CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

0.18.0 (2023-12-18)

• Fix LFI in zola serve
• Do not panic when root directory or config file not found
• Fix base_url link attributes in atom templates
• Use all authors for atom templates
• Always sort page/section assets by filename
• Allow setting attributes to lazy load all images from Config.toml
• Fix HTML generated in class based highlighting with line numbers
• Add a replace_re filter
• Speed up zola check and only checks external links once, even if present in multiple languages
• Add search.index_format into the serialized config in the templates
• Add --force flag in zola serve if the directory is not empty
• Add ignored_static to the config to ignore specific files from the static directory
• Add Hungarian support for search
• Actually remove codeblocks from search index
• Fix taxonomies missing lang in sitemap

0.17.2 (2023-03-19)

• Fix one more invalid error with colocated directories
• Revert "Recognize links starting with www as external for the link checker" as they won't be external links in practice
• Use page.summary for atom.xml if available
• Fix cachebusting not working with binary files
• Fix warning message for multilingual sites

0.17.1 (2023-02-24)

• Fix bugs with colocated directories in the root content directory
• Fix zola serve not respecting preserve_dotfiles_in_output
• Add generate_feed field to the section object in templates

0.17.0 (2023-02-16)

Breaking

• get_file_hash is removed, use get_hash instead. Arguments do not change
• Replace libsass by a Rust implementation: grass. See https://sass-lang.com/documentation/breaking-changes for breaking changes with libsass: look for "beginning in Dart Sass"
• Merge settings for the default language set in the root of config.toml and in the [languages.{default_lang}] section. This will error if the same keys are defined multiple times
• Code blocks content are no longer included in the search index
• Remove built-ins shortcodes
• Having a file called index.md in a folder with a _index.md is now an error
• Ignore temp files from vim/emacs/macos/etc as well as files without extensions when getting colocated assets
• Now integrates the file stem of the original file into the processed images filename: {stem}.{hash}.{extension}

Other

• Add get_taxonomy_term function
• Add slugify.paths_keep_dates option
• Add command to generate shell completions
• Fix link generation to co-located assets other than images
• Add get_hash Tera function
• Minify CSS and JS embedded in HTML
• Fix slow image processing
• Fix current_url in taxonomy term
• Add new flag zola serve --no_port_append to give the ability to remove port from base url
• config.markdown is now available in templates
• Add preserve_dotfiles_in_output option in the config
• Add Elasticlunr JSON output for the search index
• Add sorting by slug for pages
• Enable locale date formatting for the Tera date filter
• Cachebust fingerprint is now only 20 chars long
• Add text alias for plain text highlighting (before, only txt was used)
• Adds a new field to page: colocated_path that points to the folder of the current file being rendered if it's a colocated folder. None otherwise.
• Add author as a first-class property to the config and authors to pages
• Allows using external URL for redirect_to
• Recognize links starting with www as external for the link checker

0.16.1 (2022-08-14)

• Fix many Windows bugs
• Fix overriding built-in shortcodes
• Support .yml files with load_data

0.16.0 (2022-07-16)

Breaking

• Switch to pulldown-cmark anchor system rather than ours, some (very niche) edge cases are not supported anymore, you can also specify classes on headers now
• Now outputs empty taxonomies instead of ignoring them
• Unify all pages sorting variable names in templates to lower/higher in order to make it easy to re-use templates and it was becoming hard to come up with names to be honest

Other

• Fix markup for fenced code with linenos
• Make ignored_content work with nested paths and directories
• zola serve/build can now run from anywhere in a zola directory
• Add XML support to load_data
• Add YAML support to load_data
• skip_prefixes is now checked before parsing external link URLs
• Add render attribute to taxonomies configuration in config.toml, for when you don't want to render any pages related to that taxonomy
• Serialize transparent field from front-matter of sections
• Use Zola Tera instance for markdown filter: this means you have access to the same Tera functions as in shortcodes
• Ignore sections with render=false when looking for path collisions
• Add support for backlinks
• Add a warning mode for internal/external link checking in case you don't want zola to stop the build on invalid links
• Always follow symlinks when loading the site/assets
• Add rel="alternate" to Atom post links
• Fix taxonomy current_path
• Fix feed location for taxonomies not in the default language
• Add title_bytes sorting method
• Add insert_anchor = "heading", which allows users to use the entire heading as a link
• Apply orientation transformation based on EXIF data
• Fix generated homepages not having their translations filled properly

