Release history

4.8.0 - 2022-07-11

• Use JSON values for extra settings in Invoke tasks template (#2994)

• Add content tag for links, which can help with things like Twitter social cards (#3001)

• Improve word count behavior when generating summary (#3002)

4.7.2 - 2022-02-09

• Fix incorrect parsing of parameters specified via -e / –extra-settings option flags (#2938)

• Add categories.html template to default theme (#2973)

• Document how to use plugins to inject content (#2922)

4.7.1 - 2021-10-12

• Extend rich logging to server component (#2927)

• Fix an issue where metadata flagged to be discarded was being cached (#2926)

• Adjust suffix in server to allow redirection when needed (#2931)

• Add MIME types for web fonts (#2929)

• Distribute sample data used to run tests (#2935)

• Add Python 3.10 to test matrix

4.7.0 - 2021-10-01

• Improve default theme rendering on mobile and other small screen devices (#2914)

• Add support for hidden articles (#2866)

• Improve word count behavior when generating summary CJK & other locales (#2864)

• Add progress spinner during generation (#2869) and richer logging (#2897), both via Rich

• Invoke tasks serve and livereload now auto-open a web browser pointing to the locally-served web site (#2764)

• Support some date format codes used by ISO dates (#2902)

• Document how to add a new writer (#2901)

4.6.0 - 2021-03-23

• Add new URL pattern to PAGINATION_PATTERNS for the last page in the list (#1401)

• Speed up livereload Invoke task via caching (#2847)

• Ignore None return value from get_generators signal (#2850)

• Relax dependency minimum versions and remove upper bounds

4.5.4 - 2021-01-04

Replace plugin definitions in settings with string representations after registering, so they can be cached correctly (#2828).

4.5.3 - 2020-12-01

Fix a mistake made in PR #2821

4.5.2 - 2020-11-22

Improve logging of generators and writer loaders

4.5.1 - 2020-11-02

• Refactor intra-site link discovery in order to match more permissively (#2646)

• Fix plugins running twice in auto-reload mode (#2817)

• Add notice to use from pelican import signals instead of import pelican.signals (#2805)

4.5.0 - 2020-08-20

• Add namespace plugin support; list plugins via pelican-plugins command

• Override settings via -e / --extra-settings CLI option flags

• Add settings for custom Jinja globals and tests

• Customize article summary ellipsis via SUMMARY_END_SUFFIX setting

• Customize Typogrify dash handling via new TYPOGRIFY_DASHES setting

• Support Unicode when generating slugs

• Support Asciidoc .adoc file generation in Pelican importer

• Improve user experience when pelican --listen web server is quit

• Improve Invoke tasks template

• Include tests in source distributions

• Switch CI from Travis to GitHub Actions

• Remove support for Python 2.7

4.2.0 - 2019-10-17

• Support inline SVGs; don’t treat titles in SVGs as HTML titles

• Add category to feeds (in addition to tags)

• Improve content metadata field docs

• Add docs for including other Markdown/reST files in content

4.1.3 - 2019-10-09

• Fix quick-start docs regarding pelican --listen

• Set default listen address to 127.0.0.1

• Add extra/optional Markdown dependency to setup.py

• Use correct SSH port syntax for rsync in tasks.py

• Place all deprecated settings handling together

• Add related project URLs for display on PyPI

• Skip some tests on Windows that can’t pass due to filesystem differences

4.1.2 - 2019-09-23

Fix pelican.settings.load_source to avoid caching issues - PR #2621

4.1.1 - 2019-08-23

• Add AutoPub to auto-publish releases on PR merge

• Add CSS classes for reStructuredText figures

• Pass argv to Pelican main entrypoint

• Set default content status to a blank string rather than None

4.1.0 - 2019-07-14

• Live browser reload upon changed files (provided via Invoke task)

• Add pyproject.toml, managed by Poetry

• Support for invoking python -m pelican

• Add relative source path attribute to content

• Allow directories in EXTRA_PATH_METADATA

• Add all_articles variable to period pages (for recent posts functionality)

• Improve debug mode output

• Remove blank or duplicate summaries from Atom feed

• Fix bugs in pagination, pelican-import, pelican-quickstart, and feed importer

4.0.1 (2018-11-30)

• Refactor pelican.server logging

• Fix bug in which all static files were processed as “draft”

