Releases¶

Version 4.0, In Development¶

Add support for Python 3.6.
Include an OpenGraphExtension to add metadata to blog posts.
Include a TwitterExtension to add metadata to blog posts.
Add post context to blog post rendering which includes post.previous and post.next posts to link between pages.
Remove support for Python 2.7.
Drop support for Python 3.3 (EOL).

Processs Jinja 2 templates for any file with a .j2 extension with the built-in Jinja2Composer.
Add SitemapExtension to generate sitemaps.
Move version information into the handroll package so it is available at runtime.
Perform continuous integration testing on OS X.
Include posts in the blog feed list to permit more complex list rendering.
Remove support for Python 2.6

Replaced all flag based commands with sub-commands. This change means all interaction now happens through handroll build, handroll watch, and handroll scaffold.

Create a site quickly with the new scaffold command (e.g., handroll -s default new_site)
Use the SmartyPants library to generate better quotation marks for Markdown.
Composers can be forced to compose with the --force flag.
Translated to Arabic.
Relax the frontmatter requirement and don’t force the inclusion of the YAML directive (e.g., %YAML 1.1).
Support Python 3.5.
An output directory can be a relative path.

Added an extension interface for plugin authors to integrate with various events.
Added a blog extension to automatically generate an Atom XML feed and blog listing page.
Translated to Greek.

A development server (accessible from the watch flag) will monitor a site and generate new output files as the source is modified.
Sass support for .scss and .sass files.
Add internationalization (i18n).
Translated to French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Skip certain directories that should not be in output (like a Sass cache).
Moved project to a GitHub organization to separate from a personal account.
Include documentation in the release.
Massive unit test improvements (100% coverage).