jekyll 1.3.0

v1.3.0

on Ruby Gems

Major Enhancements

• Add support for adding data as YAML files under a site's _data
  directory (#1003)
• Allow variables to be used with include tags (#1495)
• Allow using gems for plugin management (#1557)

Minor Enhancements

• Decrease the specificity in the site template CSS (#1574)
• Add encoding configuration option (#1449)
• Provide better error handling for Jekyll's custom Liquid tags
  (#1514)
• If an included file causes a Liquid error, add the path to the
  include file that caused the error to the error message (#1596)
• If a layout causes a Liquid error, change the error message so that
  we know it comes from the layout (#1601)
• Update Kramdown dependency to ~> 1.2 (#1610)
• Update safe_yaml dependency to ~> 0.9.7 (#1602)
• Allow layouts to be in subfolders like includes (#1622)
• Switch to listen for site watching while serving (#1589)
• Add a json liquid filter to be used in sites (#1651)
• Point people to the migration docs when the jekyll-import gem is
  missing (#1662)

Bug Fixes

• Fix up matching against source and destination when the two
  locations are similar (#1556)
• Fix the missing pathname require in certain cases (#1255)
• Use + instead of Array#concat when building Post attribute list (#1571)
• Print server address when launching a server (#1586)
• Downgrade to Maruku ~> 0.6.0 in order to avoid changes in rendering (#1598)
• Fix error with failing include tag when variable was file name (#1613)
• Downcase lexers before passing them to pygments (#1615)
• Capitalize the short verbose switch because it conflicts with the
  built-in Commander switch (#1660)
• Fix compatibility with 1.8.x (#1665)
• Fix an error with the new file watching code due to library version
  incompatibilities (#1687)

Development Fixes

• Add coverage reporting with Coveralls (#1539)
• Refactor the Liquid include tag (#1490)
• Update launchy dependency to ~> 2.3 (#1608)
• Update rr dependency to ~> 1.1 (#1604)
• Update cucumber dependency to ~> 1.3 (#1607)
• Update coveralls dependency to ~> 0.7.0 (#1606)
• Update rake dependency to ~> 10.1 (#1603)
• Clean up site.rb comments to be more concise/uniform (#1616)
• Use the master branch for the build badge in the readme (#1636)
• Refactor Site#render (#1638)
• Remove duplication in command line options (#1637)
• Add tests for all the coderay options (#1543)
• Improve some of the cucumber test code (#1493)
• Improve comparisons of timestamps by ignoring the seconds (#1582)

Site Enhancements

• Fix params for JekyllImport::WordPress.process arguments (#1554)
• Add jekyll-suggested-tweet to list of third-party plugins (#1555)
• Link to Liquid's docs for tags and filters (#1553)
• Add note about installing Xcode on the Mac in the Installation docs (#1561)
• Simplify/generalize pagination docs (#1577)
• Add documentation for the new data sources feature (#1503)
• Add more information on how to create generators (#1590, #1592)
• Improve the instructions for mimicking GitHub Flavored Markdown
  (#1614)
• Add jekyll-import warning note of missing dependencies (#1626)
• Fix grammar in the Usage section (#1635)
• Add documentation for the use of gems as plugins (#1656)
• Document the existence of a few additional plugins (#1405)
• Document that the date_to_string always returns a two digit day (#1663)
• Fix navigation in the "Working with Drafts" page (#1667)
• Fix an error with the data documentation (#1691)