Hugo `0.43` adds a powerful and very simple to use **Assets Pipeline** with **SASS and SCSS** with source map support, **PostCSS** and **minification** and **fingerprinting** and **Subresource Integrity** and ... much more. Oh, did we mention that you can now do **ad-hoc image processing** and execute text resources as Go templates?
To me, the above is beautiful in its speed and simplicity. It could be printed on a t-shirt. I wrote in the [Hugo Birthday Post](https://gohugo.io/news/lets-celebrate-hugos-5th-birthday/) some days ago about the value of a single binary with native and fast implementations. I should have added _simplicity_ as a keyword. There seem to be a misconception that all of this needs to be hard and painful.
*`resources.FromString`: Create a Resource from a string.
New `Resource` transformation funcs:
*`resources.ToCSS`: Compile `SCSS` or `SASS` into `CSS`.
*`resources.PostCSS`: Process your CSS with PostCSS. Config file support (project or theme or passed as an option).
*`resources.Minify`: Currently supports `css`, `js`, `json`, `html`, `svg`, `xml`.
*`resources.Fingerprint`: Creates a fingerprinted version of the given Resource with Subresource Integrity.
*`resources.Concat`: Concatenates a list of Resource objects. Think of this as a poor man's bundler.
*`resources.ExecuteAsTemplate`: Parses and executes the given Resource and data context (e.g. .Site) as a Go template.
I, [@bep](https://github.com/bep), implemented this in [dea71670](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/dea71670c059ab4d5a42bd22503f18c087dd22d4). We will work hard to get the documentation up to date, but follow the links above for details, and also see this [demo project](https://github.com/bep/hugo-sass-test).
This release represents **35 contributions by 7 contributors** to the main Hugo code base.
[@bep](https://github.com/bep) leads the Hugo development with a significant amount of contributions, but also a big shoutout to [@anthonyfok](https://github.com/anthonyfok), [@openscript](https://github.com/openscript), and [@caarlos0](https://github.com/caarlos0) for their ongoing contributions.
And a big thanks to [@digitalcraftsman](https://github.com/digitalcraftsman) for his relentless work on keeping the themes site in pristine condition and to [@kaushalmodi](https://github.com/kaushalmodi) for his great work on the documentation site.
Many have also been busy writing and fixing the documentation in [hugoDocs](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs),
which has received **11 contributions by 5 contributors**. A special thanks to [@bep](https://github.com/bep), [@danrl](https://github.com/danrl), [@regisphilibert](https://github.com/regisphilibert), and [@digitalcraftsman](https://github.com/digitalcraftsman) for their work on the documentation site.
* Replace deprecated {Get,}ByPrefix with {Get,}Match [42ed6025](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/42ed602580a672e420e1d860384e812f4871ff67) [@anthonyfok](https://github.com/anthonyfok)
* Hugo is now released with two binary version: One with and one without SCSS/SASS support. At the time of writing, this is only available in the binaries on the GitHub release page. Brew, Snap builds etc. will come. But note that you **only need the extended version if you want to edit SCSS**. For your CI server, or if you don't use SCSS, you will most likely want the non-extended version.
## Enhancements
### Templates
* Return en empty slice in `after` instead of error [f8212d20](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/f8212d20009c4b5cc6e1ec733d09531eb6525d9f) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4894](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4894)
* Update internal pagination template to support Bootstrap 4 [ca1e46ef](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/ca1e46efb94e3f3d2c8482cb9434d2f38ffd2683) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4881](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4881)
* Support text/template/parse API change in go1.11 [9f27091e](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/9f27091e1067875e2577c331acc60adaef5bb234) [@anthonyfok](https://github.com/anthonyfok) [#4784](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4784)
### Core
* Allow forward slash in shortcode names [de37455e](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/de37455ec73cffd039b44e8f6c62d2884b1d6bbd) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4886](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4886)
* Reset the global pages cache on server rebuilds [128f14ef](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/128f14efad90886ffef37c01ac1e20436a732f97) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4845](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4845)
* Build both hugo and hugo.extended for 0.43 [e1027c58](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/e1027c5846b48c4ad450f6cc27e2654c9e0dae39) [@anthonyfok](https://github.com/anthonyfok) [#4908](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4908)
* Add "extended" to "hugo version" [ce84b524](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/ce84b524f4e94299b5b66afe7ce1a9bd4a9959fc) [@anthonyfok](https://github.com/anthonyfok) [#4913](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4913)
* Add a newScratch template func [2b8d907a](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/2b8d907ab731627f4e2a30442cd729064516c8bb) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4685](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4685)
* Add Hugo Piper with SCSS support and much more [dea71670](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/dea71670c059ab4d5a42bd22503f18c087dd22d4) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4381](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4381)[#4903](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4903)[#4858](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4858)
* Consider root and current section's content type if set in front matter [c790029e](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/c790029e1dbb0b66af18d05764bd6045deb2e180) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4891](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4891)
* Create missing head.html partial on new theme generation [fd71fa89](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/fd71fa89bd6c197402582c87b2b76d4b96d562bf) [@openscript](https://github.com/openscript)
* Add html doctype to baseof.html template for new themes [b5a3aa70](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/b5a3aa7082135d0a573f4fbb00f798e26b67b902) [@openscript](https://github.com/openscript)
* Adds .gitattributes to force Go files to LF [6a2968fd](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/6a2968fd5c0116d93de0f379ac615e9076821899) [@neurocline](https://github.com/neurocline)
* Update to Go 1.9.7 and Go 1.10.3 [23d5fc82](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/23d5fc82ee01d56440d0991c899acd31e9b63e27) [@anthonyfok](https://github.com/anthonyfok)
* Update Dockerfile to a multi-stage build [8531ec7c](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/8531ec7ca36fd35a57fba06bbb06a65c94dfd3ed) [@skoblenick](https://github.com/skoblenick) [#4154](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4154)
* Do not fail server build when /static is missing [34ee27a7](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/34ee27a78b9e2b5f475d44253ae234067b76cc6e) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4846](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4846)
## Fixes
* Do not create paginator pages for the other output formats [43338c3a](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/43338c3a99769eb7d0df0c12559b8b3d42b67dba) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4890](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4890)
* Fix the shortcodes/partials vs base template detection [a5d0a57e](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/a5d0a57e6bdab583134a68c035aac9b3007f006a) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#4897](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4897)
