheme (#379)
- Extended head and footer partials are no longer cached during builds
- Upgrade to Chart.js v4.0.1 (#373)
- Code highlight background cut off when overflowing content area (#374)
- 'Description' HTML meta tag not set from article description (#378)
2.4.1 - 2022-11-14
- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.2.4 (#368)
- List page doesn't render nested list pages (#365)
- Pagination is duplicated on term pages (#366)
- Link to last pagination page sometimes displays twice
- Recent articles would sometimes display less than five articles
2.4.0 - 2022-11-10
- Support for article thumbnails, covers and featured images
- Hybrid header layout that switches between the hamburger and basic menus at appropriate viewport sizes
- Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation (#262)
- New
list.paginationWidth
parameter to specify how many pagination links are generated before they are truncated - Site title display can be toggled on or off independently, allowing for it to be displayed alongside the site logo or removed entirely
- Tailwind plugin for Prettier to standardise the order of CSS classes (#268)
- External links in article content will now open in a new browser tab (#312)
- Independent control over the display of taxonomy listings on article and list pages (#326)
- Button shortcode now supports an optional
download
parameter to instruct browsers to directly download resources rather than navigate to a URL (#349) - Minor style and layout improvements
⚠️ Thelogo
parameter has moved under theheader
group and is now set usingheader.logo
⚠️ Simplified Chinese (China) language code has changed fromzh
tozh-cn
- Site logo is now in its own
logo.html
partial to allow it to be easily overridden (#322) - Upgrade to Chart.js v3.9.1 (#261)
- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.2.2 (#265, #333, #352)
- Upgrade to Mermaid v9.2.2 (#272, #279, #296, #339, #360)
- Upgrade to KaTeX v0.16.3 (#284, #334)
- Upgrade to Typography v0.5.8 (#287, #292, #353)
- Appearance switcher title doesn't update when switching appearance (#235)
- Article updated date logic doesn't consider formatted date values (#259)
- Error calling Paginate when attempting to generate a site with no taxonomies (#289)
- Multilingual links are spaced incorrectly when using Hugo minify (#298)
- Pagination links overflow the page area on large datasets (#299)
- Embedded content disappears when displayed at certain viewport sizes (#302, #335)
- Order of articles on list pages would not follow Hugo conventions when grouped by year (#313)
- Button shortcode overlaps table of contents when at the top of the article content (#337)
- Providing a
colorScheme
value containing uppercase characters breaks some deployments (#347)
2.3.1 - 2022-07-30
- Japanese translation (#234)
- Upgrade to Mermaid v9.1.3 (#233)
- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.1.6 (#245)
- Upgrade to Typography v0.5.4 (#246)
- Upgrade to Chart.js v3.8.2 (#247)
- Main content misaligned when hamburger menu is opened at large viewport sizes
2.3.0 - 2022-06-27
- Header layouts for selecting a preferred header style
- Hamburger menu header layout with popover main menu (#167, #88, #43, #29)
- Front matter support for showing or hiding comments on a per article basis (#207)
showCopyright
andshowThemeAttribution
parameters that allow more control over how the site footer is displayed (#192)bars
SVG icon
⚠️ Footer configuration parameters are now in their ownfooter
sub-group- Search will now return results for all page types, including lists and taxonomies
- Comments partials are now better considered within the page layout
- Reduced whitespace at the top of the main content block (#226)
- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.1.4 (#225)
- Hugo v0.101.0 breaks the link to the homepage (#230)
- Search link does not appear in header if main menu has no items to display
- Search only returns results in the primary language when multiple languages are available (#229)
- Arrow on external article links not aligned correctly when title wraps onto multiple lines
- Arrow on external article links points the wrong direction for RTL languages
- Scroll to top misaligned with the footer at small viewport heights
- Link to homepage would be incorrect in some deployments if
baseURL
contained sub-directories in the path
2.2.3 - 2022-06-22
- Profile image alt text now uses author name when available
- Search not working when
