Nikola

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Features
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* Support passing ``--poll`` to ``nikola auto`` to better deal with symlink farms.

Bugfixes
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* Remove insecure HTTP fallback from ``nikola plugin``
* Fix the ``nikola plugin`` command not working (Issue 3736, 3737)
* Fix ``nikola new_post --available-formats`` crashing with TypeError
(Issue 3750)
* Fix the new plugin manager not loading plugins if the plugin folder is a symlink (Issue 3741)
* Fix the ``nikola plugin`` command not working (Issue 3736)
* Remove no longer used leftovers of annotations support (Issue 3764)

Other
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* Nikola now requires Python 3.8 or newer.
* Nikola has adopted a policy for Python version support,
promising support for versions supported by the Python core team,
Ubuntu LTS, or Debian stable, and taking into consideration
Debian oldstable and PyPy.
* Remove polyfill from `polyfill.io`.

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Features
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* Implement a new plugin manager from scratch to replace Yapsy,
which does not work on Python 3.12 due to Python 3.12 carelessly
removing parts of the standard library (Issue 3719)
* Support for Discourse as comment system (Issue 3689)

Bugfixes
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* Fix loading of templates from plugins with ``__init__.py`` files
(Issue 3725)
* Fix margins of paragraphs at the end of sections (Issue 3704)
* Ignore ``.DS_Store`` files in listing indexes (Issue 3698)
* Fix baguetteBox.js invoking in the base theme (Issue 3687)
* Fix development (preview) server ``nikola auto``
for non-root SITE_URL, in particular when URL_TYPE is full_path.
(Issue 3715)

For plugin developers
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Nikola now requires the ``.plugin`` file to contain a ``[Nikola]``
section with a ``PluginCategory`` entry set to the name of the plugin
category class. This was already required by ``plugins.getnikola.com``,
but you may have custom plugins that don’t have this set.

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Features
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* Add a ``-q``, ``--ignore-query-strings`` option to ignore query strings
for internal links, allowing their use for cache busting
* Update reST stylesheets (Issue 3657)
* Add a ``--timeout`` parameter to the ``check`` plugin, defaulting to
30s. (Issue 3643)
* GZIP compression is now deterministic for automatic deploys (Issue 3650)

Bugfixes
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* Fix failures to build with a "Document is empty" error in default themes
(Issue 3679)
* Fix ``PAGE_INDEX`` skipping generation when there exists a conflicting post
* Fix RSS generation of galleries containing WebP images, which caused
an unhandled exception due to not having a known MIME type (Issue 3671)
* Fix ``auto`` command infinite loop (Issue 3677)
* Fix API URL in CSS and JS minifiers (Issue 3658)
* Fix ``:align: center`` for images in reST (Issue 3657)
* ``GZIP_COMMAND`` parsing on ``win32`` platforms (Issue 3649)

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Bugfixes
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* Compatibility with Markdown 3.4.0 (Issue 3635)
* Find substring in string instead of using `contains` in utils
* Don't add semicolon in docinfo fields via CSS (caused duplicated
semicolons)

Nikola now requires Python 3.7 or newer.

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* Compatibility with Pygments 2.12.0 (Issue 3617, 3618)

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Features
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* Add ``emphasize_lines`` directive to code blocks (Issue 3607)
* Gallery index pages support the ``status`` flag (Issue 3598)
* Add ``start_at`` option to youtube directive (Issue 3603)

Bugfixes
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* Add data files to dependency file (Issue 3608)
* Compatibility with doit 0.36.0 (Issue 3612)

Note: ``nikola doit_auto`` is not available if using ``doit>=0.36.0``.
You can still use ``nikola auto``.