Nikola

Version 5.4.4 is out!

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:04:43 GMT

Yes, version 5.4.4 is just published at the usual place, including the following improvements:

Features

New Japanese translation.
Nikola check exists with 1 if there is an error
New HIDE_UNTRANSLATED_POSTS option that ensures you don't have mixed-language pages (Issue #373)
New theme "site-planetoid" for use with the planetoid plugin.
New 'retired' tag for posts that should no longer be in feeds.

Bugfixes

Added post data as a uptodate check for mustache (Issue #456)
Rebuild post pages when the post's translation list changes (Issue #458)
Handle "-h" (Issue #460)
Added correct help for console command (Issue #460)
Escape twittercard data (Issue #452)
Added missing "twittercard" in story template
Added support for per-language tags (Issue #450)
Fix wrong path splitting (Issue #434)
Remember locale even when set_locale failes (Issue #446)
Decode path argument in new_post (Issue #442)
task_indexes had missing config dependencies (Issue #441)
Removed bogus links to slides assets that were removed
Compressed files were seen as unknown by "nikola check"
local search and mustache plugins must be disabled by default (Issue #437)
Avoid failure if there are no tags and USE_GZIP is enabled (Issue #439)
Fix aspect ratio detection in Vimeo videos (Issue #440)
Blogger importer was passing wrong options to "nikola init" (Issue #408)

Version 5.4.3 released

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:59:42 GMT

I am happy to announce the availability of version 5.4.3 of Nikola!

This is this version's changelog:

Features

Simpler slideshows based on Bootstrap's Carousel
New CREATE_MONTHLY_ARCHIVE option, defaults to False (Issue #433)
Added gist support for Markdown.
New "nocomments" metadata that disables comments for a page/post (Issue #278)
New HIDE_UNTRANSLATED_POSTS option (does nothing yet)
New EXTRA_HEAD_DATA option, which adds extra things in <HEAD> (Issue #385)
Moved translations to transifex.com
New custom sitemap generator (Issue #395)
New STRIP_INDEX_HTML option for cleaner URLs
New alternative markdown compiler based on misaka
New "internals" doc
Place links to RSS feeds more visible to the visitor
New CODE_COLOR_SCHEME option
New "template" metadata that changes the template for a page/post (Issue #199)
Added workaround for when Disqus doesn't support your exact locale (spanish only at the moment) Issue #389
Extra plugins can be enabled via conf.py.
Password-protected pages.

Bugfixes

Listings CSS fixes (Issue #416)
If dateutil is installed, try to use it to parse dates (Issue #419)
Fixed posterous import via import_wordpress (Issue #419)
Set locale to the value of "lang" in templates, so things like strftime use localized values. (Issue #368)
Fixed console command.
Cleaned up arbitrary metadata.
Don't crash in posts without actual post text.
Nicer tag listing.
Fixed unicode bug in markdown compiler.
Fixed unicode crash with polish dates and %B (Issue #383)
Fixed localsearch plugin
Warn if combining USE_CDN with a theme providing a copy of bootstrap (Issue #386)
Improved localsearch README
Updated to Tipue 2.1
Don't index draft posts for Tipue (Issue #387)
Modernized all rst extensions, added tests (rbistolfi)
Removed obsolete custom code-block directive
New function messages(msgid, lang=current_lang) available for templates
Fixed teasers (Issue #398)
Smarter guessing of the default post format (Issue #400)
Make headings not overlap navbar in site theme.
Added dummy codeblock fallback for docutils < 0.9
Detect dependency on included files in rest compiler
Use gallery path from config
Don't fail in corrupted images
Don't assume filenames are ASCII
Don't crash if sidebar_links is not set for a language.
All RSS feed links for tags pointed to the DEFAULT_LANG one in some themes.
Nikola.link and Nikola.path are now locale aware and lang is optional.
Make docutils a soft requirement
Normalize paths on task names (Issue #406)
Planetoid requires only 3 runs now ;-)
Blogger import: imports will not result in an TypeError because str.join expects all it's arguments to be of type str

Nikola 5.4 is out!