• Bug fixes for Invoke/Makefile automation, Importer, and other miscellanea

If upgrading from 3.7.x or earlier, please note that slug-related settings in 4.0+ use {slug} and/or {lang} rather than %s. If %s-style settings are encountered, Pelican will emit a warning and fall back to the default setting. Some user-submitted themes might try to format setting values but fail upon site build with a TypeError. In such cases, the theme needs to be updated. For example, instead of TAG_FEED_ATOM|format(tag.slug), use TAG_FEED_ATOM.format(slug=tag.slug)

4.0.0 (2018-11-13)

• Replace develop_server.sh script with pelican --listen

• Improved copy/link behavior for large static files (e.g., videos)

• New {static} syntax to link to static content; content linked to by {static} and {attach} is automatically copied over even if not in STATIC_PATHS

• Pages can now have draft status

• Show current settings via new --print-settings flag

• All settings for slugs now use {slug} and/or {lang} rather than %s. If %s-style settings are encountered, Pelican will emit a warning and fallback to the default setting.

• New signals: feed_generated and page_generated_write_page

• Replace Fabric with Invoke and fabfile.py template with tasks.py

• Replace PAGINATED_DIRECT_TEMPLATES by PAGINATED_TEMPLATES, extending control over pagination to all templates and making page size variable

• Replace SLUG_SUBSTITUTIONS (and friends) by SLUG_REGEX_SUBSTITUTIONS for more finegrained control

• '{base_name}' value in PAGINATION_PATTERNS setting no longer strips 'bar' from 'foo/bar.html' (unless 'bar' == 'index').

• ARTICLE_ORDER_BY and PAGE_ORDER_BY now also affect 1) category, tag and author pages 2) feeds 3) draft and hidden articles and pages

• New ARTICLE_TRANSLATION_ID and PAGE_TRANSLATION_ID settings to specify metadata attributes used to identify/disable translations

• Make the HTML reader parse multiple occurrences of metadata tags as a list

• New Blogger XML backup importer

• Wordpress importer now updates file links to point to local copies if the files were downloaded with --wp-attach.

• Importer no longer inserts extra newlines, to prevent breaking of HTML attributes.

• Pelican server now prioritises foo.html and foo/index.html over foo/ when resolving foo.

3.7.1 (2017-01-10)

• Fix locale issues in Quickstart script

• Specify encoding for README and CHANGELOG in setup.py

3.7.0 (2016-12-12)

• Atom feeds output <content> in addition to <summary>

• Atom feeds use <published> for the original publication date and <updated> for modifications

• Simplify Atom feed ID generation and support URL fragments

• Produce category feeds with category-specific titles

• RSS feeds now default to summary instead of full content; set RSS_FEED_SUMMARY_ONLY = False to revert to previous behavior

• Replace MD_EXTENSIONS with MARKDOWN setting

• Replace JINJA_EXTENSIONS with more-robust JINJA_ENVIRONMENT setting

• Improve summary truncation logic to handle special characters and tags that span multiple lines, using HTML parser instead of regular expressions

• Include summary when looking for intra-site link substitutions

• Link to authors and index via {author}name and {index} syntax

• Override widget names via LINKS_WIDGET_NAME and SOCIAL_WIDGET_NAME

• Add INDEX_SAVE_AS option to override default index.html value

• Remove PAGES context variable for themes in favor of pages

• SLUG_SUBSTITUTIONS now accepts 3-tuple elements, allowing URL slugs to contain non-alphanumeric characters

• Tag and category slugs can be controlled with greater precision using the TAG_SUBSTITUTIONS and CATEGORY_SUBSTITUTIONS settings

• Author slugs can be controlled with greater precision using the AUTHOR_SUBSTITUTIONS setting

• DEFAULT_DATE can be defined as a string

• Use mtime instead of ctime when DEFAULT_DATE = 'fs'

• Add --fatal=errors|warnings option for use with continuous integration

• When using generator-level caching, ensure previously-cached files are processed instead of just new files.

