Minor Enhancements
- serve: add support for ECC certificates (#7768)
- Update item_property to recognize integers (#7878)
- Include _config.yml in a new theme's gemspec (#7865)
- Add an option to easily disable disk-cache (#7928)
- Optimize markdown parsing with Kramdown by reusing the options and parser objects (#8013)
- Add PageDrop to provide Liquid templates with data (#7992)
- Optimize
Kramdown::JekyllDocument#to_htmlcalls (#8041) - Reduce Jekyll::Renderer instances during a build (#7570)
- Configure default language for syntax-highlighting (#8035)
- Remove dev dependencies from new theme-gem gemspec (#8042)
- Allow disabling import of theme configuration (#8131)
- Allow excerpts to be generated for Page objects (#7642)
- Profile various stages of a site's build process (#6760)
- Add find filters to optimize where-first chains (#8171)
- Make number_of_words respect CJK characters (#7813)
- Initialize static files' data hash only if needed (#8188)
Bug Fixes
- Memoize absolute_url and relative_url filters (#7793)
- Fix documentation comment for Jekyll::Converters::Identity (#7883)
- Optimize Jekyll::Filters#item_property (#7696)
- Allow multiple binary operators in where_exp filter (#8047)
- Fix documents custom-ordering logic (#8028)
- Use
layout.pathwhen rendering the Liquid layout (#8069) - Reduce array allocations from
StaticFile#path(#8083) - Simplify
Jekyll::Renderer#validate_layout(#8064) - Add static file's basename to its url_placeholder (#7908)
- Clear cached Liquid template scope before render (#7967)
- Add slugified_categories URL placeholder (#8094)
- Cache URLFilter results of string inputs per site (#7990)
- Use platforms instead of install_if (#8140)
- Config include trailing slash (#8113)
- Allow extensionless document in a strict site (#7950)
- Improve path normalization in liquid_renderer (#8075)
- Switch slugify regex to support more Unicode character groups (#8167)
- Check if entry is a directory once per enumerator (#8177)
- Filter out exclusively excluded entries sooner (#7482)