Hugo >0.123.5 failing to render most of website menu

[danburd]

What version of Hugo are you using (hugo version)?

$ hugo version
hugo v0.123.8-5fed9c591b694f314e5939548e11cc3dcb79a79c+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2024-03-07T13:14:42Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

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Hugo 0.123.6, 0.123.7, and 0.123.8 is failing to render most of the website menu in the Book theme where 0.123.5 is doing so without issues. Specifically, it's unable to render the pages which exist in a hierarchy of sections - links to pages that are in the menu's root render successfully. I believe that the operative code to render the hierarchical menu is here, between lines 10 and 25. Sorry that I'm not more knowledgeable about which functions in particular are not working.

I've filed an issue with the theme, but I suspect the issue is with Hugo itself as I don't believe that breaking changes are purposefully introduced in bugfix releases.

[jmooring]

@danburd I am unable to reproduce this as described.

Using Hugo v0.123.8, here's what I did:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book
cd hugo-book/exampleSite/
hugo server --themesDir ../..

Here's what I got:

Please provide a failing example.

[danburd]

Update: the issue is only with headless branch bundles not showing up on the menu. (All of my page bundles were headless, which is why the issue seemed more broad at the time.) That's why the exampleSite worked and mine did not. I don't know if this is an issue with the theme or an issue with Hugo.

[jmooring]

I am not comfortable troubleshooting this without access to your project repository. If you are making your bundles "headless" by adding headless = true to front matter, use build options instead. Again, without access to your site I am just guessing, but this sounds like we fixed a bug rather than introduced a new one.

[danburd]

I suppose the correct way to do this is to replace headless: true with:

build:
  render: never

Thanks. Closing.

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