.. title: Nikola v8.2.1 is out!
.. slug: nikola-v821-is-out
.. date: 2022-04-23 15:23:28 UTC
.. tags: nikola, planet, python, programming, release
.. author: Chris Warrick
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On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Nikola v8.2.1. This is a minor release with a couple
new features, as well as fixes for compatibility with the latest
version of doit.

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
--------

* 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
--------

* 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``.