This release represents **23 contributions by 6 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 [@raoulb](https://github.com/raoulb), [@jmooring](https://github.com/jmooring), and [@digitalcraftsman](https://github.com/digitalcraftsman) for their ongoing contributions.

Many have also been busy writing and fixing the documentation in [hugoDocs](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs),
which has received **1 contributions by 1 contributors**.

Hugo now has:

* 52755+ [stars](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/stargazers)
* 431+ [contributors](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/graphs/contributors)
* 370+ [themes](http://themes.gohugo.io/)

## Enhancements

### Other

* Move time notification to after any build errors [04dc469f](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/04dc469fbd78d9fe784829f2cba61c8cce982bdb) [@jhollowe](https://github.com/jhollowe) [#8403](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8403)
* Log warning for metadata decode error [07919d1c](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/07919d1ccb01733f4c6c5952e59228cecc9b26c8) [@IveGotNorto](https://github.com/IveGotNorto) [#8519](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8519)
* Make the --poll flag a duration [e31b1d19](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/e31b1d194655ac3a38fe903ff3995806b129b88a) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8720](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8720)
* Regen CLI docs [43a23239](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/43a23239b2e3ad602c06d9af0b648e0304fc8744) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) 
* Add polling as a fallback to native filesystem events in server watch [24ce98b6](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/24ce98b6d10b2088af61c15112f5c5ed915a0c35) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8720](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8720)[#6849](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/6849)[#7930](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/7930)
* Bump github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.3.9 [0019d60f](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/0019d60f67b6c4dde085753641a917fcd0aa4c76) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8727](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8727)
* Add module.import.noMounts config [40dfdd09](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/40dfdd09521bcb8f56150e6791d60445198f27ab) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8708](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8708)
* Use value type for module.Time [3a6dc6d3](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/3a6dc6d3f423c4acb79ef21b5a76e616fa2c9477) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) 
* Add version time to "hugo config mounts" [6cd2110a](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/6cd2110ab295f598907a18da91e34d31407c1d9d) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) 
* Add some more info to "hugo config mounts" [6a365c27](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/6a365c2712c7607e067e192d213b266f0c88d0f3) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) 
* Update to Minify v2.9.18 [d9bdd37d](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/d9bdd37d35ccd436b4dd470ef99efa372a6a086b) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8693](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8693)
* Remove credit from release notes [b2eaf4c8](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/b2eaf4c8c2e31aa1c1bc4a2c0061f661e01d2de1) [@digitalcraftsman](https://github.com/digitalcraftsman) 
* Rename Header(s) to Heading(s) in ToC struct [a7e3da24](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/a7e3da242f98d4799dad013d7ba2f285717640d6) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) 

## Fixes

### Other

* Fix tab selection of disabled items in internal pagination template [f75f9007](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/f75f90079a6f2a239c8186faba5db5dbe6e36cb6) [@raoulb](https://github.com/raoulb) 
* Fix panic when theme has permalinks config [e451b984](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/e451b984cfb45b54a3972cefa59a02d50b0b0fd2) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8724](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8724)
* Fix Cloudflare vs Netlify cache dir issue [4c8552b1](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/4c8552b11477141777101e0e0609dd1f32d191e9) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8714](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8714)
* Fix date format in schema and opengraph templates [34e4742f](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/34e4742f0caab0d3eb9efd00fce4157d112617b5) [@jmooring](https://github.com/jmooring) [#8671](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8671)
* Fix Netlify default cache dir logic [6c8c0c8b](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/6c8c0c8b6a0b39b91de44d72a7bd1cd49534a0f1) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8710](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8710)
* Fix handling of invalid OS env config overrides [49fedbc5](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/49fedbc51cafa64e4eb0eae9fb79ccbe2d4c6774) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8709](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8709)
* Fix config handling with empty config entries after merge [19aa95fc](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/19aa95fc7f4cd58dcc8a8ff075762cfc86d41dc3) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8701](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8701)
* Fix config loading for "hugo mod init" [923dd9d1](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/923dd9d1c1f649142f3f377109318b07e0f44d5d) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8697](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8697)
* Fix language menu config regression [093dacab](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/093dacab29a3c6fc363408453d0bc3b1fc159ad5) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8672](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8672)
* Fix merge of config with map[string]string values. [4a9d408f](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/4a9d408fe0bbf4c563546e35d2be7ade4e920c4c) [@bep](https://github.com/bep) [#8679](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/8679)