Pelican v4.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-11-13 // over 5 years ago
    • Replace develop_server.sh script with pelican --listen
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improved copy/link behavior for large static files (e.g., videos)
    • ๐Ÿ†• New {static} syntax to link to static content; content linked to by
      {static} and {attach} is automatically copied over even if not in
      STATIC_PATHS
    • Pages can now have draft status
    • ๐Ÿ–จ Show current settings via new --print-settings flag
    • New signals: feed_generated and page_generated_write_page
    • Replace Fabric with Invoke and fabfile.py template with tasks.py
    • ๐ŸŒ New ARTICLE_TRANSLATION_ID and PAGE_TRANSLATION_ID settings to
      ๐Ÿ“‡ specify metadata attributes used to identify/disable translations
    • ๐Ÿ“‡ HTML reader now parses multiple occurrences of metadata tags as a list
    • ๐Ÿ†• New Blogger XML backup importer
    • โšก๏ธ Wordpress importer now updates file links to point to local copies if the
      files were downloaded with --wp-attach.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Many bug fixes, tweaks, and other enhancements