jekyll 4.0.0.pre.beta1

v4.0.0.pre.beta1

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Major Enhancements

• Drop ruby 2.3 (#7454)
• Drop support for Ruby 2.1 and 2.2 (#6560)
• Drop support for older versions of Rouge (#6978)
• Drop support for pygments as syntax-highlighter (#7118)
• Drop support for Redcarpet (#6987)
• Drop support for rdiscount (#6988)
• Drop support for jekyll-watch-1.4.0 and older (#7287)
• Incorporate relative_url filter in link tag (#6727)
• Upgrade kramdown dependency to v2.x (#7492)
• Upgrade i18n to v1.x (#6931)
• Add Jekyll::Cache class to handle caching on disk (#7169)
• Cache converted markdown (#7159)
• Cache: Do not dump undumpable objects (#7190)
• Cache matched defaults sets for given parameters (#6888)
• Ignore cache directory (#7184)
• Add Site#in_cache_dir helper method (#7160)
• Remove 'cache_dir' during jekyll clean (#7158)
• Cache parsed Liquid templates in memory (#7136)
• Only read layouts from source_dir or theme_dir (#6788)
• Allow custom sorting of collection documents (#7427)
• Always exclude certain paths from being processed (#7188)
• Remove Jekyll::Utils#strip_heredoc in favor of a Ruby > 2.3 built in (#7584)
• Incorporate relative_url within post_url tag (#7589)
• Remove patch to modify config for kramdown (#7699)

Bug Fixes

• Security: fix include bypass of EntryFilter#filter symlink check (#7226)
• Theme gems: ensure directories aren't symlinks (#7419)
• Add call to unused method validate_options in commands/serve.rb (#7122)
• Check if scope applies to type before given path (#7263)
• Document two methods, simplify one of the methods (#7270)
• Check key in collections only if it isn't "posts" (#7277)
• Interpolate Jekyll::Page subclass on inspection (#7203)
• Measure the no. of times a template gets rendered (#7316)
• Reduce array traversal in Jekyll::Reader (#7157)
• Re-implement handling Liquid blocks in excerpts (#7250)
• Documents should be able to render their date (#7404)
• Fix Interpreter warning from Jekyll::Renderer (#7448)
• Loggers should accept both numbers and symbols (#6967)
• Replace regex arg to :gsub with a string arg (#7189)
• Dont write static files from unrendered collection (#7410)
• Excerpt handling of custom and intermediate tags (#7382)
• Change future post loglevel to warn to help user narrow down issues (#7527)
• Handle files with trailing dots in their basename (#7315)
• Fix unnecessary allocations via StaticFileReader (#7572)
• Don't check if site URL is absolute if it is nil (#7498)
• Avoid unnecessary duplication of pages array (#7272)
• Memoize Site#post_attr_hash (#7276)
• Memoize Document#excerpt_separator (#7569)
• Optimize Document::DATE_FILENAME_MATCHER to match valid filenames (#7292)
• Escape valid special chars in a site's path name (#7568)
• Replace name in Page#inspect with relative_path (#7434)
• Log a warning when the slug is empty (#7357)
• Push Markdown link refs to excerpt only as required (#7577)
• Fix broken include_relative usage in excerpt (#7633)
• Initialize and reset glob_cache only as necessary (#7658)
• Revert memoizing Site#docs_to_write and #documents (#7684)
• Backport #7684 for v3.8.x: Revert memoizing Site#docs_to_write and refactor #documents (#7689)
• Backport #7213 and #7633 for v3.8.x: Fix broken include_relative usage in excerpt (#7690)
• Don't read symlinks in site.include in safe mode (#7711)
• Replace String#=~ with String#match? (#7723)
• Update log output for an invalid theme directory (#7679)

