jekyll / jekyll

Major Enhancements

• Add docs subcommand to read Jekyll's docs when offline. (#1046)
• Support passing parameters to templates in include tag (#1204)
• Add support for Liquid tags to post excerpts (#1302)

Minor Enhancements

• Search the hierarchy of pagination path up to site root to determine template page for
  pagination. (#1198)
• Add the ability to generate a new Jekyll site without a template (#1171)
• Use redcarpet as the default markdown engine in newly generated
  sites (#1245, #1247)
• Add redcarpet as a runtime dependency so jekyll build works out-of-the-box for new
  sites. (#1247)
• In the generated site, remove files that will be replaced by a
  directory (#1118)
• Fail loudly if a user-specified configuration file doesn't exist (#1098)
• Allow for all options for Kramdown HTML Converter (#1201)

Bug Fixes

• Fix pagination in subdirectories. (#1198)
• Fix an issue with directories and permalinks that have a plus sign
  (+) in them (#1215)
• Provide better error reporting when generating sites (#1253)
• Latest posts first in non-LSI related_posts (#1271)

Development Fixes

• Merge the theme and layout cucumber steps into one step (#1151)
• Restrict activesupport dependency to pre-4.0.0 to maintain compatibility with <= 1.9.2
• Include/exclude deprecation handling simplification (#1284)
• Convert README to Markdown. (#1267)
• Refactor Jekyll::Site (#1144)

Site Enhancements

• Add "News" section for release notes, along with an RSS feed (#1093, #1285, #1286)
• Add "History" page.
• Restructured docs sections to include "Meta" section.
• Add message to "Templates" page that specifies that Python must be installed in order
  to use Pygments. (#1182)
• Update link to the official Maruku repo (#1175)
• Add documentation about paginate_path to "Templates" page in docs (#1129)
• Give the quick-start guide its own page (#1191)
• Update ProTip on Installation page in docs to point to all the info about Pygments and
  the 'highlight' tag. (#1196)
• Run site/img through ImageOptim (thanks @qrush!) (#1208)
• Added Jade Converter to site/docs/plugins (#1210)
• Fix location of docs pages in Contributing pages (#1214)
• Add ReadInXMinutes plugin to the plugin list (#1222)
• Remove plugins from the plugin list that have equivalents in Jekyll
  proper (#1223)
• Add jekyll-assets to the plugin list (#1225)
• Add jekyll-pandoc-mulitple-formats to the plugin list (#1229)
• Remove dead link to "Using Git to maintain your blog" (#1227)
• Tidy up the third-party plugins listing (#1228)
• Update contributor information (#1192)
• Update URL of article about Blogger migration (#1242)
• Specify that RedCarpet is the default for new Jekyll sites on Quickstart page (#1247)
• Added site.pages to Variables page in docs (#1251)
• Add Youku and Tudou Embed link on Plugins page. (#1250)
• Add note that gist tag supports private gists. (#1248)
• Add jekyll-timeago to list of third-party plugins. (#1260)
• Add jekyll-swfobject to list of third-party plugins. (#1263)
• Add jekyll-picture-tag to list of third-party plugins. (#1280)
• Update the GitHub Pages documentation regarding relative URLs
  (#1291)
• Update the S3 deployment documentation (#1294)
• Add suggestion for Xcode CLT install to troubleshooting page in docs (#1296)
• Add 'Working with drafts' page to docs (#1289)