.. link: .. description: I am thrilled to announce the immediate release of Nikola version 6.0.0 .. tags: .. date: 2013/09/07 18:21:22 .. title: Version 6.0.0 Released! .. slug: version-600-released I am thrilled to announce the immediate release of Nikola version 6.0.0. This is a major feature release. If you have an existing site, you will get a number of warnings about deprecated options. Don't worry, things most likely will still work, and you can take your time fixing them. Some of the new features are described in a series of blog posts: `1 <http://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/new-in-nikola-v6-typography.html>`_ `2 <http://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/new-in-nikola-v6-part-ii-we-love-javascript.html>`_ `3 <http://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/new-in-nikola-v6-iii-comment-alternatives.html>`_ `4 <http://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/new-in-nikola-v6-part-iv-awesome-auto-mode.html>`_ `5 <http://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/new-in-nikola-v6-part-v-less-is-more.html>`_ Here is the (probably incomplete) changelog: Features -------- * Deprecated post_compilers for COMPILERS (Issue #601) * Replaced post_pages option with POSTS and PAGES (Issue #601) * Support for bootswatch in boostrap 2 and 3 (Issue #599) * New ADDITIONAL_METADATA option to set extra metadata on all posts. * All reStructuredText extensions are now plugins (Issue #621) * New multiple comment system support (Issue #606, #634) * Deprecated DISQUS_FORUM option for COMMENT_SYSTEM_ID * New COMMENT_SYSTEM option to change comment systems, defaults to disqus * New bootstrap3 theme (by areski) * Added docs/upgrading-to-v6.txt for upgrade tips. * Theme cleanup (Issue #599) * Support for nested navigation links (Issue #104) * New media directive for reStructuredText (Issue #608) * New DEPLOY_DRAFTS and DEPLOY_FUTURE options (Issue #583) * New Dutch translation * Optional hyphenation (HYPHENATE option, Issue #576) * Made AddThis support replaceable through new SOCIAL_BUTTONS_CODE option. * categories * Added a FUTURE_IS_NOW option for publishing future-dated posts now (Issues #486, #577) * New typogrify filter (Issue #576) * New COPY_SOURCES option, defaults to True (Issue #544) * Customizable Read More (Issues #412, #533, #574) * Support for LESS/RECESS CSS compilers * Updated to Colorbox 1.4.27 * New pandoc compiler. * Separate slides.tmpl template so that non-bootstrap themes can support them. * New ADDITIONAL_METADATA option to specify metadata to include in the new_post command, alongside with the defaults (Issue #622) * Schedule new posts automatically by specifying an iCal recursive rule as SCHEDULE_RULE (Issue #602) Bugfixes -------- * Added missing rel="self" link suggested by feedvalidator.org (Issue #264) * Switched to semantic versioning (Issue #614) * Better figure styling (Issue #626) * Switched docutils math rendering to MathJax (Issue #620) * Refactored crumb bar into a separate tmpl to avoid code duplication (Issue #612) * Fix broken config dep for tags when NAVIGATION_LINKS is not set (Issue #610) * Fixed bundles in base theme * Deprecated ANALYTICS, replaced with BODY_END (Issue #601) * Deprecated SIDEBAR_LINKS, replaced with NAVIGATION_LINKS (Issue #104 #601) * Solve site theme's navbar overlapping Issues (Issue #585) * Deprecated ADD_THIS_BUTTONS option. * Show warning if unable to thumbnail an image (Issue #551) * Use absolute URLs in feeds (Issue #590) * Fix for mincss path munging (Issues #570 #589) * Added missing dependency in gallery indexes (Issue #536) * Anchors in listings had wrong filename slugs * Only warn about incomplete translations once (Issue #580) * Right-align image title in colorbox to avoid overlapping so much (Mentioned in Issue #570) * Added LICENSE in the footer (Issue #528) * Use random IDs for slides so you can have more than one in a page (Issue #572)