Hugo 0.35: Headless Bundles!

The most notable new feature in Hugo 0.35 is perhaps Headless Bundles.

This means that you in your index.md front matter can say:

headless: true

And

• it will have no Permalink and no rendered HTML in /public
• it will not be part of .Site.RegularPages etc.

But you can get it by:

• .Site.GetPage ...

The use cases are many:

• Shared media libraries
• Reusable page content “snippets”
• …

But this release contains more goodies than possible to sum up in one paragraph, so study the release notes carefully. It represents 42 contributions by 8 contributors to the main Hugo code base.

@bep leads the Hugo development with a significant amount of contributions, but also a big shoutout to @vassudanagunta, @yanzay, and @robertbasic for their ongoing contributions.

And as always a big thanks to @digitalcraftsman for his relentless work on keeping the documentation and the themes site in pristine condition.

Many have also been busy writing and fixing the documentation in hugoDocs, which has received 28 contributions by 5 contributors. A special thanks to @bep, @kaushalmodi, @regisphilibert, and @salim-b for their work on the documentation site.

Hugo now has:

• 22967+ stars
• 448+ contributors
• 197+ themes

Notes  

• Deprecate useModTimeAsFallback adfd4370 @bep #4351
• Deprecate CLI flags canonifyURLs, pluralizeListTitles, preserveTaxonomyNames, uglyURLs f08ea02d @bep #4347
• Remove undraft command 2fa70c93 @robertbasic #4353

Enhancements  

Templates  

• Update Twitter card to also consider images in .Resources 25d691da @bep #4349
• Seed random on init only 83c761b7 @liguoqinjim
• Remove duplicate layout lookup layouts b2fcbb1f @bep #4319
• Add “removable-media” interface to snapcraft.yaml f0c0ece4 @anthonyfok #3837

Other  

• Add a way to disable one or more languages 6413559f @bep #4297#4329
• Handle newly created files in Fast Render Mode 1707dae8 @yanzay #4339
• Extract the Fast Render Mode logic into a method 94e736c5 @bep #4339
• Remove unused code ae5a45be @bep
• Add the last lookup variant for the GetPage index 3446fe9b @bep #4312
• Simplify bundle lookup via .Site.GetPage, ref, relref 517b6b62 @bep #4312
• Remove some now superflous Fast Render Mode code feeed073 @bep #4339
• Make resource counters for name and title independent df20b054 @bep #4335
• Provide .Name to the archetype templates 863a812e @bep #4348
• Only set url if permalink in metadata and remove duplicate confirm msg 3752348e @lildude #1887
• Start Resources :counter first time they’re used 7b472e46 @bep #4335
• Update to Go 1.9.3 a91aba1c @bep #4328
• Support pages without front matter 91bb774a @vassudanagunta #4320
• Add page metadata dates tests 3f0379ad @vassudanagunta
• Re-generate CLI docs 1e27d058 @bep
• Remove and update deprecation status d418c2c2 @bep
• Shorten the stale setup 4a7c2b36 @bep
• Add a GetPage to the site benchmarks a1956391 @bep
• Add headless bundle support 0432c64d @bep #4311
• Merge matching resources params maps 5a0819b9 @bep #4315
• Add some general code contribution criteria 78c86330 @bep
• Tighten page kind logic, introduce tests 8125b4b0 @vassudanagunta

Fixes  

• Fix robots.txt in multihost mode 4d912e2a @bep #4193
• Fix --uglyURLs from comand line regression 016398ff @bep #4343
• Avoid unescape in highlight ebdd8cba @bep #4219
• Fix Docker build a34213f0 @skoblenick #4076#4077
• Fix language params handling ae742cb1 @bep #4356#4352
• Fix handling of top-level page bundles 4eb2fec6 @bep #4332
• Fix baseURL server regression for multilingual sites ed4a00e4 @bep #4333
• Fix “date” page param 322c5672 @vassudanagunta #4323
• Fix typo in comment 912147ab @yanzay