Pelican

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* Speed up content generation via new caching mechanism
* Add selective post generation (instead of always building entire site)
* Many documentation improvements, including switching to prettier RtD theme
* Add support for multiple content and plugin paths
* Add ``:modified:`` metadata field to complement ``:date:``.
Used to specify the last date and time an article was updated independently
from the date and time it was published.
* Add support for multiple authors via new ``:authors:`` metadata field
* Watch for changes in static directories when in auto-regeneration mode
* Add filters to limit log output when desired
* Add language support to drafts
* Add ``SLUGIFY_SOURCE`` setting to control how post slugs are generated
* Fix many issues relating to locale and encoding
* Apply Typogrify filter to post summary
* Preserve file metadata (e.g. time stamps) when copying static files to output
* Move AsciiDoc support from Pelican core into separate plugin
* Produce inline links instead of reference-style links when importing content
* Improve handling of ``IGNORE_FILES`` setting behavior
* Properly escape symbol characters in tag names (e.g., ``C++``)
* Minor tweaks for Python 3.4 compatibility
* Add several new signals

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* Drop Python 3.2 support in favor of Python 3.3
* Add ``Fabfile`` so Fabric can be used for workflow automation instead of Make
* ``OUTPUT_RETENTION`` setting can be used to preserve metadata (e.g., VCS
data such as ``.hg`` and ``.git``) from being removed from output directory
* Tumblr import
* Improve logic and consistency when cleaning output folder
* Improve documentation versioning and release automation
* Improve pagination flexibility
* Rename signals for better consistency (some plugins may need to be updated)
* Move metadata extraction from generators to readers; metadata extraction no
longer article-specific
* Deprecate ``FILES_TO_COPY`` in favor of ``STATIC_PATHS`` and
``EXTRA_PATH_METADATA``
* Summaries in Markdown posts no longer include footnotes
* Remove unnecessary whitespace in output via ``lstrip_blocks`` Jinja parameter
* Move PDF generation from core to plugin
* Replace ``MARKUP`` setting with ``READERS``
* Add warning if img tag is missing ``alt`` attribute
* Add support for ``{}`` in relative links syntax, besides ``||``
* Add support for ``{tag}`` and ``{category}`` relative links
* Add a ``content_written`` signal

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* Facilitate inclusion in FreeBSD Ports Collection

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* Support for Python 3!
* Override page save-to location from meta-data (enables using a static page as
the site's home page, for example)
* Time period archives (per-year, per-month, and per-day archives of posts)
* Posterous blog import
* Improve WordPress blog import
* Migrate plugins to separate repository
* Improve HTML parser
* Provide ability to show or hide categories from menu using
``DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_MENU`` option
* Auto-regeneration can be told to ignore files via ``IGNORE_FILES`` setting
* Improve post-generation feedback to user
* For multilingual posts, use meta-data to designate which is the original
and which is the translation
* Add ``.mdown`` to list of supported Markdown file extensions
* Document-relative URL generation (``RELATIVE_URLS``) is now off by default

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* Importer now stores slugs within files by default. This can be disabled with
the ``--disable-slugs`` option.
* Improve handling of links to intra-site resources
* Ensure WordPress import adds paragraphs for all types of line endings
in post content
* Decode HTML entities within WordPress post titles on import
* Improve appearance of LinkedIn icon in default theme
* Add GitHub and Google+ social icons support in default theme
* Optimize social icons
* Add ``FEED_ALL_ATOM`` and ``FEED_ALL_RSS`` to generate feeds containing all
posts regardless of their language
* Split ``TRANSLATION_FEED`` into ``TRANSLATION_FEED_ATOM`` and
``TRANSLATION_FEED_RSS``
* Different feeds can now be enabled/disabled individually
* Allow for blank author: if ``AUTHOR`` setting is not set, author won't
default to ``${USER}`` anymore, and a post won't contain any author
information if the post author is empty
* Move LESS and Webassets support from Pelican core to plugin
* The ``DEFAULT_DATE`` setting now defaults to ``None``, which means that
articles won't be generated unless date metadata is specified
* Add ``FILENAME_METADATA`` setting to support metadata extraction from
filename
* Add ``gzip_cache`` plugin to compress common text files into a ``.gz``
file within the same directory as the original file, preventing the server
(e.g. Nginx) from having to compress files during an HTTP call
* Add support for AsciiDoc-formatted content
* Add ``USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY`` setting so that feature can be toggled on/off
* Support arbitrary Jinja template files
* Restore basic functional tests
* New signals: ``generator_init``, ``get_generators``, and
``article_generate_preread``

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* Refactored the way URLs are handled
* Improved the English documentation
* Fixed packaging using ``setuptools`` entrypoints
* Added ``typogrify`` support
* Added a way to disable feed generation
* Added support for ``DIRECT_TEMPLATES``
* Allow multiple extensions for content files
* Added LESS support
* Improved the import script
* Added functional tests
* Rsync support in the generated Makefile
* Improved feed support (easily pluggable with Feedburner for instance)
* Added support for ``abbr`` in reST
* Fixed a bunch of bugs :-)