hugo/docs/content/en/news/0.8-relnotes/index.md

---
date: 2013-08-03T15:26:04Z
description: "Hugo 0.8 added support for pretty URLs, support for TOML and YAML, better Windows compatibility, and more!"
title: "Hugo 0.8"
categories: ["Releases"]
---

**Please read the docs as a few options have changed in this release:**

- Added support for pretty URLs (filename/index.html vs filename.html)
- Hugo supports a destination directory
- Will efficiently sync content in static to destination directory
- Cleaned up options.. now with support for short and long options
- Added support for TOML
- Added support for YAML
- Added support for Previous & Next
- Added support for indexes for the indexes
- Better Windows compatibility
- Support for series
- Adding verbose output
- Loads of bugfixes
Squashed 'docs/' changes from e161ea09d..0fd7b4169 0fd7b4169 Fix typo: pygmentsUseClasses -> pygmentsUseClassic 9a3e1c19a Clarify that lower weight gets higher precedence 820d8b581 Clarify the true behavior of hrefTargetBlank #blackfriday eb3aa5e46 Fix typo 9aedb9269 Add examples for removing default taxonomies 772a26f84 Fix source link on maintainance 975c215ae Minor edits. 2bdb1a150 Fix invalid iink 991d2e139 Fix misspelling 60af8dfb0 Update eSolia link d7426b76e Release 0.40.3 4977bd9cf Merge branch 'release-0.40.3' 9946f7108 releaser: Prepare repository for 0.41-DEV beef16b01 releaser: Add release notes to /docs for release of 0.40.3 80c51c55a releaser: Bump versions for release of 0.40.3 21e2934c5 rename `taxonomies.html` to `taxonomy.html` 34a02c289 Add release notes from Hugo 0.7 to 0.15 for completeness b593f512e Update related.md 7c2bf528b Fix the "edit this page" link e8fbc163e Add warning about cond ae15a8831 Add link to Markdown Guide e077dfd65 Added documentation for a new migration tool: BlogMl2Hugo 957bfb6a8 Add Talkayrd, a new commenting system, & fix txtpen link 86acea7f8 Tomango showcase 3c2fc32f1 Fix snap classic command in installing.md 9a76f1737 Merge commit '83bef6955e014d40c0f00db9cebe09113154e999' a4b71fb84 Fix typo git-subtree-dir: docs git-subtree-split: 0fd7b416997bf76cd99e3ae2dfae406cb8b6724a 2018-05-25 09:04:07 -04:00			`---`
			`date: 2013-08-03T15:26:04Z`
			`description: "Hugo 0.8 added support for pretty URLs, support for TOML and YAML, better Windows compatibility, and more!"`
			`title: "Hugo 0.8"`
			`categories: ["Releases"]`
			`---`

			`Please read the docs as a few options have changed in this release:`

			`- Added support for pretty URLs (filename/index.html vs filename.html)`
			`- Hugo supports a destination directory`
			`- Will efficiently sync content in static to destination directory`
			`- Cleaned up options.. now with support for short and long options`
			`- Added support for TOML`
			`- Added support for YAML`
			`- Added support for Previous & Next`
			`- Added support for indexes for the indexes`
			`- Better Windows compatibility`
			`- Support for series`
			`- Adding verbose output`
			`- Loads of bugfixes`