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3.1.9 (2011-06-30)

• Really fixed dependency generation between Sass partials this time
• Updated Less filter to 2.0
• Made colorize_syntax filter throw an error if pygmentize is not available

3.1.8 (2011-06-25)

• Made link validator accept https: URLs
• Fixed erroneous handling of layouts with names ending in index
• Fixed dependency generation between Sass partials
• Fixed errors related to thread requires
• Fixed crash while handling load errors
• Improved encoding handling while reading files

3.1.7 (2011-05-03)

• Restored compatibility with Sass 3.1

3.1.6 (2010-11-21)

• Fixed issues with incompatible encodings

3.1.5 (2010-08-24)

• Improved #render documentation
• Improved metadata section check so that e.g. raw diffs are handled properly
• Deprecated using Nanoc3::Site#initialize with a non-"." argument
• Added Ruby engine to version string
• Allowed the created_at and updated_at attributes used in the Blogging helper to be Date instances

3.1.4 (2010-07-25)

• Made INT and TERM signals always quit the CLI
• Allowed relative imports in LESS
• Made sure modification times are unchanged for identical recompiled items
• Improved link validator error handling
• Made pygmentize not output extra divs and pres
• Allowed colorizers to be specified using symbols instead of strings
• Added scss to the default list of text extensions

3.1.3 (2010-04-25)

• Removed annoying win32console warning [Eric Sunshine]
• Removed color codes when not writing to a terminal, or when writing to Windows’ console when win32console is not installed [Eric Sunshine]
• Added .xhtml and .xml to list of text extensions
• Improved support for relative Sass @imports [Chris Eppstein]

3.1.2 (2010-04-07)

• Fixed bug which could cause incorrect output when compilation of an item is delayed due to an unmet dependency

3.1.1 (2010-04-05)

• Sass @imports now work for files not managed by nanoc
• Rake tasks now have their Unicode description decomposed if necessary

3.1 (2010-04-03)

New:

• An Item#rep_named(name) function for quickly getting a certain rep
• An Item#compiled_content function for quickly getting compiled content
• An Item#path function for quickly getting the path of an item rep
• A new “+” wildcard in rule patterns that matches one or more characters
• A view command that starts a web server in the output directory
• A debug command that shows information about the items, reps and layouts
• A kramdown filter (kramdown site)
• A diff between the previously compiled content and the last compiled content is now written to output.diff if the enable_output_diff site configuration attribute is true
• Assigns, such as @items, @layouts, @item, … are accessible without @
• Support for binary items

Changed:

• New sites now come with a stylesheet item instead of a style.css file in the output directory
• The deploy:rsync task now use sensible default options
• The deploy:rsync task now accepts a config environment variable
• The deploy:rsync task now uses a lowercase dry_run environment variable
• The maruku filter now accepts parameters
• The rainpress filter now accepts parameters
• The filesystem data source is now known as filesystem_verbose
• Meta files and content files are now optional
• The filesystem_compact and filesystem_combined data sources have been merged into a new filesystem_unified data source
• The metadata section in filesystem_unified is now optional [Christopher Eppstein]
• The --server autocompile option is now known as --handler
• Assigns in filters are now available as instance variables and methods
• The #breadcrumbs_trail function now allows missing parents
• The sass filter now properly handles @import dependencies

Deprecated:

• Nanoc3::FileProxy; use one of the filename attributes instead
• ItemRep#content_at_snapshot; use #compiled_content instead
• The last_fm, delicious and twitter data sources; fetch online content into a cache by a rake task and load data from this cache instead

3.0.9 (2010-02-24)

• Fixed 1.8.x parsing bug due to lack of parens which could cause “undefined method to_iso8601_time for #String:0x…” errors

3.0.8 (2010-02-24)

• #atom_tag_for now works with base_urls that contain a path [Eric Sunshine]
• Generated root URLs in #atom_feed now end with a slash [Eric Sunshine]
• Autocompiler now recognises requests to index files
• Blogging helper now allows created_at to be a Time instance

3.0.7 (2010-01-29)

• Fixed bug which could cause layout rules not be matched in order

3.0.6 (2010-01-17)

• Error checking in filesystem_combined has been improved [Brian Candler]
• Generated HTML files now have a default encoding of UTF-8
• Periods in identifiers for layouts now behave correctly
• The relativize_paths filter now correctly handles “/” [Eric Sunshine]

3.0.5 (2010-01-12)

• Restored pre-3.0.3 behaviour of periods in identifiers. By default, a file can have multiple extensions (e.g. content/foo.html.erb will have the identifier /foo/), but if allow_periods_in_identifiers in the site configuration is true, a file can have only one extension (e.g. content/blog/stuff.entry.html will have the identifier /blog/stuff.entry/).

