# nanoc news
## 3.1.3 (???)
- Removed annoying win32console warning [Eric Sunshine]
- Removed color codes when not writing to a terminal, or when writing to
Windows’ console when win32console is not installed [Eric Sunshine]
- Added .xhtml and .xml to list of text extensions
- Improved support for relative Sass @imports [Chris Eppstein]
## 3.1.2 (2010-04-07)
- Fixed bug which could cause incorrect output when compilation of an item is
delayed due to an unmet dependency
## 3.1.1 (2010-04-05)
- Sass `@import`s now work for files not managed by nanoc
- Rake tasks now have their Unicode description decomposed if necessary
## 3.1 (2010-04-03)
New:
- An `Item#rep_named(name)` function for quickly getting a certain rep
- An `Item#compiled_content` function for quickly getting compiled content
- An `Item#path` function for quickly getting the path of an item rep
- A new “+” wildcard in rule patterns that matches one or more characters
- A `view` command that starts a web server in the output directory
- A `debug` command that shows information about the items, reps and layouts
- A `kramdown` filter ([kramdown site](kramdown.rubyforge.org/))
- A diff between the previously compiled content and the last compiled
content is now written to `output.diff` if the `enable_output_diff` site
configuration attribute is true
- Assigns, such as `@items`, `@layouts`, `@item`, … are accessible without
`@`
- Support for binary items
Changed:
- New sites now come with a stylesheet item instead of a `style.css` file in
the output directory
- The `deploy:rsync` task now use sensible default options
- The `deploy:rsync` task now accepts a config environment variable
- The `deploy:rsync` task now uses a lowercase `dry_run` environment variable
- The `maruku` filter now accepts parameters
- The `rainpress` filter now accepts parameters
- The `filesystem` data source is now known as `filesystem_verbose`
- Meta files and content files are now optional
- The `filesystem_compact` and `filesystem_combined` data sources have been
merged into a new `filesystem_unified` data source
- The metadata section in `filesystem_unified` is now optional [Christopher
Eppstein]
- The `—server` autocompile option is now known as `—handler`
- Assigns in filters are now available as instance variables and methods
- The `breadcrumbs_trail` function now allows missing parents
- The `sass` filter now properly handles `@import` dependencies
Deprecated:
- `Nanoc3::FileProxy`; use one of the filename attributes instead
- `ItemRep#content_at_snapshot`; use `compiled_content` instead
- The `last_fm`, `delicious` and `twitter` data sources; fetch online content
into a cache by a rake task and load data from this cache instead
## 3.0.9 (2010-02-24)
- Fixed 1.8.x parsing bug due to lack of parens which could cause
“undefined method `to_iso8601_time` for #<String:0x…>” errors
## 3.0.8 (2010-02-24)
- `atom_tag_for` now works with base_urls that contain a path [Eric Sunshine]
- Generated root URLs in `atom_feed` now end with a slash [Eric Sunshine]
- Autocompiler now recognises requests to index files
- `Blogging` helper now allows created_at to be a Time instance
## 3.0.7 (2010-01-29)
- Fixed bug which could cause layout rules not be matched in order
## 3.0.6 (2010-01-17)
- Error checking in `filesystem_combined` has been improved [Brian Candler]
- Generated HTML files now have a default encoding of UTF-8
- Periods in identifiers for layouts now behave correctly
- The `relativize_paths` filter now correctly handles “/” [Eric Sunshine]
## 3.0.5 (2010-01-12)
- Restored pre-3.0.3 behaviour of periods in identifiers. By default, a file
can have multiple extensions (e.g. `content/foo.html.erb` will have the
identifier `/foo/`), but if `allow_periods_in_identifiers` in the site
configuration is true, a file can have only one extension (e.g.
`content/blog/stuff.entry.html` will have the identifier
`/blog/stuff.entry/`).