0.15.3 (2022-01-23)

• Fix shortcodes not being rendered in code blocks
• Fix colocated assets with no extensions being ignored
• Add headers parameters to load_data
• Fix themes robots.txt not being rendered
• Check for local internal anchors in HTML content of markdown files
• Fix issues loading custom syntaxes if highlight_theme = css

0.15.2 (2021-12-10)

• Fix HTML shortcodes

0.15.1 (2021-12-08)

• Fix markdown shortcodes not being rendered correctly
• Fix config data not getting to the templates

0.15.0 (2021-12-05)

• Fix config file watching
• Support custom syntax highlighting themes
• Add a required argument to taxonomy template functions to allow them to return empty taxonomies
• Support colocating subfolders
• Shortcodes and anchor-link.html can now access the lang context
• Add prompt before replacing the output directory with zola build if the output-dir flag is given
• Shortcode handling has been completely rewritten, solving many issues
• Also add internal links starting with # without any internal Zola link

0.14.1 (2021-08-24)

• HTML minification now respects HTML spec (it still worked before because browsers can handle invalid HTML well and minifiers take advantage of it)
• Show all errors on zola serve
• zola serve now properly returns a 404
• Fix zola serve having issues with config files in separate dir
• Fix code blocks content not being escaped when not using syntax highlighting
• Add missing draft attribute to the section variable in templates

0.14.0 (2021-07-19)

Breaking

• Newlines are now required after the closing +++ of front-matter
• resize_image now returns an object: {url, static_path} instead of just the URL so you can follow up with other functions on the new file if needed
• get_file_hash now has the base64 option set to true by default (from false) since it's mainly used for integrity hashes which are base64
• i18n rework: languages now have their sections in config.toml to set up all their options
  1. taxonomies don't have a lang anymore in the config, you need to declare them in their respective language section
  2. the config variable in templates has been changed and is now a stripped down language aware version of the previous config object
  3. Search settings are now language specific
  4. Translations are now nested in the languages table
• Paths unification:
  1. get_url does not load automatically from the static folder anymore
  2. New path resolving logic for all on-disk files: replace @/ by content/, trim leading / and search in $BASE_DIR + $path, $BASE_DIR + static + $path and $BASE_DIR + content + $path
  3. get_file_hash now returns base64 encoded hash by default
  4. all functions working on files can now only load files in the Zola directory
  5. resize_image return value has changed
  6. page.assets now start with a / to match section.assets and other paths

Other

• Internal links are now resolved in the markdown filter in the templates (#1296 #1316)
• Add a required argument to load_data so it can be allowed to fail
• get_file_hash now supports returning the base64 encoded hash
• The markdown filter not renders shortcodes
• Image processing now supports WebP
• Fix zola serve failing for some static files
• Fix zola serve not picking up directory renaming
• Add path to the taxonomy terms to be on par with pages and sections
• Add the base16-aterlierdune-light syntax highlight theme
• Improve link checking: less concurrency and try to not overload the servers
• Allow using POST for load_data, along with a body to POST and allow it to fail
• Add Zig and Protobuf syntax highlighting
• Footnotes links are now stripped from summaries - they were not linking to anything.
• get_url and get_taxonomy_url are now marked as safe, no need to call | safe on their output
• Add allow_missing optional argument to get_image_metadata to not error if the file is not found
• Add permalink to Taxonomy in templates
• Syntax highlighting improvements, see documentation for details on each
  1. Add CSS class based syntax highlighting
  2. Allow hiding specific lines
  3. Allow showing line numbers

0.13.0 (2021-01-09)

