Hugo 0.20 Released: Custom Output Formats!

by bep

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More than 180 contributions by over 30 contributors in six weeks is impressive! The new Hugo 0.20 paves the way for JSON search indexes, calendars, e-books, Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP…

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Release Notes

Hugo 0.20 introduces the powerful and long sought after feature Custom Output Formats; Hugo isn’t just that “static HTML with an added RSS feed” anymore. Say hello to calendars, e-book formats, Google AMP, and JSON search indexes, to name a few ( #2828 ).

This release represents over 180 contributions by over 30 contributors to the main Hugo code base. Since last release Hugo has gained 1100 stars, 20 new contributors and 5 additional themes.

Hugo now has:

16300+ stars
495+ contributors
156+ themes

@bep still leads the Hugo development with his witty Norwegian humor, and once again contributed a significant amount of additions. Also a big shoutout to @digitalcraftsman for his relentless work on keeping the documentation and the themes site in pristine condition, and @moorereason and @bogem for their ongoing contributions.

Other Highlights

@bogem has also contributed TOML as an alternative and much simpler format for language/i18n files ( #3200 ). A feature you will appreciate when you start to work on larger translations.

Also, there have been some important updates in the Emacs Org-mode handling: @chaseadamsio has fixed the newline-handling ( #3126 ) and @clockoon has added basic footnote support.

Worth mentioning is also the ongoing work that @rdwatters and @budparr is doing to re-do the gohugo.io site, including a total restructuring and partial rewrite of the documentation. It is getting close to finished, and it looks fantastic!

Notes

RSS description in the built-in template is changed from full .Content to .Summary. This is a somewhat breaking change, but is what most people expect from their RSS feeds. If you want full content, please provide your own RSS template.
The deprecated .RSSlink is now removed. Use .RSSLink.
RSSUri is deprecated and will be removed in a future Hugo version, replace it with an output format definition.
The deprecated .Site.GetParam is now removed, use .Site.Param.
Hugo does no longer append missing trailing slash to baseURL set as a command line parameter, making it consistent with how it behaves from site config. #3262

Enhancements

Hugo 0.20 is built with Go 1.8.1.
Add .Site.Params.mainSections that defaults to the section with the most pages. Plan is to get themes to use this instead of the hardcoded blog in where clauses. #3206
File extension is now configurable. #320
Impove markdownify template function performance. #3292
Add taxonomy terms’ pages to .Data.Pages #2826
Change RSS description from full .Content to .Summary.
Ignore “.” dirs in hugo --cleanDestinationDir #3202
Allow jekyll import to accept both 2006-01-02 and 2006-1-2 date format #2738
Raise the default rssLimit #3145
Unify section list vs single template lookup order #3116
Allow apply to be used with the built-in Go template funcs print, printf and println. #3139

Fixes

Fix deadlock in getJSON #3211
Make sure empty terms pages are created. #2977
Fix base template lookup order for sections #2995
URL fixes:
- Fix pagination URLs with baseURL with sub-root and canonifyUrls=false #1252
- Fix pagination URL for resources with “.” in name #2110 #2374 #1885
- Handle taxonomy names with period #3169
- Handle uglyURLs ambiguity in Permalink #3102
- Fix Permalink for language-roots wrong when uglyURLs is true #3179
- Fix misc case issues for URLs #1641
- Fix for taxonomies URLs when uglyUrls=true #1989
- Fix empty RSSLink for list pages with content page. #3131
Correctly identify regular pages on the form “my_index_page.md” #3234
Exit -1 on ERROR in global logger #3239
Document hugo help command #2349
Fix internal Hugo version handling for bug fix releases. #3025
Only return RSSLink for pages that actually have a RSS feed. #1302