• Add Python and Pelican version information to debug output

• Improve compatibility with Python 3.5

• Comply with and enforce PEP8 guidelines

• Replace tables in settings documentation with data:: directives

3.6.3 (2015-08-14)

• Fix permissions issue in release tarball

3.6.2 (2015-08-01)

• Fix installation errors related to Unicode in tests

• Don’t show pagination in notmyidea theme if there’s only one page

• Make hidden pages available in context

• Improve URLWrapper comparison

3.6.0 (2015-06-15)

• Disable caching by default in order to prevent potential confusion

• Improve caching behavior, replacing pickle with cpickle

• Allow Markdown or reST content in metadata fields other than summary

• Support semicolon-separated author/tag lists

• Improve flexibility of article sorting

• Add --relative-urls argument

• Support devserver listening on addresses other than localhost

• Unify HTTP server handlers to pelican.server throughout

• Handle intra-site links to draft posts

• Move tag_cloud from core to plugin

• Load default theme’s external resources via HTTPS

• Import drafts from WordPress XML

• Improve support for Windows users

• Enhance logging and test suite

• Clean up and refactor codebase

• New signals: all_generators_finalized and page_writer_finalized

3.5.0 (2014-11-04)

• Introduce ARTICLE_ORDER_BY and PAGE_ORDER_BY settings to control the order of articles and pages.

• Include time zone information in dates rendered in templates.

• Expose the reader name in the metadata for articles and pages.

• Add the ability to store static files along with content in the same directory as articles and pages using {attach} in the path.

• Prevent Pelican from raising an exception when there are duplicate pieces of metadata in a Markdown file.

• Introduce the TYPOGRIFY_IGNORE_TAGS setting to add HTML tags to be ignored by Typogrify.

• Add the ability to use - in date formats to strip leading zeros. For example, %-d/%-m/%y will now result in the date 9/8/12.

• Ensure feed generation is correctly disabled during quickstart configuration.

• Fix PAGE_EXCLUDES and ARTICLE_EXCLUDES from incorrectly matching sub-directories.

• Introduce STATIC_EXCLUDE setting to add static file excludes.

• Fix an issue when using PAGINATION_PATTERNS while RELATIVE_URLS is enabled.

• Fix feed generation causing links to use the wrong language for month names when using other locales.

• Fix an issue where the authors list in the simple template wasn’t correctly formatted.

• Fix an issue when parsing non-string URLs from settings.

• Improve consistency of debug and warning messages.

3.4.0 (2014-07-01)

• Speed up content generation via new caching mechanism

• Add selective post generation (instead of always building entire site)

• Many documentation improvements, including switching to prettier RtD theme

• Add support for multiple content and plugin paths

• Add :modified: metadata field to complement :date:. Used to specify the last date and time an article was updated independently from the date and time it was published.

• Add support for multiple authors via new :authors: metadata field

• Watch for changes in static directories when in auto-regeneration mode

• Add filters to limit log output when desired

• Add language support to drafts

• Add SLUGIFY_SOURCE setting to control how post slugs are generated

• Fix many issues relating to locale and encoding

• Apply Typogrify filter to post summary

• Preserve file metadata (e.g. time stamps) when copying static files to output

• Move AsciiDoc support from Pelican core into separate plugin

• Produce inline links instead of reference-style links when importing content

• Improve handling of IGNORE_FILES setting behavior

• Properly escape symbol characters in tag names (e.g., C++)

• Minor tweaks for Python 3.4 compatibility

• Add several new signals

3.3.0 (2013-09-24)

• Drop Python 3.2 support in favor of Python 3.3

• Add Fabfile so Fabric can be used for workflow automation instead of Make

• OUTPUT_RETENTION setting can be used to preserve metadata (e.g., VCS data such as .hg and .git) from being removed from output directory

• Tumblr import

• Improve logic and consistency when cleaning output folder

• Improve documentation versioning and release automation

• Improve pagination flexibility

• Rename signals for better consistency (some plugins may need to be updated)

• Move metadata extraction from generators to readers; metadata extraction no longer article-specific

• Deprecate FILES_TO_COPY in favor of STATIC_PATHS and EXTRA_PATH_METADATA

• Summaries in Markdown posts no longer include footnotes

• Remove unnecessary whitespace in output via lstrip_blocks Jinja parameter

• Move PDF generation from core to plugin

• Replace MARKUP setting with READERS

• Add warning if img tag is missing alt attribute

• Add support for {} in relative links syntax, besides ||

• Add support for {tag} and {category} relative links

• Add a content_written signal

3.2.1 and 3.2.2

• Facilitate inclusion in FreeBSD Ports Collection

3.2 (2013-04-24)

• Support for Python 3!