## 3.0.4 (2010-01-07)
- Fixed a bug which would cause the `filesystem_compact` data source to
incorrectly determine the content filename, leading to weird “Expected 1
content file but found 3” errors [Eric Sunshine]
## 3.0.3 (2010-01-06)
- The `Blogging` helper now properly handles item reps without paths
- The `relativize_paths` filter now only operates inside tags
- The autocompiler now handles escaped paths
- The `LinkTo` and `Tagging` helpers now output escaped HTML
- Fixed `played_at` attribute assignment in the `LastFM` data source for
tracks playing now, and added a `now_playing` attribute [Nicky Peeters]
- The `filesystem_*` data sources can now handle dots in identifiers
- Required enumerator to make sure `enum_with_index` always works
- `Array#stringify_keys` now properly recurses
## 3.0.2 (2009-11-07)
- Children-only identifier patterns no longer erroneously also match parent
(e.g.` /foo/*/` no longer matches `/foo/`)
- The `create_site` command no longer uses those ugly HTML entities
- Install message now mentions the IRC channel
## 3.0.1 (2009-10-05)
- The proper exception is now raised when no matching compilation rules can
be found
- The autocompile command no longer has a duplicate `—port` option
- The `url_for` and `feed_url` methods now check the presence of the
`base_url` site configuration attribute
- Several outdated URLs are now up-to-date
- Error handling has been improved in general
## 3.0 (2009-08-14)
New:
- Multiple data sources
- Dependency tracking between items
- Filters can now optionally take arguments
- `create_page` and `create_layout` methods in data sources
- A new way to specify compilation/routing rules using a Rules file
- A `coderay` filter ([CodeRay site](coderay.rubychan.de/))
- A `filesystem_compact` data source which uses less directories
Changed:
- Pages and textual assets are now known as “items”
Removed:
- Support for drafts
- Support for binary assets
- Support for templates
- Everything that was deprecated in nanoc 2.x
- `save_*`, `move_*` and `delete_*` methods in data sources
- Processing instructions in metadata
## 2.2.2 (2009-05-18)
- Removed `relativize_paths` filter; use `relativize_paths_in_html` or
`relativize_paths_in_css` instead
- Fixed bug which could cause nanoc to eat massive amounts of memory when an
exception occurs
- Fixed bug which would cause nanoc to complain about the open file limit
being reached when using a large amount of assets
## 2.2.1 (2009-04-08)
- Fixed bug which prevented `relative_path_to` from working
- Split `relativize_paths` filter into two filter: `relativize_paths_in_html`
and `relativize_paths_in_css`
- Removed bundled mime-types library
## 2.2 (2009-04-06)
New:
- `—pages` and `—assets` compiler options
- `—no-color` commandline option
- `Filtering` helper
- `relative_path_to` function in `LinkTo` helper
- `rainpress` filter ([Rainpress site](code.google.com/p/rainpress/))
- `relativize_paths` filter
- The current layout is now accessible through the `@layout` variable
- Much more informative stack traces when something goes wrong
Changed:
- The commandline option parser is now a lot more reliable
- `atom_feed` now takes optional `:content_proc`, `:excerpt_proc` and
`:articles` parameters
- The compile command show non-written items (those with `skip_output: true`)
- The compile command compiles everything by default
- Added `—only-outdated` option to compile only outdated pages
Removed:
- deprecated extension-based code
## 2.1.6 (2009-02-28)
- The `filesystem_combined` data source now supports empty metadata sections
- The `rdoc` filter now works for both RDoc 1.x and 2.x
- The autocompiler now serves a 500 when an exception occurs outside
compilation
- The autocompiler no longer serves index files when the request path does
not end with a slash
- The autocompiler now always serves asset content correctly
## 2.1.5 (2009-02-01)
- Added Ruby 1.9 compatibility
- The `filesystem` and `filesystem_combined` data sources now preserve custom
extensions
## 2.1.4 (2008-11-15)
- Fixed an issue where the autocompiler in Windows would serve broken assets
## 2.1.3 (2008-09-27)
- The `haml` and `sass` filters now correctly take their options from assets
- The autocompiler now serves index files instead of 404s
- Layouts named “index” are now handled correctly
- The `filesystem_combined` data source now properly handles assets
## 2.1.2 (2008-09-08)
- The utocompiler now compiles assets as well
- The `sass` filter now takes options (just like the `haml` filter)
- Haml/Sass options are now taken from the page rep instead of the
page
## 2.1.1 (2008-08-18)
- Fixed issue which would cause files not to be required in the right order
## 2.1 (2008-08-17)
This is only a short summary of all changes in 2.1. For details, see the
[nanoc web site](nanoc.stoneship.org/). Especially the
blog and the updated manual will be useful.
