This is the most significant update to Hugo ever! It contains contributions from dozens of contributors and represents hundreds of features, fixes and improvements.

Major New Features

• New command based interface similar to git (hugo server -s ./)
• Amber template support
• Full Windows support
• Better index support including ordering by content weight
• Add params to site config, available in .Site.Params from templates
• Support for html & xml content (with front matter support)
• Support for top level pages (in addition to homepage)

Notable Fixes and Additions

• Friendlier json support
• Aliases (redirects)
• Support for summary content divider (`

`)

• HTML & shortcodes supported in summary (when using divider)
• Complete overhaul of the documentation site
• Added “Minutes to Read” functionality
• Support for a custom 404 page
• Cleanup of how content organization is handled
• Loads of unit and performance tests
• Integration with Travis CI
• Static directory now watched and copied on any addition or modification
• Support for relative permalinks
• Fixed watching being triggered multiple times for the same event
• Watch now ignores temp files (as created by Vim)
• Configurable number of posts on homepage
• Front matter supports multiple types (int, string, date, float)
• Indexes can now use a default template
• Addition of truncated bool to content to determine if should show ‘more’ link
• Support for linkTitles
• Better handling of most errors with directions on how to resolve
• Support for more date / time formats
• Support for Go 1.2
• Loads more… see commit log for full list.