baseURL
does not end with a forward slash (#224) - Author
headline
parameter not correctly displaying Markdown or Emoji content
2.2.2 - 2022-06-16
- Breadcrumb display can now be can now be specified in front matter for articles and list pages
- Italian translation (#209)
2.2.1 - 2022-05-25
- Main content area doesn't grow to window height (#201)
2.2.0 - 2022-05-09
- Finnish translation (#185)
- Updated French translation (#178)
- Analytics partial now checks
hugo.IsProduction
instead of.Site.IsServer
before including scripts (#179) - Upgrade to Tailwind v3.0.24 (#176)
- Upgrade to Mermaid v9.0.1 (#183)
- Upgrade to Fuse.js v6.6.1 (#189)
- Code blocks are rendered incorrectly in RTL languages (#164)
- Scroll to top link overlaps footer menu on mobile devices when there are several links (#172)
hugo.Generator
from HTML<head>
so that the default Hugo generator behaviour works as expected (#179)
2.1.3 - 2022-04-12
- Hungarian translation (#170)
- Scroll to top link overlaps footer menu on mobile devices (#172)
2.1.2 - 2022-04-08
- Romanian translation (#168)
- Upgrade to Mermaid v9.0.0
2.1.1 - 2022-04-03
- Footer menu displays incorrectly in RTL languages (#165)
2.1.0 - 2022-03-14
- Upgrade SVG icons to FontAwesome 6:
- New icons for Hashnode, bug, check, comment, light bulb, list, pencil, skull, tag, and information. (#136)
⚠️ Theexclamation-triangle
icon has been renamedtriangle-exclamation
⚠️ Thetimes
icon has been renamedxmark
⚠️ Thestackoverflow
icon has been renamedstack-overflow
- Upgrade KaTeX to v0.15.3
- Markdown images and
figure
shortcode now search theassets/
directory if an image cannot be found in page bundle (#126) - Markdown images and
figure
shortcode now fallback to static assets if an image is not provided as a Hugo resource (#126) - Taxonomy term listings now honour the
groupByYear
parameter (#145) - The
alert
shortcode now allows its icon to be specified as a parameter
- Dark appearance shown even when default appearance set to light and auto switching is disabled (#149)
2.0.5 - 2022-02-20
- Bengali translation (#115)
- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.0.23 and Typography v0.5.2
- Upgrade to Mermaid v8.14.0
- Upgrade to Chart.js v3.7.1
- Updated date is displayed even when it is the same as published date
- Structured data on homepage unparsable by Google (#113)
- Underline styles not displaying correctly in some browsers (#125)
2.0.4 - 2022-02-09
- Updated German translation (#110)
- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.0.19
- Main content area not growing to fill screen vertically
- Search results not cleared when search is dismissed (#109)
- Emoji strings not displaying in search results
2.0.3 - 2022-02-07
- Markdown images and
figure
shortcode fail to load resource when providing an external URL source - HTML
figcaption
tags are output for Markdown images even when a caption is not provided - Light appearance briefly appears on page load before switching to dark appearance (#102)
2.0.2 - 2022-02-05
- Updated French translation (#100)
- User's appearance preference is lost on page load when default appearance is dark (#102)
- JavaScript warning when appearance switcher is disabled
2.0.1 - 2022-02-03
- Hugo module error when downloading version 2
- Emoji strings not displaying in table of contents
2.0.0 - 2022-02-03
- Multilingual support
- Right-to-left (RTL) language support
- Site search powered by Fuse.js
- Automatic Markdown image resizing and srcset generation
- Performance and Accessibility improvements to achieve perfect Lighthouse scores
- Tables of contents on article pages (#47)
- Code copy buttons in article content
- Taxonomy and term listings now support Markdown content
- Taxonomies on article and list pages
- Article pagination direction can be inverted
- Author
headline
parameter - Skip to content and Scroll to top links
- Archetype for generating links to external articles
⚠️ Required Hugo version is now 0.87.0 or later⚠️ Complete rewrite of dark mode to allow more flexibile configuration⚠️ All theme images are now Hugo assets⚠️ Overhauledfigure
shortcode which now resizes images- Upgrade to Tailwind v3.0.18
- Inline JavaScript moved to external files
- Improved JSON-LD structured data
- Breadcrumbs now fallback to section name when
title
is not provided - Minor style and layout improvements
1.6.4 - 2022-01-24
- Turkish translation (#90)
- Article updated date formatting and i18n (#91)