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:40:24 GMT

I am thrilled to announce the release of version 5.4 of Nikola, a static site/blog generator

Here's the (incomplete!) changelog for this release [1]:

Features

Twitter Card / Open Graph support.
Smart math support
New soundcould directive
Custom "read more" links
Better time display, timezone support
Better doit integration (Issue #151)
Make the whole listings folder browsable (Issue #128)
New GZIP_FILES/GZIP_EXTENSIONS options to create gzipped copies of some files (Issue #348)
New optional path parameter to new_post command.
Wordpress importer: option to not download files
Wordpress importer: option to squash newlines
Separated BLOG_URL into SITE_URL and BASE_URL
Added DISABLED_PLUGINS option (Issue #354)

Bugfixes

Added missing </div> in default theme templates.
Wordpress import: Description is left empty if no description is found.
When running the build command it is now possible to get help.
Load jQuery before bootstrap in JS bundle (Issue #327)
Generate valid HTML5 for redirects (Issue #276)
Fixed "nikola check"
Fixed internationalized RSS links
Make commands that need to be run in a site fail gracefully (Issue #342)
Use localized links on lxml fixer
Redirections created during the import from wordpress are now written to conf.py
Stop parsing metadata in post file on first blank line
Metadata handling cleanups by Tordek
Fixed blockquote font size inconsistency
Wordpress Import: Do not break indentation (issue #189)
Make things work even if SITE_URL has a path (Fix #307)

[1]	There are also some extra bits of documentation, and a awesome beta theme called "site-reveal" based on bootstrap and reveal.js!

New Nikola Tutorial

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:41:38 GMT

Tim van der Linden has written a impressive tutorial about how he used Nikola to create his new site shisaa.jp

It documents the whole process from scratch, starting by downloading Nikola up to building your own theme.

Even if you are already using Nikola you may find some new stuff there, so take a read (also, his theme is so pretty :-)

Nikola 5.3 released

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:49:20 GMT

I am happy to announce the release of Nikola version 5.3. It includes some minor features and a good amount of bugfixing. Upgrading to it should not cause you any trouble, as far as I know.

Here's the changelog:

Features

Bootstrap 2.3.0
Optionally use content distribution networks for jquery and twitter-bootstrap (USE_CDN option)
Improve progressive rendering by moving javascript to the bottom of pages
New Brazilian portuguese translation.
New planetoid experimental extra_plugin

Bugfixes

Make really sure we import the right conf.py
Make SLUG_TAG_PATH a config dep for most pages
Removed meta title tag for better HTML validation
Removed #999 background from footnote backlink.
Made footnote references be superscripted.
Centered figure's image and caption.
Removed outset border from admonitions.
Use default theme as last resource for messages/translations
DATE_FORMAT option was being ignored
Remove trailing "" on windows gallery links (Issue #298)
Inconsistent breadcrumbs in gallery pages (Issue #303)
Use source files as bundle dependencies instead of outputs (Issue #294)

Enjoy!

Nikola 5.2 released!

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:37:56 GMT

I am thrilled to announce that you can now download Nikola 5.2.

What's new in this version? A LOT. Don't let the minor version tick fool you, this version is packed with goodness. Let's start with features:

You can easily embed more content:

New vimeo directive for restructured text.
Custom "gist" directive providing reStructured text support for GitHub gists.

You can write your content in almost any markup:

Textile markup support.
Creole Wiki markup support.
txt2tags markup support.
bbcode markup support.
And of course, it still supports reStructured text, Markdown and HTML.

More languages:

New Catalá translation
New polish translation.
New Simplified Chinese translation.
Use multilingual Disqus (although it doesn't seem to work)

You can import your data:

New Blogger/Blogspot importer
Much improved Wordpress importer
Extract metadata from filename by using regexp (helpful for importing from octopress or other systems).

You can do fancier and more configurable sites:

One-page, dynamic-loading, client-rendered site plugin (task_mustache)
Recursive post/story folders
New COMMENTS_IN_GALLERIES and COMMENTS_IN_STORIES options.
Local search based on Tipue (extra_plugins/task_localsearch)
Added comments to image galleries
New option RSS_TEASERS
New STORY_INDEX option to generate index.html in story folders.
Add multi size favicon support.

You can use Python 2.6 or higher ... including Python 3. The only missing bit for full Python 3 support is Google sitemap generation.

