Nikola v7 finally out!

2014-05-16 18:14 | Also available in: Español

I am thrilled to announce version 7 of Nikola, a static site and blog generator is out, with a bazillion features and bugfixes (see below).

You can get it at all the usual places, and here's the release announcement

Here's the new features, the bugfixes list would make the post too long :-)

Added UNSLUGIFY_TITLES option for making titles fetched via the filename regexp prettier (Issue #1282)
New dependencies: natsort (natural sorting in galleries) and dateutil (replaces pytz)
Nikola.commands are now the user-friendly wrappers from console (Issue #1177)
Add a github_deploy command to deploy to GitHub pages (Issue #1208)
Remove tidy filter (it was broken due to tidy being ancient) (Issue #1164)
Added GENERATE_RSS setting to allow disabling RSS in Nikola (Issue #1236)
Link listings raw sources if COPY_SOURCES is True (Issue #1214)
Much more powerful nikola plugin command (Issue #1189)
More powerful console mode allows access to all nikola commands (Issue #830)
New `ROBOTS_EXCLUSIONS` option listing resources to exclude from sitemap and include in new generated /robots.txt (Issue #804)
Generate sitemapindex containing RSS and sitemap files (Issue #804)
Support hooks in templates, for use by plugins (Issue #896)
Use readline if available (Issue #1238)
Replaced READ_MORE_LINK with INDEX_READ_MORE_LINK and RSS_READ_MORE_LINK (Issue #1222)
Added reading_time, remaining_reading_time, paragraph_count, remaining_paragraph_count tags for READ_MORE_LINK (Issue #1220)
Add canonical link in listings.
Added support for new meta files that are the same format as 1-file metadata, allowing for greater flexibility (Issue #954)
Colorbox is now internationalized (Issue #1205)
Added LOGO_URL and SHOW_BLOG_TITLE=True settings to facilitate showing off logos (Issue #1122)
Create automatic story index pages for subfolders, too (Issue #793)
New Slovak translation by Tomáš Prékop
Created a MarkdownExtension plugin class (Issue #1175)
The base theme produces properly sectioned and semantic HTML5 (Issues #1123, #1137)
The base theme comes with a new stylish look by default (Issue #1137)
The base theme supports Right-to-Left by using ::dir(rtl) CSS4 rules and <html dir="rtl"> tags where valid (Issue #1146)
Bootstrap 2 updated to 2.3.2 (via Issue #1137)
Added FORCE_ISO8601 setting that currently makes new_post use ISO 8601 dates (via Issue #1156)
Added support for TZ specified in post date (Issue #1118)
Make nikola init ask about the site’s settings (Issue #1080)
Use natural sorting for files and folders list in listings and galleries (Issue #1144)
Added invariance testing (Issue #672)
Plugins can inject templates in the system (Issue #1139)
nikola import_wordpress now has a --qtranslate option, to parse posts in the qtranslate wordpress plugin format and turn them into multilingual Nikola posts (Issue #1072)
nikola console allows for interpreter choice via -b, -i, -p; moreover, support for bpython is not deprecated anymore (Issue #1126)
retired tag for posts has been replaced with private (via Issue #686)
Changed the default TRANSLATIONS_PATTERN to "{path}.{lang}.{ext}". (Issues #990, #829)
Backwards compatibility with v5 is broken. Added backwards-incompatible changes. (Issue #829)
Added a CONTENT_FOOTER_FORMATS config option. It is used to format the CONTENT_FOOTER variable properly, for compatibility with the Translatable Settings feature. The variable takes a dict, the keys of which are languages, and values are (args, kwargs). (Issue #1112)
Certain settings are now translatable. As of now, the settings are: BLOG_AUTHOR, BLOG_TITLE, BLOG_DESCRIPTION, LICENSE, CONTENT_FOOTER, SOCIAL_BUTTONS_CODE, SEARCH_FORM, BODY_END, EXTRA_HEAD_DATA, NAVIGATION_LINKS, READ_MORE_LINK (the up-to-date list is available in SITE.TRANSLATABLE_SETTINGS) (Issues #851, #1057, #1061, #1112)
New Post.author() returns meta 'author' or BLOG_AUTHOR (Issue #1117)
Ship base-jinja, bootstrap-jinja, bootstrap3-jinja with Nikola (Issue #1104)
Invert HIDE_SOURCELINK and HIDE_UNTRANSLATED_POSTS into SHOW_SOURCELINK and SHOW_UNTRANSLATED_POSTS (Issue #1076)
Remove old messages left over for backwards compatibility: (Issues #829, #1105)
- "More posts about", replaced by "More posts about %s"
- "Posted", replaced by "Posted:"
- "Also available in", replaced by "Also available in:"
Remove old "sl_SI", "tr_TR" locale aliases (use "sl" and "tr") (Issue #829, #1105)
New option RSS_PLAIN to optionally strip HTML from RSS feeds (Issue #1107)
Support content key in compilers' create_post (Issue #1098)
Use setuptools’ extras feature. Use pip install nikola[extras] to install Nikola with extras (requirements-extras.txt, formerly requirements-full.txt -- note the name change!) (Issue #1089)

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