Support for Jekyll 4.0

[janko]

Jekyll 4.0.0 is out, and brings lots of nice improvements. It would be really nice if github-pages gem would add support for Jekyll 4.

[fsimonis]

Noteworthy is the upgrade of jekyl-sass-converter to version 2.
They switched from Ruby Sass to csass, as the former has reached end-of-life:

Post-install message from sass:

Ruby Sass has reached end-of-life and should no longer be used.

* If you use Sass as a command-line tool, we recommend using Dart Sass, the new
  primary implementation: https://sass-lang.com/install

* If you use Sass as a plug-in for a Ruby web framework, we recommend using the
  sassc gem: https://github.com/sass/sassc-ruby#readme

* For more details, please refer to the Sass blog:
  https://sass-lang.com/blog/posts/7828841

[polyrain]

Can we get an update on this?

[wigging]

I am also awaiting Jekyll v4.0 support for Github Pages. I need to use the "manually order documents" feature for collections but it is only available in v4.0. https://jekyllrb.com/docs/collections/#manually-ordering-documents

[DirtyF]

I'd recommend using GitHub Actions to build your site and publish it on GitHub Pages: https://github.com/BryanSchuetz/jekyll-deploy-gh-pages

[kushalpandya]

I didn't have any dependency on Jekyll 4.0 except for better SCSS compile performance (due to sassc), but I ditched GitHub Pages in favour of Netlify as it can even install 3rd-party Jekyll plugins which aren't supported by GitHub, and you get all the features that GitHub Pages provides + a few extra for free!

[DirtyF]

Please note that Netlify recently limited their free plan to 300min build per month, aka 10min per day.

[wigging]

In the past, how long did it take for GitHub Pages to update to the latest version of Jekyll? Or is GitHub Pages always on an old Jekyll version?

[kushalpandya]

Please note that Netlify recently limited their free plan to 300min build per month, aka 10min per day.

I think 10 min per day is sufficient for most users who are using GitHub Pages where they don't update their site as often each day. In my case, I have a moderately complex site with 50+ documents and a handful of 3rd party jekyll plugins and yet the site builds gets published under 40 seconds on Netlify. So hitting that 10 minute limit for the day would be distant. 😅

In the past, how long did it take for GitHub Pages to update to the latest version of Jekyll? Or is GitHub Pages always on an old Jekyll version?

I think upgrade to 4.0 is going to take some time as it being a major upgrade with 1 breaking change around how post_url behaves as GitHub wouldn't want a lot of broken static sites with such an upgrade. Not to mention that many repos which use GH Pages don't have Gemfile present (myself included when I used Jekyll for the first time to build my portfolio) which is going to affect them with upgrade.