And of course, a lot of bugs got smashed:

Added sane defaults for most options, so you can have a lean config file.
Made layout of the site theme responsive, with collapsing navbar.
Use timeline instead of parsing post_pages in generic_page_renderer and task_render_pages.
Updated disqus integration code, added identifiers so it works on any URL.
Make sure folder links end in "/" in the gallery code.
Removed copy of PyRSS2Gen, made it a dependency.
Detect "namespace" dependencies for Mako templates.
Use consistent encodings in RSS feeds.
Refactored disqus code into separate helpers
Use the correct extension (or raise an error) on new_post
Fix titles that include quotes
Updated to current CSS from docutils (was using version from 2005)
Avoid needless regeneration of gallery indexes.
Always ensure the folder for the new post exists.
Get title from filename if not available in metadata.
Don't copy sources if they end in ".html"
Don't link to unexisting translations.
Sort tags case insensitive.

Enjoy!

Nikola 5.1 Released

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:47:03 GMT

I am happy to announe release 5.1 of Nikola a static site/blog generator.

Features

Support for client-side cloud tags
New slides directive, for image slideshows.
New option DATE_FORMAT
New "nikola console" command
New option CACHE_FOLDER
Updated bootstrap to 2.2.2
Wordpress importer supports redirects
Wordpress importer creates a url_map for Disqus thread migration
Wordpress importer: support for [sourcecode]
Added unstyled theme "orphan", useful as a base for independent themes.
New "monospace" theme.
New "Create a Theme From Scratch" tutorial.

Bugfixes

Added ID attribute to gallery images for backlinking.
Added ALT attribute to gallery images.
Issue 113: refactored code in Mako templates
Added newline after metadata in new_post template.
Issue 112: RSS feeds contained invalid links
Issue 88: RSS feed validation via lxml
Isuue 169: build subcommands were broken
Switched addThis to Peekaboo style, as seen on flexion.org (seems less broken)
Remove duplicated sample config file. always build it from template (schettino72)
Don't use hardcoded path for custom.css (schettino72)
Wordpress importer: fixed issue 190, convert embedded H1 tags into H2
Fixed bad interaction with Yapsy 1.10
More elegant handling of "nikola init"
Don't crash if there's no assets to copy

Nikola v5 Released

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:11:51 GMT

A new version of Nikola is out! You can get it at the usual place.

This version is not completely backwards compatible, thus the new major version number, but switching to it should be easy-ish. If you are using version 4.0.3:

Remove your dodo.py
Use nikola build instead of doit from now on
use nikola serve instead of doit serve, nikola new_post instead of doit new_post, and so on. Some other doit task are also converted into nikola command you can get the list using nikola help

The integration of doit into Nikola is not done in a very nice way, that's still ongoing work, but it should be Good Enough To Work (TM).

Hope you enjoy this release!

Features

Templates now know their name from template_name in their context.
Made most of Nikola into Yapsy plugins.
Recurse galleries/ and render each folder as a gallery.
Breadcrumbs and folder links in image galleries.

Bugfixes

Fixed doc installation
Put webassets cache in cache/webassets
Update to doit 0.17
Don't crash on incomplete translations
Fixed Issue 160: render_tags didn't call scan_posts()
Fixed Issue 161: webassets setting USE_BUNDLES was ignored (fix by schettino72)
Fixed Issue 153: index.txt was being ignored in galleries.

Bugfix Version 4.0.3 Released

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:46:29 GMT

Version 4.0.3 is released

This is strictly a bugfix release, which fixes the following issues:

Handle empty posts without crashing.
Treat wordpress imported posts as Markdown.
Download attachments from wordpress
Fix links to attachments so they work
Change the global/local order of contexts on templates.
Link tag's feed in tag's pages.
Fix empty tag feeds.
Refactored Post out of nikola.py

Nikola 4.0.2 released

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 14:44:00 GMT

New bugfix release available for download. Here are the changes in this version:

Features

Updated to bootstrap 2.1.0
Italian translation by Pierpaolo Da Fieno
Index-like tag pages with the TAG_PAGES_ARE_INDEXES option

Bugfixes

Handle broken EXIF dates
Ignore .pyc files in the listings folder
Don't fail on render_pages when there is no content at all
Don't fail on render_posts when there is no content at all
Don't fail on render_sources when there is no content at all
Don't fail on build_bundles when there are no bundles
Added missing listing.tmpl to jinja-default theme
Added default for DEFAULT_LANG
Added default for TRANSLATIONS
Fixed getting metadata from post file.
More resistence to broken EXIF data.
Made jinja-default follow default more closely.
Don't say "reSt", say "Source" since it can be markdown or other stuff.