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blogdown

MARKETING
Velocity0.0

Create static websites and blogs from R Markdown using Hugo

github.com/rstudio/blogdown ↗

blogdown's release notes have become a running log of Hugo's breaking changes.

static site generationhugor markdowncompatibility maintenancetoolchain churn
◆Current state
blogdown builds Hugo websites from R Markdown. Nearly every entry in the visible window reacts to something changed upstream: Hugo's installer format, its YAML logical parsing, its server flags, or xfun's internals. The package's own feature surface has been stable across the whole period.
◆Where it's heading
This is a compatibility-maintenance line rather than a development one. The maintainer absorbs churn from two upstreams at once, Hugo and the xfun/knitr toolchain, and occasionally narrows scope to keep that tractable, as with dropping HugoBlox themes from testing in 1.22. The macOS work in 1.23 shows the cost rising: Hugo's new .pkg installer requires a sudo password, so blogdown can no longer fully automate installation there.
◆Prediction
Expect the next release to track another Hugo change. The macOS .pkg path is the most likely place for follow-up, since the support just added cannot be automated.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Fix for a breaking system3() change in xfun

    A one-line fix for a breaking change in xfun's system3(). Pure downstream repair, characteristic of the recent release line.

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  2. 6mo ago

    macOS Hugo .pkg installers supported

    Adds support for Hugo's .pkg installers on macOS after Hugo abandoned tarballs at v0.153.0, and teaches hugo_installers() about withdeploy builds. Notably, the .pkg path needs a password, so installation is no longer fully automatable on macOS.

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  3. 9mo ago

    HugoBlox themes untested; YAML logicals now true/false

    Two consequences of upstream drift: HugoBlox themes are dropped from testing and no longer guaranteed to work, and YAML metadata now writes true/false because Hugo v0.152.0 stopped accepting yes/no. A deliberate narrowing of supported surface.

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  4. 1y ago

    hugo server now uses --renderToMemory by default

    Makes --renderToMemory the default for Hugo 0.123.0 and above when starting the preview server, with documented escape hatches. A contributed change to preview speed rather than to output.

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  5. 1y ago

    wowchemy themes redirected to HugoBlox

    Redirects the wowchemy theme references to HugoBlox and drops a soon-to-be-removed xfun::attr() call. Bookkeeping ahead of the theme support being dropped entirely two releases later.

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  6. 2y ago

    Fix shortcode mangling with raw HTML blocks

    Fixes shortcodes being mangled when R Markdown output contains raw HTML blocks. A contributed single-issue repair.

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