• Enable HTML minification
• Support output_dir in config.toml
• Allow sections to be drafted
• Allow specifying default language in filenames
• Render emoji in Markdown content if the render_emoji option is enabled
• Enable YouTube privacy mode for the YouTube shortcode
• Add language as class to the <code> block and as data-lang
• Add bibtex to load_data
• Add a [markdown] section to config.toml to configure rendering
• Add highlight_code and highlight_theme to a [markdown] section in config.toml
• Add external_links_target_blank, external_links_no_follow and external_links_no_referrer
• Add a smart_punctuation option in the [markdown] section in config.toml to turn elements like dots and dashes into their typographic forms
• Add iteration count variable nth for shortcodes to know how many times a shortcode has been invoked in a given content
• Update some highlighting syntaxes and the TS syntax will now be used instead of JS due to issues with it
• Remove zola serve --watch-only: since we build the HTML in memory and not on disk, it doesn't make sense anymore
• Update clojure syntax
• Prefer extra syntaxes to the default ones if we have a match for language
• Fix zola serve having issues with non-ascii paths
• 404 page now gets the site default language as lang

0.12.2 (2020-09-28)

• Fix zola serve being broken on reload

0.12.1 (2020-09-27)

• Add line highlighting in code blocks
• Fix the new zola serve being broken on Windows
• Fix slugified taxonomies not being rendered at the right path
• Fix issues with shortcodes with newlines and read more

0.12.0 (2020-09-04)

Breaking

• All paths like current_path, page.path, section.path (except colocated assets) now have a leading /
• Search index generation for Chinese and Japanese has been disabled by default as it leads to a big increase in binary size

Other

• Add 2 syntax highlighting themes: green and railsbase16-green-screen-dark
• Enable task lists in Markdown
• Add support for SVG in get_image_metadata
• Fix parsing of dates in arrays in extra
• Add a --force argument to zola init to allow creating a Zola site in a non-empty directory
• Make themes more flexible: include can now be used
• Make search index generation configurable, see docs for examples
• Fix Sass trying to load folders starting with _, causing issues with frameworks
• Update livereload.js version
• Add Markdown-outputting shortcodes
• Taxonomies with the same name but different casing are now merged, eg Author and author

0.11.0 (2020-05-25)

Breaking

• RSS feed support has been altered to allow, and default to, Atom feeds, Atom being technically superior and just as widely-supported in normal use cases.

  • New config value feed_filename, defaulting to atom.xml (change to rss.xml to reinstate the old behaviour)
  • Config value rss_limit is renamed to feed_limit
  • Config value languages.*.rss is renamed to languages.*.feed
  • Config value generate_rss is renamed to generate_feed
  • Taxonomy value rss is renamed to feed

  Users with existing feeds should either set feed_filename = "rss.xml" in config.toml to keep things the same, or set up a 3xx redirect from rss.xml to atom.xml so that existing feed consumers aren’t broken.

• The feed template variable last_build_date is renamed to last_updated to more accurately reflect its semantics

• The sitemap template’s SitemapEntry type’s date field has been renamed to updated to reflect that it will use the updated front-matter field if available, rather than date

• Code blocks are now wrapped in <pre><code> instead of just <pre>

Other

• Add updated front-matter field for pages, which sitemap templates will use for the SitemapEntry.date field instead of the date front-matter field, and which the default Atom feed template will use
• Add lang to the feed template context
• Add taxonomy and term to the feed template context for taxonomy feeds
• Fix link checker not looking for anchor with capital id/name
• Pass missing lang template parameter to taxonomy list template
• Fix default index section not having its path set to '/'
• Change cachebust strategy to use SHA256 instead of timestamp

0.10.1 (2020-03-12)

• Set user agent for HTTP requests
• Add nyx-bold highlight theme
• Add lyric and subtitles highlighting
• Enable strikethrough in markdown filter

0.10.0 (2020-02-17)

Breaking

• Remove toc variable in section/page context and pass it to page.toc and section.toc instead so they are accessible everywhere

Other

• Add zenburn syntax highlighting theme
• Fix zola init .
• Add total_pages to paginator
• Do not prepend URL prefix to links that start with a scheme
• Allow skipping anchor checking in zola check for some URL prefixes
• Allow skipping prefixes in zola check
• Check for path collisions when building the site
• Fix bug in template extension with themes
• Use Rustls instead of openssl
• The continue reading HTML element is now a <span> instead of a <p>
• Update livereload.js
• Add --root global argument

0.9.0 (2019-09-28)

Breaking

• Add --drafts flag to build, serve and check to load drafts. Drafts are never loaded by default anymore
• Using fit in resize_image on an image smaller than the given height/width is now a no-op and will not upscale images anymore