3.0.4 (2010-01-07)

• Fixed a bug which would cause the filesystem_compact data source to incorrectly determine the content filename, leading to weird “Expected 1 content file but found 3” errors [Eric Sunshine]

3.0.3 (2010-01-06)

• The Blogging helper now properly handles item reps without paths
• The relativize_paths filter now only operates inside tags
• The autocompiler now handles escaped paths
• The LinkTo and Tagging helpers now output escaped HTML
• Fixed played_at attribute assignment in the LastFM data source for tracks playing now, and added a now_playing attribute [Nicky Peeters]
• The filesystem_* data sources can now handle dots in identifiers
• Required enumerator to make sure #enum_with_index always works
• Array#stringify_keys now properly recurses

3.0.2 (2009-11-07)

• Children-only identifier patterns no longer erroneously also match parent (e.g./foo/*/ no longer matches /foo/)
• The create_site command no longer uses those ugly HTML entities
• Install message now mentions the IRC channel

3.0.1 (2009-10-05)

• The proper exception is now raised when no matching compilation rules can be found
• The autocompile command no longer has a duplicate --port option
• The #url_for and #feed_url methods now check the presence of the base_url site configuration attribute
• Several outdated URLs are now up-to-date
• Error handling has been improved in general

3.0 (2009-08-14)

New:

• Multiple data sources
• Dependency tracking between items
• Filters can now optionally take arguments
• #create_page and #create_layout methods in data sources
• A new way to specify compilation/routing rules using a Rules file
• A coderay filter (CodeRay site)
• A filesystem_compact data source which uses less directories

Changed:

• Pages and textual assets are now known as “items”

Removed:

• Support for drafts
• Support for binary assets
• Support for templates
• Everything that was deprecated in nanoc 2.x
• save_*, move_* and delete_* methods in data sources
• Processing instructions in metadata

2.2.2 (2009-05-18)

• Removed relativize_paths filter; use relativize_paths_in_html or relativize_paths_in_css instead
• Fixed bug which could cause nanoc to eat massive amounts of memory when an exception occurs
• Fixed bug which would cause nanoc to complain about the open file limit being reached when using a large amount of assets

2.2.1 (2009-04-08)

• Fixed bug which prevented relative_path_to from working
• Split relativize_paths filter into two filter: relativize_paths_in_html and relativize_paths_in_css
• Removed bundled mime-types library

2.2 (2009-04-06)

New:

• --pages and --assets compiler options
• --no-color commandline option
• Filtering helper
• #relative_path_to function in LinkTo helper
• rainpress filter (Rainpress site)
• relativize_paths filter
• The current layout is now accessible through the @layout variable
• Much more informative stack traces when something goes wrong

Changed:

• The commandline option parser is now a lot more reliable
• #atom_feed now takes optional :content_proc, :excerpt_proc and :articles parameters
• The compile command show non-written items (those with skip_output: true)
• The compile command compiles everything by default
• Added --only-outdated option to compile only outdated pages

Removed:

• deprecated extension-based code

2.1.6 (2009-02-28)

• The filesystem_combined data source now supports empty metadata sections
• The rdoc filter now works for both RDoc 1.x and 2.x
• The autocompiler now serves a 500 when an exception occurs outside compilation
• The autocompiler no longer serves index files when the request path does not end with a slash
• The autocompiler now always serves asset content correctly

2.1.5 (2009-02-01)

• Added Ruby 1.9 compatibility
• The filesystem and filesystem_combined data sources now preserve custom extensions

2.1.4 (2008-11-15)

• Fixed an issue where the autocompiler in Windows would serve broken assets

2.1.3 (2008-09-27)

• The haml and sass filters now correctly take their options from assets
• The autocompiler now serves index files instead of 404s
• Layouts named “index” are now handled correctly
• The filesystem_combined data source now properly handles assets

2.1.2 (2008-09-08)

• The utocompiler now compiles assets as well
• The sass filter now takes options (just like the haml filter)
• Haml/Sass options are now taken from the page rep instead of the page

2.1.1 (2008-08-18)

• Fixed issue which would cause files not to be required in the right order

2.1 (2008-08-17)

This is only a short summary of all changes in 2.1. For details, see the nanoc web site. Especially the blog and the updated manual will be useful.

