Release history
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3.3 (XXXX-XX-XX)
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* Rename signals for better consistency (some plugins may need to be updated)
* Move metadata extraction from generators to readers; metadata extraction no
  longer article-specific
* Deprecate ``FILES_TO_COPY`` in favor of ``STATIC_PATHS`` and
  ``EXTRA_PATH_METADATA``

3.2.1 and 3.2.2
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* Facilitate inclusion in FreeBSD Ports Collection

3.2 (2013-04-24)
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* Support for Python 3!
* Override page save-to location from meta-data (enables using a static page as
  the site's home page, for example)
* Time period archives (per-year, per-month, and per-day archives of posts)
* Posterous blog import
* Improve WordPress blog import
* Migrate plugins to separate repository
* Improve HTML parser
* Provide ability to show or hide categories from menu using
  ``DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_MENU`` option
* Auto-regeneration can be told to ignore files via ``IGNORE_FILES`` setting
* Improve post-generation feedback to user
* For multilingual posts, use meta-data to designate which is the original
  and which is the translation
* Add ``.mdown`` to list of supported Markdown file extensions
* Document-relative URL generation (``RELATIVE_URLS``) is now off by default

3.1 (2012-12-04)
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* Importer now stores slugs within files by default. This can be disabled with
  the ``--disable-slugs`` option.
* Improve handling of links to intra-site resources
* Ensure WordPress import adds paragraphs for all types of line endings
  in post content
* Decode HTML entities within WordPress post titles on import
* Improve appearance of LinkedIn icon in default theme
* Add GitHub and Google+ social icons support in default theme
* Optimize social icons
* Add ``FEED_ALL_ATOM`` and ``FEED_ALL_RSS`` to generate feeds containing all posts regardless of their language
* Split ``TRANSLATION_FEED`` into ``TRANSLATION_FEED_ATOM`` and ``TRANSLATION_FEED_RSS``
* Different feeds can now be enabled/disabled individually
* Allow for blank author: if ``AUTHOR`` setting is not set, author won't
  default to ``${USER}`` anymore, and a post won't contain any author
  information if the post author is empty
* Move LESS and Webassets support from Pelican core to plugin
* The ``DEFAULT_DATE`` setting now defaults to ``None``, which means that
  articles won't be generated unless date metadata is specified
* Add ``FILENAME_METADATA`` setting to support metadata extraction from filename
* Add ``gzip_cache`` plugin to compress common text files into a ``.gz``
  file within the same directory as the original file, preventing the server
  (e.g. Nginx) from having to compress files during an HTTP call
* Add support for AsciiDoc-formatted content
* Add ``USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY`` setting so that feature can be toggled on/off
* Support arbitrary Jinja template files
* Restore basic functional tests
* New signals: ``generator_init``, ``get_generators``, and
  ``article_generate_preread``

3.0 (2012-08-08)
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* Refactored the way URLs are handled
* Improved the English documentation
* Fixed packaging using ``setuptools`` entrypoints
* Added ``typogrify`` support
* Added a way to disable feed generation
* Added support for ``DIRECT_TEMPLATES``
* Allow multiple extensions for content files
* Added LESS support
* Improved the import script
* Added functional tests
* Rsync support in the generated Makefile
* Improved feed support (easily pluggable with Feedburner for instance)
* Added support for ``abbr`` in reST
* Fixed a bunch of bugs :-)

2.8 (2012-02-28)
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* Dotclear importer
* Allow the usage of Markdown extensions
* Themes are now easily extensible
* Don't output pagination information if there is only one page
* Add a page per author, with all their articles
* Improved the test suite
* Made the themes easier to extend
* Removed Skribit support
* Added a ``pelican-quickstart`` script
* Fixed timezone-related issues
* Added some scripts for Windows support
* Date can be specified in seconds
* Never fail when generating posts (skip and continue)
* Allow the use of future dates
* Support having different timezones per language
* Enhanced the documentation

2.7 (2011-06-11)
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* Use ``logging`` rather than echoing to stdout
* Support custom Jinja filters
* Compatibility with Python 2.5
* Added a theme manager
* Packaged for Debian
* Added draft support

2.6 (2011-03-08)
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* Changes in the output directory structure
* Makes templates easier to work with / create
* Added RSS support (was Atom-only)
* Added tag support for the feeds
* Enhance the documentation
* Added another theme (brownstone)
* Added translations
* Added a way to use cleaner URLs with a rewrite url module (or equivalent)
* Added a tag cloud
* Added an autoreloading feature: the blog is automatically regenerated each time a modification is detected
* Translate the documentation into French
* Import a blog from an RSS feed
* Pagination support
* Added Skribit support

2.5 (2010-11-20)
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* Import from Wordpress
* Added some new themes (martyalchin / wide-notmyidea)
* First bug report!
* Linkedin support
* Added a FAQ
* Google Analytics support
* Twitter support
* Use relative URLs, not static ones

2.4 (2010-11-06)
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* Minor themes changes
* Add Disqus support (so we have comments)
* Another code refactoring
* Added config settings about pages
* Blog entries can also be generated in PDF

2.3 (2010-10-31)
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* Markdown support

2.2 (2010-10-30)
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* Prettify output
* Manages static pages as well

2.1 (2010-10-30)
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* Make notmyidea the default theme

2.0 (2010-10-30)
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* Refactoring to be more extensible
* Change into the setting variables

1.2 (2010-09-28)
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* Added a debug option
* Added per-category feeds
* Use filesystem to get dates if no metadata is provided
* Add Pygments support

1.1 (2010-08-19)
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* First working version