Other

• Add --open flag to open server URL in default browser
• Fix sitemaps namespace & do not urlencode URLs
• Update livereload
• Add hard_link_static config option to hard link things in the static directory instead of copying
• Add warning for old style internal links since they would still function silently
• Print some counts when running zola check
• Re-render all pages/sections when anchor-link.html is changed
• Taxonomies can now have the same name in multiple languages
• zola init can now be create sites inside the current directory
• Fix table of contents generation for deep heading levels
• Add lang in all templates context except sitemap, robots
• Add lang parameter to get_taxonomy and get_taxonomy_url
• Rebuild whole site on changes in themes changes
• Add one-dark syntax highlighting theme
• Process images on changes in zola serve if needed after change

0.8.0 (2019-06-22)

Breaking

• Allow specifying heading IDs. It is a breaking change in the unlikely case you are using {#..} in your heading
• Internal links are now starting by @/ rather than ./ to avoid confusion with relative links
• Latest Tera version now cares about where the safe filter is, always put it at the end of an expression.

Other

• Fix image processing not happening if called from the template
• Add a zola check command to that validates the site and checks all external links
• Sections can have aliases as well
• Anchors in internal links are now checked for existence

0.7.0 (2019-04-28)

Breaking

• Remove --base-path option, it broke serve on Windows and wasn't properly tested

Other

• Strip wrapping whitespaces from shortcodes
• Sort sitemap elements by permalink

0.6.0 (2019-03-25)

Breaking

• earlier/later and lighter/heavier are not set anymore on pages when rendering a section
• The table of content for a page/section is now only available as the toc variable when rendering it and not anymore on the page/section variable
• Default directory for load_data is now the root of the site instead of the content directory
• Change variable sent to the sitemap template, see documentation for details

Other

• Add support for content in multiple languages
• Lower latency on serve before rebuilding from 2 to 1 second
• Allow processing PNG and produced images are less blurry
• Add an id (zola-continue-reading) to the paragraph generated after a summary
• Add Dracula syntax highlighting theme
• Fix using inline styles in headers
• Fix sections with render=false being shown in sitemap
• Sitemap is now split when there are more than 30 000 links in it
• Add link to sitemap in robots.txt
• Markdown rendering is now fully CommonMark compliant
• load_data now defaults to loading file as plain text, unless format is passed or the extension matches csv/toml/json
• Sitemap entries get an additional extra field for pages only
• Add a base-path command line option to build and serve

0.5.1 (2018-12-14)

• Fix deleting markdown file in zola serve
• Fix pagination for taxonomies being broken and add missing documentation for it
• Add missing pager pages from the sitemap
• Allow and parse full RFC339 datetimes in filenames
• Live reload is now enabled for the 404 page on serve

0.5.0 (2018-11-17)

Breaking

• Gutenberg has changed name to zola!
• The pagers variable of Paginator objects has been removed
• section.subsections is now an array of paths to be used with the get_section Tera function
• Table of content now strips HTML from the titles to avoid various issues
• gutenberg-anchor CSS class has been renamed zola-anchor
• data is now a reserved variable name in templates, it is unused right now but might change soon.

Others

• Many many times faster (x5-x40) for most sites
• Update dependencies, fixing a few bugs with templates
• Load only .html files in themes from the templates folder
• Background colour is set fewer times when highlighting syntaxes, resulting in smaller HTML filesize
• Link checker will not try to validate email links anymore
• Load table and footnote markdown extensions in markdown filter
• get_url now defaults to not adding a trailing slash
• Fix --base-url not overriding processed images URLs
• Add more Emacs temp file to the ignored patterns in gutenberg serve
• Files starting with . are not considered pages anymore even if they end with .md
• _processed_images folder for image processing has been renamed processed_images to avoid issues with GitHub Pages
• Syntax highlighting default was mistakenly true, it has been set to false
• Add NO_COLOR and CLICOLOR support for having colours or not in CLI output
• Fix robots.txttemplate not being used
• RSS feed now takes all available articles by default instead of limiting to 10000
• templates directory is now optional
• Add Reason and F# syntax highlighting
• Add ancestors to pages and sections pointing to the relative path of all ancestor sections up to the index to be used with the get_section Tera function
• Add a load_data Tera function to load local CSV/TOML/JSON files
• Add relative_path to pages and sections in templates
• Do not have a trailing slash for the RSS permalinks
• serve will now try to find other ports than 1111 rather than panicking
• Ensure content directory exists before rendering aliases
• Do not include drafts in pagination
• Pages filenames starting by a date will now use that date as page date if there isn't one defined in frontmatter
• Accept markdown files starting with BOM
• Add a watch-only flag to the serve command for when you don't want a webserver
• Add transparent sections, for when you want to separate content by sections but want to group them at a higher level (think a posts folder with years that want to use pagination on the index).
• Add page_template to section front-matter for when you want to specify the template to use for every page under it
• Improves to zola serve: now handles directories renaming

