Nikola v7.0.0 released!

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

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On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the release of
Nikola v7.0.0 (after 10 days of testing in RC1).

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
IPython 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: http://getnikola.com/

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Nikola v7.0.0 is the first major release since 8 months.  As such, we
had many things that could be changed.  There are some things that you
might need to change on your site, especially if you have a custom
theme. Here is a short and incomplete list of the most important
changes:

Key Changes since v6.4.0
========================

* New dependencies: ``natsort`` (natural sorting in galleries) and
  ``dateutil`` (replaces ``pytz``)
* Many deprecated options were removed.
* SCHEDULE_FORCE_TODAY, EXTRA_PLUGINS and ENABLED_EXTRAS are now
  removed and have no effect.

* Two options were changed:

    - HIDE_SOURCELINK → SHOW_SOURCELINK (inverted)
    - HIDE_UNTRANSLATED_POSTS → SHOW_UNTRANSLATED_POSTS (inverted)

* READ_MORE_LINK is split into INDEX_READ_MORE_LINK and
  RSS_READ_MORE_LINK.
  Moreover, new tags, like ``(remaining_)reading_time`` and
  ``(remaining_)paragraph_count``, were added.
* Added options: FORCE_ISO8601, LOGO_URL, SHOW_BLOG_TITLE (logo
  support), GENERATE_RSS, ROBOTS_EXCLUSIONS, CONTENT_FOOTER_FORMATS,
  RSS_PLAIN, UNSLUGIFY_TITLES (for meta extraction from filenames).
* 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.

* There are many changes to themes.  The ``base`` theme now offers a
  stylish look and is usable on sites, through a new stylesheet.  The
  HTML code is now more semantic and sectioned, making it easier to
  style sites. Some templates are also renamed or removed.
* The basic Jinja themes (base-jinja, bootstrap-jinja,
  bootstrap3-jinja) are now shipped with Nikola.  Please remove any
  leftover copies from your themes/ folders.
* You now can (and should!) specify a timezone offset in post dates,
  using a ``UTC±00:00`` syntax. (warning: ``UTC-03:00`` means *3 hours
  east of UTC* and not *west*, as is done in some Unix tools!)
  You can also use ISO 8601 dates (and if you want to do that, you
  should set ``FORCE_ISO8601=True`` to get those in new_post and
  new_page)
* You now can use the reST metadata format in .meta files, allowing
  for greater flexibility.

Get it!
=======

Nikola v7.0.0 is available for download at `GitHub`_ and `PyPI`_.

.. _GitHub: https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/releases/tag/v7.0.0
.. _PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Nikola

Changelog
=========

Features
- --------

* 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)

Bugfixes
- --------

* Markdown now outputs code in a reST-like fashion (Issue #1063)
* code.css is back to supporting only ``pre.code`` (Issue #1063)
* Links in monthly archives did not have ``/index.html`` if
  STRIP_INDEXES was set to False (Issue #1263)
* Fix lxml adding extra root tags being added by lxml by 
  lxml.html.tostring
* Not having typogrify installed now produces a valid error
  (Issue #1262)
* Pages were not rebuilt when DEMOTE_HEADERS was changed (Issue #1261)
* Removed SCHEDULE_FORCE_TODAY option (Issue #984)
* Give better error for unknown subcommands (Issue #1233)
* Handle conf.py for import plugins more generically (Issue #1235)
* Remove RSS files from the sitemap (Issue #804)
* ``nikola deploy`` works with DEPLOY_FUTURE = True (Issue #1249)
* Removed EXTRA_PLUGINS and ENABLED_EXTRAS options (Issue #1247)
* ``nikola COMMAND -h/--help`` now outputs command help and not Nikola
  help (showing the command help is standard behavior) (Issue #1245)
* Redirect pages should have a body linking to the new location
* The typogrify filter is now Python 3-compatible (Issue #1244)
* Fix ``nikola auto`` not watching changes in FILES_FOLDERS
  (Issue #1241)
* Vimeo and YouTube embedding in reStructuredText is now
  protocol-relative
* Don't crash if a unknown kind of path/link is requested
  (Issue #1236)
* Don't run ``clean`` and ``list`` outside sites (Issue #1232)
* If an invalid language is specified, Nikola now shows a helpful
  error message instead of a traceback (via Issue #1225)
* Ensure the locale is set correctly when compiling posts
  (Issue #1219)
* Fix site-dependent commands (they tried to run anyways)
  (Issue #1223)
* Follow symlinks when walking trees (Issue #1206)
* bootswatch_theme works again and does not try using server
  hostname=swatch (Issue #1202)
* Make markdown extensions not break when markdown is not installed
  (Issue #1201)
* hidetitle now works in posts, too (Issue #1188)
* Refactoring of post translation checking (Issue #1194)
* Trigger rebuild on gallery changes in auto mode (Issue #1180)
* Galleries are more usable in non-Bootstrap-based themes
  (Issue #1137)
* Removed dependency on pytz because mixing it with dateutil breaks
  things.
* Use current system TZ for current_time (Issue #1161)
* Fix links with full path in RSS for files outside root (Issue #1162)
* ``nikola new_post`` now always outputs a newline at the end of file
  (Issue #1169)
* Gallery code cleanup (Issue #1121)
* USE_FILENAME_AS_TITLE works again (Issue #1073)
* Rebuild CSS bundles when files change, and also when files are
  removed (Issue #1153)
* Don't call links to SITE_URL bad on check when URL_TYPE is
  'absolute' (Issue #1147)
* Trigger rebuilds if URL_TYPE changes (Issue #1095)
* Eliminate repeated tags in posts (Issue #1142)
* custom.css not included in bundles
* Don’t publish email addresses in RSS, use author name via Dublin
  Core
* Rebuild a lot of files when TIMEZONE changes (Issue #1110)
* The ``init`` command and the importers now always output to the CWD.
  Previously, if you had a ``conf.py`` file higher in the directory
  structure, Nikola would put the output of those commands in the
  directory that contained the file. (Issue #1132)
* Files with non-ASCII characters in filenames are copied only when
  needed, and not every build (Issue #1129)
* Split Twitter Cards and Open Graph, enable the latter by default
* Load html5shiv.js from remote or local server depending on USE_CDN
  option
* Fix dependency issue in listings (Issue #1032)
* Logging configuration has been fixed.  The stderr handler can now
  only be set to DEBUG or INFO (any higher levels are corrected as
  INFO), and unwanted (i.e. DEBUG) messages are not shown, as
  intended. (Issue #1111)
* Catch keyboard exit while serving so traceback does not show
  (Issue #1124)
* Support rescanning posts in the Nikola class (Issue #1100)
* Use TIMEZONE with ``nikola new_post`` and ``nikola new_page``.
  (Issue #1088)

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Chris “Kwpolska“ Warrick
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