I do my best to keep this site running on the latest released version (or dot-release, as the case may be) of the Hugo static site generator (SSG). So it was with a bit of abashment when I realized that it had been nearly a year since I’d written anything about some of the changes which have come in Hugo’s various releases. In this post, I’ll make amends for that by going through all the releases which have occurred in the interim.
The last full Hugo release I covered here was v.0.114.0, released 2023-06-19. As I wrote the next day, v.0.114.0 fixed an issue which had arisen from a major change in the Dart Sass repository.
From there, I have remained mum on changes and updates in Hugo itself, so let’s get to work fixing that right now. (By the way: to be consistent with what follows, let’s note that v.0.114.0 had one subsequent dot-release.)
v.0.115.0
Released 2023-06-29, v.0.115.0 allowed permalink configuration for section and taxonomy pages.
Subsequent dot-releases: four.
v.0.116.0
Hugo v.0.116.0 first appeared 2023-07-31. Its two most noteworthy changes were the default location of cacheDir, where Hugo stores its file caches, and enabling the where logical function to support regular expressions with a newly added like operator.
Subsequent dot-releases: one.
v.0.117.0
Coming only a week later on 2023-08-07, v.0.117.0 introduced a new .Page.RenderShortcodes method.1
Subsequent dot-releases: none.
v.0.118.0
The major enhancement that v.0.118.0 (2023-08-31) provided was proper support in Markdown for CJK characters. The release also made welcome improvements to how one creates either a new site or a new theme.
Subsequent dot-releases: two — most notably v.0.118.2, also from 2023-08-31, which finished fixing an issue that v.0.118.0 had introduced regarding building on either Netlify or Vercel.
v.0.119.0
Some important Go security fixes constituted the main driver behind the 2023-09-24 release of v.0.119.0. However, it also included a couple of additions to Hugo’s image-processing powers: a .Process method and filter (which proved useful for many Hugo commands relating to image processing); and an .Opacity filter.
Subsequent dot-releases: none.
v.0.120.0
Hugo v.0.120.0, released 2023-10-30, was mainly a full refresh of its many dependencies; but it also included another new image-processing filter (.Padding) as well as a new debug.Timer function, for use in development, to seek out bottlenecks in templates’ performance.
Subsequent dot-releases: four.
v.0.121.0
Primarily a bug-fixing and dependencies-updating release, v.0.121.0 appeared 2023-12-05.
Subsequent dot-releases: two.
v.0.122.0
For those who’d long wanted to see Hugo work with LaTex or Tex typesetting in Markdown, v.0.122.0 (2024-01-26) finally gave them that capability.
Subsequent dot-releases: one.
v.0.123.0: the “million-pages release”
Hugo’s Bjørn Erik Pedersen had hinted for some months on the Hugo Discourse forum that he was working on a souped-up version of the SSG, one he was nicknaming the “million-pages release.” It was first shown to us unwashed masses 2024-02-19 as v.0.123.0. The nickname came mainly from how the new version would keep large items from slowing it down, by shifting them out of memory when they weren’t in use.
Pedersen had indicated in advance that the “million-pages release” would include some breaking changes, and the v.0.123.0 release notes also said the release was “a rewrite of the Hugo core.” It’s therefore not surprising that it had eight subsequent dot-releases to fix the inevitable bugs that one must expect after such a significant release.
v.0.124.0
Compared to its more attention-getting predecessor, v.0.124.0 (2024-03-16) was a pretty quiet release that dealt mainly with a Go security fix and configuration of segments in template rendering.
Subsequent dot-releases: one.
v.0.125.0
Finally, we come to what is the current major version as of when I first issued this post: Hugo v.0.125.0, released 2024-04-16. It added two nerdily interesting new templating features and a new Luminance method for assessing an image’s colors.
Subsequent dot-releases: six as of the initial issuance of this post.
All righty, then. I apologize for my laxness in staying up with Hugo’s progress over the last year, particularly since it’s what makes this site “Go” (pardon the pun). I’ll try to do better in the future.
For an example of the type of problem the method was intended to solve, see this thread from the Hugo Discourse forum. ↩︎
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