Pelican 4.11.0

• Add setting to selectively omit Typogrify filters (#3439 by @davidlesieur)
• Add more blocks to the Simple theme’s base template, making it easier to create new themes by inheriting from the Simple theme (#3405 by @frederik-elwert)
• Fix auto-reload behavior upon changes to the theme, content or settings. Make default IGNORE_FILES recursively ignore all hidden files as well as the default filters from watchfiles.DefaultFilter. (#3441 by @yashaslokesh)
• Get current year from the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable, if available (#3430 by @Vincent-C)
• Add Python 3.13 to test matrix and remove Python 3.8 (#3435 by @hugovk)
• Require Typogrify 2.1+ and Pygments <2.19 (by @justinmayer)

Pelican 4.10.2

• Change IGNORE_FILES setting default to ignore all hidden files
• Fix SUMMARY_MAX_PARAGRAPHS not being respected in some combinations with SUMMARY_MAX_LENGTH

Pelican 4.10.1

• Fix error when running pelican -r -l (#3398 by @cpitclaudel)
• Fix symlink handling in pelican-themes (#3392 by @frederik-elwert)

Pelican 4.10.0

• Add setting to specify summary via paragraph count (#2761 by @gagath)
• Add new status to skip generation of a post (#3304 by @GiovanH)
• Add setting to append ref parameter to links in feeds (#3249 by @GiovanH)
• Improve logging (#3257 & #3276 by @MinchinWeb)
• Configure logging handler via --log-handler CLI option (#3293 by @cpitclaudel)
• Resolve intra-site links in summaries (#3280 by @MinchinWeb)
• Warn about files not processed due to disabled readers (#3321 by @boxydog)
• Add Medium post importer (#3262 & #3264 by @boxydog)
• Improve GitHub Pages workflow (#3328 & #3330 by @seanh)
• Fix file permissions in GitHub Pages workflow (#3248 by @vbharadwaj-bk)
• Add GitHub Pages commit message variable (#3250 by @snosratiershad)
• Add .nojekyll file when invoking ghp-import (#3259 by @snosratiershad)
• Keep EOF newline in quickstart-generated files (#3251 by @snosratiershad)
• Translate documentation into Simplified Chinese (#3346 by @GeorgeHu6)
• Add type hints for several modules (#3267 & #3278 by @bjoernricks)
• Improve code test coverage (#3323 by @boxydog & @justinmayer)

Pelican 4.9.1

• Ensure tzdata dependency is installed on Windows (#3246 by @MinchinWeb)

Pelican 4.9.0

• Upgrade code to new minimum supported Python version: 3.8
• Settings support for pathlib.Path (#2758)
• Various improvements to Simple theme (#2976)
• Use Furo as Sphinx documentation theme (#3023)
• Default to 100 articles maximum in feeds (#3127)
• Add period_archives common context variable (#3148)
• Use watchfiles as the file-watching backend (#3151)
• Add GitHub Actions workflow for GitHub Pages (#3189)
• Allow dataclasses in settings (#3204)
• Switch build tool to PDM instead of Setuptools/Poetry (#3220)
• Provide a plugin_enabled Jinja test for themes (#3235)
• Preserve connection order in Blinker (#3238)
• Remove social icons from default notmyidea theme (#3240)
• Remove unreliable WRITE_SELECTED feature (#3243)
• Importer: Report broken embedded video links when importing from Tumblr (#3177)
• Importer: Remove newline addition when iterating Photo post types (#3178)
• Importer: Force timestamp conversion in Tumblr importer to be UTC with offset (#3221)
• Importer: Use tempfile for intermediate HTML file for Pandoc (#3221)
• Switch linters to Ruff (#3223)

Pelican 4.8.0

• Use JSON values for extra settings in Invoke tasks template (#2994)
• Add content tag for links, which can help with things like Twitter social cards (#3001)
• Improve word count behavior when generating summary (#3002)

Pelican 4.7.2

• Fix incorrect parsing of parameters specified via -e / --extra-settings option flags (#2938)
• Add categories.html template to default theme (#2973)
• Document how to use plugins to inject content (#2922)

Pelican 4.7.1

• Extend rich logging to server component (#2927)
• Fix an issue where metadata flagged to be discarded was being cached (#2926)
• Adjust suffix in server to allow redirection when needed (#2931)
• Add MIME types for web fonts (#2929)
• Distribute sample data used to run tests (#2935)
• Add Python 3.10 to test matrix

Pelican 4.7.0

• Improve default theme rendering on mobile and other small screen devices (#2914)
• Add support for hidden articles (#2866)
• Improve word count behavior when generating summary CJK & other locales (#2864)
• Add progress spinner during generation (#2869) and richer logging (#2897), both via Rich
• Invoke tasks serve and livereload now auto-open a web browser pointing to the locally-served web site (#2764)
• Support some date format codes used by ISO dates (#2902)
• Document how to add a new writer (#2901)