0.4.2 (2018-09-03)

• Add assets to section indexes
• Allow users to add custom highlighting syntaxes
• Add Swift, MiniZinc syntaxes and update others
• Handle post summaries better: no more cutting references

0.4.1 (2018-08-06)

• Fix live reload of a section content change getting no pages data
• Fix critical bug in serve in some OSes
• Update deps, should now build and work correctly on BSDs

0.4.0 (2018-08-04)

Breaking

• Taxonomies have been rewritten from scratch to allow custom ones with RSS and pagination
• order sorting has been removed in favour of only having weight
• page.next/page.previous have been renamed to page.later/page.earlier and page.heavier/page.lighter depending on the sort method

Others

• Fix serve not working with the config flag
• Websocket port on live will not get the first available port instead of a fixed one
• Rewrite markdown rendering to fix all known issues with shortcodes
• Add array arguments to shortcodes and allow single-quote/backtick strings
• Co-located assets are now permalinks
• Words are now counted using unicode rather than whitespaces
• Aliases can now be pointing directly to specific HTML files
• Add year, month and day variables to pages with a date
• Fix panic when live reloading a change on a file without extensions
• Add image resizing support
• Add a 404 template
• Enable preserve-order feature of Tera
• Add an external link checker
• Add get_taxonomy global function to return the full taxonomy

0.3.4 (2018-06-22)

• cargo update as some dependencies didn't compile with current Rust version
• Add CMake syntax highlighting and update other syntax highlighting

0.3.3 (2018-03-29)

• Fixed config flag in CLI
• Sitemap entries are now sorted by permalinks to avoid random ordering
• Preserve directory structure from sass folder when copying compiled css files to the public directory
• Do not require themes to have a static folder
• Now supports indented Sass syntax
• Add search index building
• Update Tera: now has break and continue in loops
• Gutenberg now creates an anchor link at the position of the <!-- more --> tag if you want to link directly to it
• Fix many shortcode parsing issues
• Correctly copy themes shortcodes so they are useable in content
• Fix internal links not working for markdown files directly in content directory

0.3.2 (2018-03-05)

• Fix serve command trying to read all files as markdown
• Add many syntax highlighting themes
• Fix date being serialised incorrectly in page extra section of front-matter

0.3.1 (2018-02-15)

• Update Tera and other dependencies
• Add option for inline (ie no <p>...</p> wrapping) in markdown filter
• Allow to specify both interface and base_url in gutenberg serve for usage in Docker

0.3.0 (2018-01-25)

Breaking

• Change names of individual taxonomies to be plural (ie tags/my-tag instead of tag/my-tag)
• Front matter now uses TOML dates rather strings: remove quotes from your date value to fix it. For example: date = "2001-10-10" becomes date = 2001-10-10
• language_code has been renamed default_language in preparations of i18n support

Others

• Add get_taxonomy_url to retrieve the permalink of a tag/category
• Fix bug when generating permalinks for taxonomies
• Update to Tera 0.11
• Better UX on first serve thanks to some default templates.
• Add output-dir to build and serve to generate the site in a folder other than public
• Add Prolog syntax highlighting and update all current syntaxes
• Live reloading now works on shortcode template changes
• gutenberg serve now reloads site on config.toml changes: you will need to F5 to see any changes though
• Add a trans global function that will get return the translation of the given key for the given lang, defaulting to config.default_language if not given
• gutenberg serve cleans after itself and deletes the output directory on CTRL+C

0.2.2 (2017-11-01)