New:

• New rdiscount filter (RDiscount site)
• New maruku filter (Maruku site)
• New erubis filter (Erubis site)
• A better commandline frontend
• A new filesystem data source named filesystem_combined
• Routers, which decide where compiled pages should be written to
• Page/layout mtimes can now be retrieved through page.mtime/layout.mtime

Changed:

• Already compiled pages will no longer be re-compiled unless outdated
• Layout processors and filters have been merged
• Layouts no longer rely on file extensions to determine the layout processor
• Greatly improved source code documentation
• Greatly improved unit test suite

Removed:

• Several filters have been removed and replaced by newer filters:
  • eruby: use erb or erubis instead
  • markdown: use bluecloth, rdiscount or maruku instead
  • textile: use redcloth instead

2.0.4 (2008-05-04)

• Fixed default.rb’s #html_escape
• Updated Haml filter and layout processor so that @page, @pages and @config are now available as instance variables instead of local variables

2.0.3 (2008-03-25)

• The autocompiler now honors custom paths
• The autocompiler now attempts to serve pages with the most appropriate MIME type, instead of always serving everything as text/html

2.0.2 (2008-01-26)

• nanoc now requires Ruby 1.8.5 instead of 1.8.6

2.0.1 (2008-01-21)

• Fixed a “too many open files” error that could appear during (auto)compiling

2.0 (2007-12-25)

New:

• Support for custom layout processors
• Support for custom data sources
• Database data source
• An auto-compiler
• Pages have parent and children

Changed:

• The source has been restructured and cleaned up a great deal
• Filters are defined in a different way now
• The eruby filter now uses ERB instead of Erubis

Removed:

• The filters property; use filters_pre instead
• Support for Liquid

1.6.2 (2007-10-23)

• Fixed an issue which prevented the content capturing plugin from working

1.6.1 (2007-10-14)

• Removed a stray debug message

1.6 (2007-10-13)

• Added support for post-layout filters
• Added support for getting a File object for the page, so you can now e.g. easily get the modification time for a given page (@page.file.mtime)
• Cleaned up the source code a lot
• Removed deprecated asset-copying functionality

1.5 (2007-09-10)

• Added support for custom filters
• Improved Liquid support -- Liquid is now a first-class nanoc citizen
• Deprecated assets -- use something like rsync instead
• Added eruby_engine option, which can be erb or erubis

1.4 (2007-07-06)

• nanoc now supports ERB (as well as Erubis); Erubis no longer is a dependency
• meta.yaml can now have haml_options property, which is passed to Haml
• Pages can now have a filename property, which defaults to index [Dennis Sutch]
• Pages now know in what order they should be compiled, eliminating the need for custom page ordering [Dennis Sutch]

1.3.1 (2007-06-30)

• The contents of the assets directory are now copied into the output directory specified in config.yaml

1.3 (2007-06-24)

• The @pages array now also contains uncompiled pages
• Pages with skip_output set to true will not be outputted
• Added new filters
  • Textile/RedCloth
  • Sass
• nanoc now warns before overwriting in create_site, create_page and create_template (but not in compile)

1.2 (2007-06-05)

• Sites now have an assets directory, whose contents are copied to the output directory when compiling [Soryu]
• Added support for non-eRuby layouts (Markaby, Haml, Liquid, …)
• Added more filters (Markaby, Haml, Liquid, RDoc [Dmitry Bilunov])
• Improved error reporting
• Accessing page attributes using instance variables, and not through @page, is no longer possible
• Page attributes can now be accessed using dot notation, i.e. @page.title as well as @page[:title]

1.1.3 (2007-05-18)

• Fixed bug which would cause layoutless pages to be outputted incorrectly

1.1.2 (2007-05-17)

• Backup files (files ending with a “~”) are now ignored
• Fixed bug which would cause subpages not to be generated correctly

1.1 (2007-05-08)

• Added support for nested layouts
• Added coloured logging
• @page now hold the page that is currently being processed
• Index files are now called “content” files and are now named after the directory they are in [Colin Barrett]
• It is now possible to access @page in the page’s content file

1.0.1 (2007-05-05)

• Fixed a bug which would cause a “no such template” error to be displayed when the template existed but compiling it would raise an exception
• Fixed bug which would cause pages not to be sorted by order before compiling

1.0 (2007-05-03)

• Initial release