jekyll 3.8.0

v3.8.0

on Ruby Gems

Development Fixes

• Move duplicate code to a single private method (#6593)
• Test against Ruby 2.5 on AppVeyor (#6668)
• Replace simple regex with a native Ruby method (#6732)
• Codeclimate: exclude livereload.js (#6776)
• Add a cucumber feature to test link tag (#6777)
• Fix theme gem feature (#6784)
• Replace simple regex with equivalent Ruby methods (#6736)
• Rewrite script/rubyprof as a Ruby script (#6813)
• Add debug output to theme rendering (#5195)
• Fix minitest deprecation warning in test (#6839)
• Memoize Site#site_data (#6809)
• Memoize document output extension (#6814)
• Access document permalink attribute efficiently (#6740)
• Minimize array allocations in the where filter (#6860)
• Bump JRuby (#6878)
• Assert existence of <collection>.files (#6907)
• Bump Rubocop to 0.54.x (#6915)
• Regenerate unconditionally unless its an incremental build (#6917)
• Centralize require statements (#6910)
• Bump to Rubocop 0.55 (#6929)
• Refactor private method HighlightBlock#parse_options (#6822)

Minor Enhancements

• Two massive performance improvements for large sites (#6730)
• Cache the list of documents to be written (#6741)
• Allow Jekyll Doctor to detect stray posts dir (#6681)
• Excerpt relative-path should match its path (#6597)
• Remind user to resolve conflict in jekyll new with --force (#6801)
• Memoize helper methods in site-cleaner (#6808)
• Compute document's relative_path faster (#6767)
• Create a single instance of PostReader per site (#6759)
• Allow date filters to output ordinal days (#6773)
• Change regex to sanitize and normalize filenames passed to LiquidRenderer (#6610)
• Allow passing :strict_variables and :strict_filters options to Liquid's renderer (#6726)
• Debug writing files during the build process (#6696)
• Improve regex usage in Tags::IncludeTag (#6848)
• Improve comment included in the starter index.md (#6916)
• Store and retrieve converter instances for Jekyll::Filters via a hash (#6856)
• Implement a cache within the where filter (#6868)
• Store regexp in a constant (#6887)
• Optimize computing filename in LiquidRenderer (#6841)

Documentation

• Adding the jekyll-algolia plugin to the list of plugins (#6737)
• Added Premonition plugin to list of plugins (#6750)
• Add document on releasing a new version (#6745)
• Mention Talkyard, a new commenting system for Jekyll and others. (#6752)
• Add 'jekyll-fontello' to plugins (#6757)
• Install dh-autoreconf on Windows (#6765)
• Fix common typos (#6764)
• Fix documentation for {{ page.excerpt }} (#6779)
• Update docs on permalink configuration (#6775)
• Propose fix some typos (#6785)
• Post: Say hello to Jekyll's New Lead Developer (#6790)
• Add reference to Liquid to plugin docs (#6794)
• Draft a release post for v3.7.3 (#6803)
• Add missing step for gem-based theme conversion (#6802)
• Update windows.md to explain an issue with jekyll new. (#6838)
• Add Bundler Installation Instructions (#6828)
• Describe difference between tags and categories (#6882)
• Add jekyll-random plugin to docs (#6833)
• Fixed typo in description of categories and tags (#6896)
• Add missing ul-tag (#6897)
• Add liquid tag plugin jekyll-onebox for html previews (#6898)
• Add jekyll-w2m to plugins (#6855)
• Fix tutorials navigation HTML (#6919)
• Arch Linux installation troubleshoot (#6782)
• Docs: Install Jekyll on macOS (#6881)
• Fix CodeClimate badges [ci skip] (#6930)
• Update index.md (#6933)

Site Enhancements

• Remove links to Gists (#6751)
• Always load Google Fonts over HTTPS (#6792)
• Always load analytics.js over HTTPS (#6807)

Bug Fixes

• Append appropriate closing tag to Liquid block in an excerpt ### -minor (#6724)
• Bypass rendering via Liquid unless required (#6735)
• Delegated methods after private keyword are meant to be private (#6819)
• Improve handling non-default collection documents rendering and writing (#6795)
• Fix passing multiline params to include tag when using the variable syntax (#6858)
• include_relative tag should find related documents in collections gathered within custom collections_dir (#6818)
• Handle liquid tags in excerpts robustly (#6891)
• Allow front matter defaults to be applied properly to documents gathered under custom collections_dir (#6885)