New:
- New `rdiscount` filter ([RDiscount site](github.com/rtomayko/rdiscount))
- New `maruku` filter ([Maruku site](maruku.rubyforge.org/))
- New `erubis` filter ([Erubis site](www.kuwata-lab.com/erubis/))
- A better commandline frontend
- A new filesystem data source named `filesystem_combined`
- Routers, which decide where compiled pages should be written to
- Page/layout mtimes can now be retrieved through `page.mtime`/`layout.mtime`
Changed:
- Already compiled pages will no longer be re-compiled unless outdated
- Layout processors and filters have been merged
- Layouts no longer rely on file extensions to determine the layout processor
- Greatly improved source code documentation
- Greatly improved unit test suite
Removed:
## 2.0.4 (2008-05-04)
- Fixed `default.rb`’s `html_escape`
- Updated Haml filter and layout processor so that @page, @pages and @config
are now available as instance variables instead of local variables
## 2.0.3 (2008-03-25)
- The autocompiler now honors custom paths
- The autocompiler now attempts to serve pages with the most appropriate MIME
type, instead of always serving everything as `text/html`
## 2.0.2 (2008-01-26)
- nanoc now requires Ruby 1.8.5 instead of 1.8.6
## 2.0.1 (2008-01-21)
- Fixed a “too many open files” error that could appear during
(auto)compiling
## 2.0 (2007-12-25)
New:
- Support for custom layout processors
- Support for custom data sources
- Database data source
- An auto-compiler
- Pages have `parent` and `children`
Changed:
- The source has been restructured and cleaned up a great deal
- Filters are defined in a different way now
- The `eruby` filter now uses ERB instead of Erubis
Removed:
- The `filters` property; use `filters_pre` instead
- Support for Liquid
## 1.6.2 (2007-10-23)
- Fixed an issue which prevented the content capturing plugin from working
## 1.6.1 (2007-10-14)
- Removed a stray debug message
## 1.6 (2007-10-13)
- Added support for post-layout filters
- Added support for getting a File object for the page, so you can now e.g.
easily get the modification time for a given page (`@page.file.mtime`)
- Cleaned up the source code a lot
- Removed deprecated asset-copying functionality
## 1.5 (2007-09-10)
- Added support for custom filters
- Improved Liquid support — Liquid is now a first-class nanoc citizen
- Deprecated assets — use something like rsync instead
- Added `eruby_engine` option, which can be `erb` or `erubis`
## 1.4 (2007-07-06)
- nanoc now supports ERB (as well as Erubis); Erubis no longer is a
dependency
- `meta.yaml` can now have `haml_options` property, which is passed to Haml
- Pages can now have a `filename` property, which defaults to `index` [Dennis
Sutch]
- Pages now know in what order they should be compiled, eliminating the need
for custom page ordering [Dennis Sutch]
## 1.3.1 (2007-06-30)
- The contents of the `assets` directory are now copied into the output
directory specified in `config.yaml`
## 1.3 (2007-06-24)
## 1.2 (2007-06-05)
- Sites now have an `assets` directory, whose contents are copied to the
`output` directory when compiling [Soryu]
- Added support for non-eRuby layouts (Markaby, Haml, Liquid, …)
- Added more filters (Markaby, Haml, Liquid, RDoc [Dmitry Bilunov])
- Improved error reporting
- Accessing page attributes using instance variables, and not through
`@page`, is no longer possible
- Page attributes can now be accessed using dot notation, i.e. `@page.title`
as well as `@page[:title]`
## 1.1.3 (2007-05-18)
- Fixed bug which would cause layoutless pages to be outputted incorrectly
## 1.1.2 (2007-05-17)
- Backup files (files ending with a “~”) are now ignored
- Fixed bug which would cause subpages not to be generated correctly
## 1.1 (2007-05-08)
- Added support for nested layouts
- Added coloured logging
- `@page` now hold the page that is currently being processed
- Index files are now called “content” files and are now named after the
directory they are in [Colin Barrett]
- It is now possible to access `@page` in the page’s content file
## 1.0.1 (2007-05-05)
- Fixed a bug which would cause a “no such template” error to be
displayed when the template existed but compiling it would raise an
exception
- Fixed bug which would cause pages not to be sorted by order before
compiling
## 1.0 (2007-05-03)