On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Nikola v8.1.2. This release has a bunch of new features,
fixes some bugs, and improves compatibility with some dependencies and
Windows.
What is Nikola?
===============
Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python.
It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup
formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown — and can even turn
Jupyter Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image galleries,
and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds are extremely
fast, courtesy of doit (which is rebuilding only what has been changed).
Find out more at the website: https://getnikola.com/
Downloads
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Install using `pip install Nikola`.
Changes
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Features
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* Support for multiple authors per post — comma-separated, enabled by
`MULTIPLE_AUTHORS_PER_POST` setting (Issue #3252)
* Add `navbar_custom_bg` theme option to `bootstrap4` and document
options for `bootstrap4` better (Issue #3443)
* Add Marathi translation
* Restore `caps` typogrify filter (wraps strings of capital letters
with `<span class="caps">` (via Issue #3405)
* Improve `nikola auto` performance with rate-limiting, support
`-n` argument to pass to `nikola build` (Issue #3401)
* Add support for the Utterances comment system
Bugfixes
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* Fix previewimages (post- and root-relative) in bootblog4/galleries
featured posts for non-server-root sites (Issue #3471)
* Windows: Also fix symlinks when installing from source with pip; if
possible,
enable Developer Mode and run `git config --global core.symlinks true`
before cloning the Nikola repo
* Fix clicking on links to image files. baguetteBox now requires a
link (`<a>`) to have an `<img>` as a child in order to make the
link activate the lightbox. (Issue #3472)
* Fix `LINK_CHECK_WHITELIST` having issues due to mixing Unicode
and bytestrings (Issue #3466)
* Add support for `nbconvert>=6.0.0` (Issue #3457)
* Read files as utf-8-sig to allow BOM in input files
* Don’t break slugs with slashes in `doc` directive (Issue #3450)
* Avoid warnings from type annotations in `auto` caused by missing
`aiohttp` (Issue #3451)
* Ensure query strings and fragments are kept with `URL_TYPE =
"full_path"` (Issue #3448)
* Don’t run typogrify filters on `<title>` tag to avoid adding extra
tags (Issue #3405)
* Fix handling of duplicate plugins on Windows
* Allow else clause in post-list plugin. (Issue #3436)
* Ensure `type` metadata value from plugins is preserved (Issue 3445)
* Fix path handlers with slashes on Windows
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Chris Warrick