Minor Enhancements

• Enhance --blank scaffolding (#7310)
• Fix custom 404 page for GitHub pages (#7132)
• Load config file from within current theme-gem (#7304)
• Use jekyll-compose if installed (#6932)
• Suggest re-running command with --trace on fail (#6551)
• Support for binary operators in where_exp filter (#6998)
• Automatically load _config.toml (#7299)
• Add vendor folder to a newly installed site's .gitignore (#6968)
• Output Jekyll Version while debugging (#7173)
• Memoize computing excerpt's relative_path (#6951)
• Skip processing posts that can not be read (#7302)
• Memoize the return value of Site#documents (#7273)
• Cache globbed paths in front matter defaults (#7345)
• Cache computed item property (#7301)
• Cleanup Markdown converter (#7519)
• Disable Liquid via front matter (#6824)
• Do not process Liquid in post excerpt when disabled in front matter (#7146)
• Liquefied link tag (#6269)
• Update item_property to return numbers as numbers instead of strings (#6608)
• Use .markdown extension for page templates (#7126)
• Add support for *.xhtml files (#6854)
• Allow i18n v0.9.5 and higher (#7044)
• Ignore permission error of /proc/version (#7267)
• Strip extra slashes via Jekyll.sanitized_path (#7182)
• Site template: remove default config for markdown (#7285)
• Add a custom inspect string for StaticFile objects (#7422)
• Remind user to include gem in the Gemfile on error (#7476)
• Search Front matter defaults for Page objects with relative_path (#7261)
• Configure cache_dir (#7232)
• Lock use of tzinfo gem to v1.x (#7521, #7562)
• Utilize absolute paths of user-provided file paths (#7450)
• ISO week date drops (#5981)
• Detect nil and empty values in objects with where filter (#7580)
• Initialize mutations for Drops only if necessary (#7657)
• Reduce Array allocations via Jekyll::Cleaner (#7659)
• Encode and unencode urls only as required (#7654)
• Reduce string allocations with better alternatives (#7643)
• Reduce allocations from Jekyll::Document instances (#7625)
• Add type attribute to Document instances (#7406)
• Reduce allocations from where-filter (#7653)
• Memoize SiteDrop#documents to reduce allocations (#7697)
• Add PathManager class to cache interim paths (#7732)
• Remove warnings and fixes for deprecated config (#7440)

Development Fixes

• Use communicative method parameters (#7566)
• Scan assert_equal methods and rectify any offenses with a custom RuboCop cop (#7130)
• Add a script to profile docs with CI (#7540)
• Test with Ruby 2.6 on AppVeyor (#7518)
• Update gemspec (#7425)
• Upgrade liquid-c to v4.0 (#7375)
• Bump RuboCop to v0.63.x (#7489)
• Bump RuboCop to v0.62.x (#7449)
• Bump RuboCop to v0.61.x (#7401)
• Bump RuboCop to v0.60.x (#7338)
• Bump RuboCop to v0.59.0 (#7237)
• Bump RuboCop to v0.57.x (#7078)
• Relax version constraint on classifier-reborn gem (#7471)
• Test with Ruby v2.6 (#7438)
• Create symlink only if target is accessible (#7429)
• Test with oldest and latest Ruby only (#7412)
• Switch to :install_if for wdm gem (#7372)
• Update excludes for CodeClimate Analyses (#7365)
• CI(Appveyor): shallow clone with 5 last commits (#7312)
• update yajl-ruby (#7278)
• Add cucumber feature to test include_relative tag (#7213)
• Small benchmark refactoring (#7211)
• Lock Travis to Bundler-1.16.2 (#7144)
• Fix incorrectly passed arguments to assert_equal (#7134)
• fix up refute_equal call (#7133)
• Fix RuboCop offences in test files (#7128)
• Use assert_include (#7093)
• Remember to release docs gem (#7066)
• Update RuboCop's config (#7050)
• Useless privates removed (#6768)
• Load Rouge for TestKramdown (#7007)
• yajl-ruby update to v1.4.0 (#6976)
• Update instructions for releasing docs Gem (#6975)
• We are not using Ruby 2.2 anymore (#6977)
• Remove unnecessary Jekyll::Page constant (#6770)
• Remove unused error class (#6511)
• Add a Cucumber feature for post_url tag (#7586)
• Bump tested version of JRuby to 9.2.7.0 (#7612)
• Generate a "TOTAL" row for build-profile table (#7614)
• Target Ruby 2.4 syntax in RuboCop scans (#7583)
• Bump RuboCop to v0.68.x (#7637)
• Refactor Jekyll::Cache (#7532)
• Store list of expected extnames in a constant (#7638)
• Bump RuboCop to v0.69.x (#7656)
• Profile allocations from a build session (#7646)
• Update small typo in contributing.md (#7671)
• Bump RuboCop to v0.70.x (#7678)
• Remove override to Jekyll::Document#respond_to? (#7695)
• Do not install docs on updating gems on Travis (#7706)
• Update TestTags in sync with Rouge v3.4 (#7709)
• Bump RuboCop to v0.71.0 (#7687)
• Use regexp to filter special entries (#7702)
• Reduce Array objects generated from utility method (#7749)
• Update mime.types (#7756)
• Replace redundant Array#map with Array#each (#7761)
• Fix: rubocop offenses (#7769)