• Override page save-to location from meta-data (enables using a static page as the site’s home page, for example)

• Time period archives (per-year, per-month, and per-day archives of posts)

• Posterous blog import

• Improve WordPress blog import

• Migrate plugins to separate repository

• Improve HTML parser

• Provide ability to show or hide categories from menu using DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_MENU option

• Auto-regeneration can be told to ignore files via IGNORE_FILES setting

• Improve post-generation feedback to user

• For multilingual posts, use meta-data to designate which is the original and which is the translation

• Add .mdown to list of supported Markdown file extensions

• Document-relative URL generation (RELATIVE_URLS) is now off by default

3.1 (2012-12-04)

• Importer now stores slugs within files by default. This can be disabled with the --disable-slugs option.

• Improve handling of links to intra-site resources

• Ensure WordPress import adds paragraphs for all types of line endings in post content

• Decode HTML entities within WordPress post titles on import

• Improve appearance of LinkedIn icon in default theme

• Add GitHub and Google+ social icons support in default theme

• Optimize social icons

• Add FEED_ALL_ATOM and FEED_ALL_RSS to generate feeds containing all posts regardless of their language

• Split TRANSLATION_FEED into TRANSLATION_FEED_ATOM and TRANSLATION_FEED_RSS

• Different feeds can now be enabled/disabled individually

• Allow for blank author: if AUTHOR setting is not set, author won’t default to ${USER} anymore, and a post won’t contain any author information if the post author is empty

• Move LESS and Webassets support from Pelican core to plugin

• The DEFAULT_DATE setting now defaults to None, which means that articles won’t be generated unless date metadata is specified

• Add FILENAME_METADATA setting to support metadata extraction from filename

• Add gzip_cache plugin to compress common text files into a .gz file within the same directory as the original file, preventing the server (e.g. Nginx) from having to compress files during an HTTP call

• Add support for AsciiDoc-formatted content

• Add USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY setting so that feature can be toggled on/off

• Support arbitrary Jinja template files

• Restore basic functional tests

• New signals: generator_init, get_generators, and article_generate_preread

3.0 (2012-08-08)

• Refactored the way URLs are handled

• Improved the English documentation

• Fixed packaging using setuptools entrypoints

• Added typogrify support

• Added a way to disable feed generation

• Added support for DIRECT_TEMPLATES

• Allow multiple extensions for content files

• Added LESS support

• Improved the import script

• Added functional tests

• Rsync support in the generated Makefile

• Improved feed support (easily pluggable with Feedburner for instance)

• Added support for abbr in reST

• Fixed a bunch of bugs :-)

2.8 (2012-02-28)

• Dotclear importer

• Allow the usage of Markdown extensions

• Themes are now easily extensible

• Don’t output pagination information if there is only one page

• Add a page per author, with all their articles

• Improved the test suite

• Made the themes easier to extend

• Removed Skribit support

• Added a pelican-quickstart script

• Fixed timezone-related issues

• Added some scripts for Windows support

• Date can be specified in seconds

• Never fail when generating posts (skip and continue)

• Allow the use of future dates

• Support having different timezones per language

• Enhanced the documentation

2.7 (2011-06-11)

• Use logging rather than echoing to stdout

• Support custom Jinja filters

• Compatibility with Python 2.5

• Added a theme manager

• Packaged for Debian

• Added draft support

2.6 (2011-03-08)

• Changes in the output directory structure

• Makes templates easier to work with / create

• Added RSS support (was Atom-only)

• Added tag support for the feeds

• Enhance the documentation

• Added another theme (brownstone)

• Added translations

• Added a way to use cleaner URLs with a rewrite url module (or equivalent)

• Added a tag cloud

• Added an autoreloading feature: the blog is automatically regenerated each time a modification is detected

• Translate the documentation into French

• Import a blog from an RSS feed

• Pagination support

• Added Skribit support

2.5 (2010-11-20)

• Import from WordPress

• Added some new themes (martyalchin / wide-notmyidea)

• First bug report!

• Linkedin support

• Added a FAQ

• Google Analytics support

• Twitter support

• Use relative URLs, not static ones

2.4 (2010-11-06)

• Minor themes changes

• Add Disqus support (so we have comments)

• Another code refactoring

• Added config settings about pages

• Blog entries can also be generated in PDF

2.3 (2010-10-31)

• Markdown support

2.2 (2010-10-30)

• Prettify output

• Manages static pages as well

2.1 (2010-10-30)

• Make notmyidea the default theme

2.0 (2010-10-30)

• Refactoring to be more extensible

• Change into the setting variables

1.2 (2010-09-28)

• Added a debug option

• Added per-category feeds

• Use filesystem to get dates if no metadata is provided

• Add Pygments support

1.1 (2010-08-19)

• First working version