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)

Pelican 4.6.0

• Add new URL pattern to PAGINATION_PATTERNS for the last page in the list (#1401)
• Speed up livereload Invoke task via caching (#2847)
• Ignore None return value from get_generators signal (#2850)
• Relax dependency minimum versions and remove upper bounds

Pelican 4.5.4

Replace plugin definitions in settings with string representations after registering, so they can be cached correctly (#2828).

Pelican 4.5.3

Fix a mistake made in PR #2821

Pelican 4.5.2

Improve logging of generators and writer loaders