Documentation

• Add Installation Instructions for Ubuntu (#6925)
• add liquid tag jekyll-flickr (#6946)
• Updated copy - fixed casing of SaaS on resources page. (#6949)
• Do not advise users to install Jekyll outside of Bundler (#6927)
• Don't prompt for sudo when installing with Ubuntu WSL (#6781)
• Fix typo (#6969)
• Add version number for group_by_exp doc (#6956)
• Update Windows install docs (#6926)
• Remove documentation for using Redcarpet (#6990)
• Updated nginx configuration for custom-404-page documentation (#6994)
• List all static files variables (#7002)
• Document that _drafts need to be contained within the custom collection directory (#6985)
• Change for passive voice. (#7005)
• Added the CAT plugin to the plugin list (#7011)
• Updated to supported version (#7031)
• Clarify definition of 'draft' (#7037)
• Listed the jekyll-target-blank plugin in plugins list. (#7046)
• Typo (#7058)
• Add Hints for some Improved Travis Config in Doc (#7049)
• Added plugin json-get. (#7086)
• Update travis-ci.md to point out "this is an example Gemfile" (#7089)
• Adding jekyll-info plugin (#7091)
• GitHub enables you to use themes from other repos (#7112)
• Updates to CODE OF CONDUCT (v1.4.0) (#7105)
• Instructions to view theme’s files under Linux (#7095)
• Add jekyll-xml-source (#7114)
• Add the jekyll-firstimage filter plugin (#7127)
• Use a real theme in the example (#7125)
• Update docs about post creation (#7138)
• Add DEV Community's Jekyll tag to community page (#7139)
• Initialize upgrading doc for v4.0 (#7140)
• Add version badge for date filters with ordinal (#7162)
• Add closing tags for <a> (#7163)
• Add TSV to list of supported _data files. (#7168)
• Corrected sample usage of postfiles (#7181)
• Add missing html end tag for code example in section 'For loops' (#7199)
• Resolve "Unable to locate package ruby2.4" error (#7196)
• Installation instructions for Fedora (#7198)
• New docs (#7205)
• List all standard liquid filters (#7333)
• Correct stylesheet url in tutorial step 7 (#7210)
• Add some minor improvements to image loading in Showcase page (#7214)
• Fix minor grammatical error (#7215)
• Add developer.spotify.com to the Jekyll Showcase (#7217)
• Removes quotes from markdown for assets (#7223)
• Clarified front matter requirement (#7234)
• Minor whitespace fixes (#7238)
• Explicit location of where to create blog.html (#7241)
• Fix a small grammar error/typo in the docs (#7260)
• Reference the build command options that allows multiple config files (#7266)
• Update 10-deployment.md (#7268)
• Add more issue template(s) and pull request template (#7269)
• Suggest sites use OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS for their site's CI (#7010)
• Fix broken Contributors link in README.markdown (#7200)
• Add title tag to item in RSS template (#7282)
• More inclusive writing (#7283)
• Document converter methods (#7289)
• Add link tag to item in RSS template (#7291)
• Add Isomer to showcase (#7300)
• Added missing semicolon (#7306)
• "This restricts you..." to "This restricts your" (#7307)
• Add a link to Giraffe Academy's tutorial (#7325)
• Grammar correction (#7327)
• Document Jekyll Filters with YAML data (#7335)