• Fix shortcodes without arguments being ignored
• Fix shortcodes with markdown chars (_, *, etc) in name and args being ignored
• Fix subsections of index not being filled without a _index.md
• Fix generated index section not found in get_section global function
• Fix permalink generation for index page
• Add Nim syntax highlighting
• Allow static folder to be missing
• Fix shortcodes args being only passed as strings
• Add page.components and section.components that are equivalent to path.split('/')
• Expose page.draft in the template

0.2.1 (2017-10-17)

• Fix base-url argument to gutenberg build being called base
• Add syntaxes: Crystal, Elixir, Kotlin

0.2.0 (2017-10-05)

• Fix section.subsections not being filled correctly
• section.subsections can now be sorted by a weight attribute on a section front-matter
• Do nothing on directory adding/removal in livereload
• Add back draft on pages that was wrongly removed
• Page and Section path field is not starting with a / anymore
• All Tera global fns are now rebuilt on changes
• Use flags for port/interface in gutenberg serve
• Fix various issues with headers markdown rendering
• Rename insert_anchor in section front-matter to insert_anchor_links
• Remove insert_anchor_links from the config: it wasn't used
• Add class variable to gist shortcode
• Add reading analytics to sections content
• Add config to sitemap template
• Add permalink to all taxonomy items (tags & categories)
• Tags in the tags page are now sorting alphabetically instead of by number of pages in them
• Remove deprecated link param of get_url
• Add 1337 color scheme
• Defaults to compressed Sass output
• Fix regression wrt co-located assets slug detecting
• Rename url from page front-matter to path to be consistent
• Add a base-url flag to the build command to override the URL from config.toml

0.1.3 (2017-08-31)

• Add themes support

0.1.2 (2017-08-10)

• Add redirect_to to section front matter to redirect when landing on section root page
• Make title in config optional
• Improved gutenberg init UX and users first experience
• Make get_url work for any path with optional cachebusting.
• Deprecates link param of get_url in favour of path to be consistent

0.1.1 (2017-07-16)

• Fix RSS feed not behaving (getzola#101)

0.1.0 (2017-07-14)

• Parallelize all the things
• Add weight sorting
• Remove section from the page rendering context: this is too expensive. Use the global function get_section if you need to get it
• Put back a 20 page limit on rss feed by default (configurable)
• Remove index page getting all sections: use the get_section global fn instead to only get the ones you need
• Remove pages from pagers in pagination: they were not supposed to be there
• Add built-in Sass compilation support

0.0.7 (2017-06-19)

• Sort individual tag/category pages by date
• Add extra builtin shortcode for Streamable videos
• path and permalink now end with a /
• Generate table of contents for each page
• Add section to a page Tera context if there is one
• Add aliases to pages for when you are changing urls but want to redirect to the new one
• Name the homepage section index (previously empty string)

0.0.6 (2017-05-24)

• Fix missing serialized data for sections
• Change the single item template context for categories/tags
• Add a get_url and a get_section global Tera function
• Add a config option to control how many articles to show in RSS feed
• Move insert_anchor_links from config to being a section option and it can now be insert left or right

0.0.5 (2017-05-15)

• Fix XML templates overriding and reloading
• title and description are now optional in the front matter
• Add GenericConfig, Vim, Jinja2 syntax
• Add _index.md for homepage as well and make that into a normal section
• Allow sorting by none, date and order for sections
• Add pagination
• Add a get_page global function to tera
• Revamp index page, no more pages variables
• Fix livereload stopping randomly
• Smarter re-rendering in serve command

0.0.4 (2017-04-23)

• Fix RSS feed link and description
• Renamed Page::url and Section::url to Page::path and Section::path
• Pass current_url and current_path to every template
• Add id to headers to allow anchor linking
• Make relative link work with anchors
• Add option to render an anchor link automatically next to headers
• Only copy the static files that changed, not the whole directory in gutenberg serve
• Use summary if available in RSS feed
• Add tables and footnotes support in markdown
• Add more language syntaxes
• Only load templates ending by .html

0.0.3 (2017-04-05)

• Add some colours in console
• Allow using a file other than config.toml for config
• Add sections to the index page context
• Fix page rendering not working when containing +++
• Add shortcodes (see README for details)
• Allow relative links to other content in markdown links
• Add markdown, base64_encode and base64_decode filters to the Tera instance of Gutenberg
• Work on Windows!