.. title: Nikola v8.1.2 is out! .. slug: nikola-v812-is-out .. date: 2020-11-15 13:35:00 UTC .. tags: nikola, planet, python, programming, release .. author: Chris Warrick .. category: .. link: .. description: .. type: text On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v8.1.2. This release has a bunch of new features, fixes some bugs, and improves compatibility with some dependencies and Windows. What is Nikola? =============== Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python. It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown — and can even turn Jupyter Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image galleries, and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds are extremely fast, courtesy of doit (which is rebuilding only what has been changed). Find out more at the website: https://getnikola.com/ Downloads ========= Install using ``pip install Nikola``. Changes ======= Features -------- * Support for multiple authors per post — comma-separated, enabled by ``MULTIPLE_AUTHORS_PER_POST`` setting (Issue #3252) * Add ``navbar_custom_bg`` theme option to ``bootstrap4`` and document options for ``bootstrap4`` better (Issue #3443) * Add Marathi translation * Restore ``caps`` typogrify filter (wraps strings of capital letters with ```` (via Issue #3405) * Improve ``nikola auto`` performance with rate-limiting, support ``-n`` argument to pass to ``nikola build`` (Issue #3401) * Add support for the `Utterances `_ comment system Bugfixes -------- * Fix previewimages (post- and root-relative) in bootblog4/galleries featured posts for non-server-root sites (Issue #3471) * Windows: Also fix symlinks when installing from source with pip; if possible, enable Developer Mode and run ``git config --global core.symlinks true`` before cloning the Nikola repo * Fix clicking on links to image files. baguetteBox now requires a link (````) to have an ```` as a child in order to make the link activate the lightbox. (Issue #3472) * Fix ``LINK_CHECK_WHITELIST`` having issues due to mixing Unicode and bytestrings (Issue #3466) * Add support for ``nbconvert>=6.0.0`` (Issue #3457) * Read files as utf-8-sig to allow BOM in input files * Don’t break slugs with slashes in ``doc`` directive (Issue #3450) * Avoid warnings from type annotations in ``auto`` caused by missing ``aiohttp`` (Issue #3451) * Ensure query strings and fragments are kept with ``URL_TYPE = "full_path"`` (Issue #3448) * Don’t run typogrify filters on ```` tag to avoid adding extra tags (Issue #3405) * Fix handling of duplicate plugins on Windows * Allow else clause in post-list plugin. (Issue #3436) * Ensure ``type`` metadata value from plugins is preserved (Issue 3445) * Fix path handlers with slashes on Windows