2.6.1

• Fix .yaml files with UTF-8 content not being read correctly. Now, files with a BOM are correctly recognized, and files without a BOM are assumed to be UTF-8 encoded.
• Fix Query failure when a filter is used in conjunction with reverse, but without specifying a sort order.
• Fix readtime ignoring the words_per_minute parameter.
• Fix validate-links failing on empty documents due to an incorrect assertion.

2.6.0

• Bump minimum Python version to 3.10.
• Improve log output for shortcodes. Use --debug to see information about each shortcode invocation.

2.5.4

• Provide the current node as a context variable to shortcode handlers.

2.5.3

• Rewrite the ShortcodePreprocessor. This resolves many issues with the existing preprocessor, for example:

  • Quoted strings containing /%> are handled correctly now.
  • Multiple shortcodes can be used in one line.
  • No whitespace is needed before the closing tag.
  • Non-quoted values can contain - now (previously, it was an alphanumeric characters or _ only)
  • Parsing robustness has generally improved with better error messages.

2.5.2

• Fix the liara.signals.commandline_prepared signal not specifying a sender, unlike all other signals.
• Improve documentation of signals & plugins.

2.5.1

• Add exclude and include to thumbnail definitions to skip creation of thumbnails for some images.

2.5.0

• Add support for "shortcodes", that is, function calls embedded in the document source.
• Add a new configuration option to load plugins from a directory.
• Documents which fail to parse don't abort the build any more. Instead, a warning will be printed pointing to the broken document, and the processing will continue.
• Markdown extensions can be configured now. As part of this change, the default output format changed to html5 (previously it was xhtml.)
• Add a new build_context global variable to templates.

2.4.1

• Add support for parallel node processing. This can result in significantly faster build times for sites with many resources. You can use --no-parallel to disable parallel processing in case this causes problems.
• Add support for additional thumbnail formats. This also replaces the old mechanism using image_thumbnail_sizes with a new configuration setting, image_thumbnails.
• Use tomllib on Python 3.11 instead of tomli.
• The RedisCache uses transactions now to avoid problems with concurrent access to individual cache items.

2.4.0

• Add Query.with_node_kinds and Query.without_node_kinds to Query. This allows lists of nodes (as returned by SiteTemplateProxy.select and other functions) to be filtered by the node kind. This is useful if you want to mix static content and documents in the same folder.
• Add SiteTemplateProxy.select_pages and Page.children to select pages (i.e. document and index nodes) only without having to manually filter the result using with_node_kinds/without_node_kinds.
• Add node_kinds to Collection.__init__ to allow constraining a collection to a specific node kind.
• Add exclude_without to Collection.__init__ and Index.__init__ to allow excluding items without a specific metadata field.
• Improve the debug output during publishing. The template publisher will now print which document is published using which template. As part of this change, Template.path was added.
• Change how Page.references is populated for top level indices. Previously, references would not be populated for a top-level index. Additionally, improve the documentation of top-level indices.
• Improve error handling when trying to sort nodes which are missing the corresponding metadata key, for example, using liara.query.Query.sorted_by_title. Previously, this would raise an exception about a failed comparison involving None, now this raises a more useful exception which contains the path to the item missing the metadata key and which key was requested.

v2.3.4

• Add a new configuration option to select the SASS compiler.
• Add support for caching to SassResourceNode. This can significantly speed up building sites with large amounts of SASS files.
• Change the default log formatting settings:
  • The default output no longer includes the source. The source refers (typically) to the class producing the log message and results in noise for most normal use of Liara.
  • The verbose output includes the message severity now. This makes it easier to spot warnings and errors in the verbose output.
  • The debug output level contains both the source and the severity.