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2022 October, 20

Series Elements

This is part 7 in a 8-part series:

  • 2023-04-19 · Part 1 · Jekyll FAQ
  • 2023-02-22 · Part 2 · Jekyll Templates 2023
  • 2023-02-08 · Part 3 · Jekyll Knowledge 2023
  • 2023-01-22 · Part 4 · Jekyll V4 2023 January Update
  • 2022-10-28 · Part 5 · Jekyll V5 Planned Release
  • 2022-10-26 · Part 6 · Jekyll V4 2022 October Update
  • 2022-10-20 · Part 7 · Jekyll V4 2022 October Version
  • 2021-12-01 · Part 8 · Jekyll Is Dead
Features and fixes

In October September 2022, a current version, 4.3.0 was released. The shipping comes with some really valueable improvements and bug-fixes.

In October September 2022, a current version, 4.3.0 was released. The shipping comes with some really valueable improvements and bug-fixes.

The full list of changes are available at the history board of Jekyll Version 4.3.0 if you are interested.

Fixes

Some noteworthy bug-fixes include:

  • Respect BUNDLE_GEMFILE when loading Jekyll plugins via Bundler.

  • Prevent loading versions older than kramdown-2.3.1 as a security measure.

  • Trigger livereloading even if the site has no pages.

  • Ensure the expected class of theme config is returned following a merger.

  • Enable BOM encoding only if configured encoding is UTF-8.

  • Respect server protocol while injecting livereload script.

  • The table output for --profile stops printing incorrect TOTALS row.

Improvements

Find the most important improvements of the Jekyll engine for version 4.3.0 with the following sections.

Dependencies

  • The Gem webrick is now a listed dependency. You no longer need to add the gem for Webrick to your Gemfile when using Jekyll with Ruby 3.0 or newer.

  • You may now use Rouge v4 or continue using Rouge v3.x by explicitly mentioning the version in your Gemfile.

  • Support for gem tzinfo v2 and non-half-hour offsets have been added.

  • You’ll be able to use v3 of the plugin jekyll-sass-converter when it ships.

Builds

  • Added support for bundling and loading data files from within a theme-gem similar to existing theme-gem contents.

  • Changes to data files at source will now be respected during incremental builds.

  • site.static_files now include static files within a collection.

  • You may now configure converters for CSV data.

  • .jekyll-cache or its equivalent custom cache directory will be automatically ignored by Git.

  • Vendor the current latest mime-types dataset for use with local development server.

Liquid Templates

  • basename attribute of documents are now exposed to Liquid as name, for example 2022-10-20-jekyll-release-4-3-0.adoc. Excerpts delegate to associated document attribute.

  • Top-level variable Jekyll::Drops::ThemeDrop introduced to expose gemspec details of theme-gem (valid only when using theme-gem).