Version 2.4 (August 2018)
Release Notes tell you what’s new in Academic. As always, we welcome your feedback. You can also file a bug report. Want to update to this version? Refer to the update guide in conjunction with the parameter changes mentioned in the Breaking Changes section below.
See what’s new in Academic!
Welcome to the second August 2018 release of Academic. There are a number of updates in this version that we hope you will like, including:
- New Search engine
- New Carousel widget (#622)
- Support for Hugo v0.45+
Breaking changes
Here are some considerations to make when updating Academic from the previous version, v2.3.0:
- View changes to
config.toml
- scroll down to the changes for theexampleSite/config.toml
file - Download search.md to your
content/home/search.md
if you wish to enable the new search feature disable_sri
parameter has been deprecated- Setting
highlight_languages
is now only supported inconfig.toml
and not on a per page basis
Content Pages
- Allow a summary to be specified for widget pages (except for the home page which uses the
role
parameter) (#611)- Enable
summary = "your page summary"
to be set in a widget page’s_index.md
. - This metadata will then be used to enrich SEO, social sharing, and Academic’s search engine.
- Enable
- Add support for tags containing spaces
- Fix tag colors when using the dark theme
- Fix case of highlight style not loading, causing code syntax to be incorrectly highlighted (#614)
Plugins
- Add Search widget
- Add Carousel widget (#622)
- About widget: Fix avatar sometimes not showing in Hugo v0.45+
- Talk widget: Add
exclude_selected
option to front matter of talks widget to hide selected talks (#623)- Useful if you are using both the selected talks widget and the recent talks widget
Packaging
- Attempt to load local copy of third party JS/CSS assets if available (#489)
- Allows to create an entirely offline site
- To use, concatenate vendor JS to
static/js/vendor/main.min.js
, concatenate vendor CSS tostatic/css/vendor/main.min.css
, and add fonts tostatic/fonts/
- Theme version is now stored at
themes/academic/data/academic.toml
for those who do not use Git to track Academic’s version - this is useful when updating the theme disable_sri
parameter has been deprecated
Other
- Fix example site (deleted
content/tag/
folder which was causing Hugo to exit with an error) - Metadata: If set, use the summary parameter in content front matter for the description when a user shares a page on social media
- Setting
highlight_languages
is now only supported inconfig.toml
and not on a per page basis - Exclude all widgets from the sitemap, including those on widget pages other than the home page (#613)
- Add support for Hugo v0.45
Thank you
Last but certainly not least, a big Thank You to all the folks that helped to make Academic even better.