pelican 3.4.0

Pelican

Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python.

• Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) in reStructuredText or Markdown

• Includes a simple CLI tool to (re)generate the weblog

• Easy to interface with DVCSes and web hooks

• Completely static output is easy to host anywhere

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