• Remove redundant instruction comment (#7342)
• Minimize rendering count (#7343)
• Update posts.md (#7360)
• Add info how to deploy using pre-push git hook (#7179)
• Textile is only supported through a converter plugin (#7003)
• Add documentation for custom tag blocks (#7359)
• Added 99inbound's Jekyll post to form resources (#7348)
• Document page.dir and page.name (#7373)
• Remove installation instructions with Homebrew (#7381)
• Fix dead link and misleading prose (#7383)
• Fix content management section (#7385)
• Proposed re-wording of Sass note. :) (#7392)
• Apply ruby official guide documents (#7393)
• Fix group_by_exp filter example (#7394)
• Adjust team page listings (#7395)
• Update resources.md (#7396)
• Update resources.md (#7397)
• Remove alt attribute from a tags (#7407)
• Fix grammatical error in permalinks.md (#7409)
• Fix BASH code-block in ubuntu.md (#7420)
• zlib is missing (#7428)
• Include docs for {{ page.collection }} (#7430)
• Permalink docs typo fixes (#7459)
• Fixed unnecessary aticles and pronouns (#7466)
• Grammatical correction (#7464)
• Update resources.md (#7472)
• Store SSL key and cert in site source (#7473)
• Minor doc fixes (#7495)
• Changed order of steps (#7503)
• Hosting with AWS Amplify (#7510)
• Fix typo in tutorial for converting existing site (#7524)
• Add CloudSh to resource page. (#7497)
• Check if var exists before include tag (#7530)
• Added formX to form-backend resources (#7536)
• Clarify docs on collections regarding the need for front matter (#7538)
• Fix incorrect Windows path in themes.md (#7525)
• Document where Jekyll looks for layouts in a site (#7564)
• Mention CommonMark plugins (#7418)
• Addresses bundle not found. (#7351)
• Example of CircleCI deployment through CircleCI v2 (#7024)
• v4.0 development post (#6934)
• Release post for v3.8.0 (#6849)
• Release Post for v3.6.3, v3.7.4 and v3.8.4 (#7259)
• Adds Statictastic to the list of resources (#7593)
• Update 07-assets.md (#7599)
• Fix link space (#7600)
• Added Formspark to form resources (#7601)
• Simplify couple of includes in the docs site (#7607)
• Avoid generating empty classnames (#7610)
• Install Docs that Work on MacOS 10.14 (#7561)
• Update the contribution docs for draft pull requests (#7619)
• Doc: Data file section adds TSV (#7640)
• Indicate where the _sass folder is by default (#7644)
• Docs: add version tags to new placeholders (#5981) for permalinks (#7647)
• Solve "GitHub Page build failure" in 10-deployment.md (#7648)
• Fix typo from 'Github' to 'GitHub' (#7691)
• fix link to Site Source config (#7708)
• Add Jekpack to resources page (#7598)
• Introduce frontmatter in step 2 (#7704)
• Add recursive navigation tutorial (#7720)
• Fix misspelling of "additional" (#7764)
• docs: improve how to include rouge stylesheets (#7752)

Site Enhancements

• Add @ashmaroli to Core Team listing (#7398)
• Lnk to Tidelift in site's footer (#7377)
• Link to OpenCollective backing (#7378
• Link to sponsor listing in README (#7405)
• Better Performance (#7388)
• Simplify assigning classname to docs' aside-links (#7609)

release

• Release v4.0.0.pre.alpha1 (#7574)
• Prepare Jekyll 4.0.0 beta1 (#7716)