- Upgrade to Mermaid v8.13.10
- Article metadata not wrapping at small viewports (#91)
1.6.3 - 2022-01-19
- Icon for Stack Overflow (#82)
- Upgrade to Mermaid v8.13.9
- Upgrade to KaTeX v0.15.2
- Emoji characters in article titles not appearing on list pages and in HTML metadata (#84)
1.6.2 - 2022-01-07
- Upgrade to Chart.js v3.7.0
- Upgrade to Mermaid v8.13.8
lead
shortcode not rendering Markdown formatted text (#73)- JSON-LD keywords data not structured correctly (#74)
1.6.1 - 2021-12-31
- Icon for Blogger (#71)
1.6.0 - 2021-12-21
- Article word counts (#57)
- Last updated dates on articles
- Icons for Amazon, Apple, Flickr, Google, Kickstarter, Microsoft, Patreon, Telegram, Tumblr and WhatsApp
- Adjusted contrast of some items to improve accessibility
- Upgrade to Chart.js v3.6.2
- Upgrade to Mermaid v8.13.6
- Missing ARIA descriptions and alt tags on some images and links
1.5.3 - 2021-11-18
- Updated Chinese translation (#32)
- Article pagination uses date of current article (#32)
1.5.2 - 2021-11-10
- Article pagination link spacing (#26)
- Minor icon style issues
1.5.1 - 2021-11-04
- Hugo failing to build site when deploying as a module
1.5.0 - 2021-11-04
- Chart.js support using
chart
shortcode - KaTeX support using
katex
shortcode - Dark mode toggle with new theme parameters for managing light/dark appearance
- French translation (#18)
- Author bio in article footer
- Grouping by year can now be specified in front matter on list pages
- Site name, author and menus will now render Markdown and Emoji
- Bundled Mermaid for better vendor dependency management
- Mermaid diagrams are now themed to match the configured colour scheme
- Upgrade to Tailwind v2.2.19
- Site logo image dimensions are unconstrained (#19)
- Article summary styled incorrectly in dark mode
- Links containing
code
blocks styled incorrectly
1.4.0 - 2021-10-20
- Footer menu
- Article summary support
- Slate colour scheme (#9)
- Icons for ORCID and ResearchGate (#9)
- Pinterest sharing links
- Sharing links can now be specified in front matter
- Main menu is now optional
- Upgrade to Mermaid v8.13.3
- Upgrade to Tailwind v2.2.17
- Site logo not linked to home page (#13)
1.3.0 - 2021-09-29
- Site logo support
- Chinese translation (#2)
- Upgrade to Tailwind v2.2.16
1.2.1 - 2021-08-26
- New
robots
parameter to add metadata to guide robots on how to handle specific content
- URLs are relative by default which allows the theme to be more flexible in different deployment scenarios
- Missing dark style for group subheadings on article listings
- Fathom Analytics script included twice when using custom domain
- Recent heading on homepage profile layout misaligned
1.2.0 - 2021-08-22
- Multiple colour schemes
- Edit links on article pages
- Icons for Foursquare and Pinterest
- Asset fingerprinting and SRI
- CSS minification for custom stylesheets
- Static assets are now managed through Hugo Pipelines
- Minor style issue with
button
shortcode - Hugo Modules would fail when using default theme config file
- Some content not centred correctly on the profile homepage layout
- Some links missing the correct styles when in Firefox
externalUrl
front matter not working on some list pages
1.1.1 - 2021-08-19
- Hotfix for exampleSite and GitHub configuration
1.1.0 - 2021-08-18
- Breadcrumbs
- i18n support
- Recent articles partial
- CSS transitions
- Hugo module support
- JSON-LD structured metadata
⚠️ Renamed parameter:homepage.showList
->homepage.showRecent
⚠️ Renamed parameter:homepage.listSections
->mainSections
⚠️ Consolidated author configuration parameters intoconfig.toml
- General style tweaks to enhance design consistency
- URLs being incorrect in some cases when the site is deployed in a subfolder
1.0.0 - 2021-08-16
- Built with Tailwind CSS JIT for minified stylesheets without any excess code
- Fully responsive layout
- Dark mode (auto-switching based upon browser)
- Highly customisable configuration
- Multiple homepage layouts
- Flexible with any content types, taxonomies and menus
- Ability to link to posts on third-party websites
- Diagrams and visualisations using Mermaid JS
- SVG icons from FontAwesome 5
- Heading anchors, Buttons, Badges and more
- HTML and Emoji support in articles
- SEO friendly with links for sharing to social media
- RSS feeds
- Fathom Analytics and Google Analytics support
- Favicons support
- Comments support
- Advanced customisation using simple Tailwind colour definitions and styles
- Fully documented