hugo/docs/content/en/news/0.59.0-relnotes/index.md

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date: 2019-10-21 title: "Hugo 0.59.0" description: "Set image target format and background color, and more ..." categories: ["Releases"]

The timing of this release is motivated by getting the copies of the docs repositories in synch, now fully "Hugo Modularized". But it also comes with some very nice additions:

It is now possible to set the target format and the background fill color when processing images, e.g.:

{{ $image.Resize "600x jpg #b31280" }}

See Image Processing Options.

Another useful addon is the $pages.Next and $pages.Prev methods on the core page collections in Hugo. These works the same way as the built-in static variants one Page, e.g. .Next and .NextInSection:

{{with .Site.RegularPages.Next . }}{{.RelPermalink}}{{end}}

The above is a functionally equivalent (but slightly slower) variant of:

{{with .Next }}{{.RelPermalink}}{{end}}

See Pages Methods for more information.

This release represents 45 contributions by 13 contributors to the main Hugo code base. @bep leads the Hugo development with a significant amount of contributions, but also a big shoutout to @anthonyfok, @BaibhaVatsa, and @XhmikosR for their ongoing contributions. And a big thanks to @digitalcraftsman and @onedrawingperday for their relentless work on keeping the themes site in pristine condition and to @kaushalmodi for his great work on the documentation site.

Many have also been busy writing and fixing the documentation in hugoDocs, which has received 34 contributions by 20 contributors. A special thanks to @bep, @celtic-coder, @napcs, and @bmackinney for their work on the documentation site.

Hugo now has:

• 38843+ stars
• 441+ contributors
• 255+ themes

Notes

• Shortcode params can now be typed (supported types are string, bool int and float64, see #6376.
• Pages.Next/.Prev as described above has existed for a long time, but they have been undocumented. They have been reimplemented for this release and now works like their namesakes on Page. This may be considered a breaking change, but it should be a welcome one, as the old behaviour wasn't very useful. See #4500

Enhancements

Templates

• Add optional "title" attribute to iframe in Vimeo shortcode 7b3edc29 @zbayoff
• Modify error messages of after, first, and last 65b7d422 @BaibhaVatsa #6415
• Last now accepts 0 as limit 0e75af74 @BaibhaVatsa #6419
• After now accepts 0 as index 096a4b67 @BaibhaVatsa #6388
• Make getJSON/getCVS accept non-string args 0d7b05be @bep #6382
• Add rel="noopener" for external links 34dc06b0 @XhmikosR
• Remove unneeded space 2b1814ee @XhmikosR
• Remove eq argument limitation 5e660947 @vazrupe #6237

Output

• Add common video media types 689f647b @martignoni
• Simplify test output to simplify diffing 339ee371 @bep
• Use + to create the Type string 64ec8c89 @bep
• Support output image format in image operations e5856e61 @jansorg #6298

Other

• Replace /docs 39121de4 @bep
• Recover from file corruption 180195aa @bep #6401
• Allow to set background fill colour 4b286b9d @bep #6298
• Replace .RSSLink 46cafdba @bep #6037
• Use binary search in Pages.Prev/Next if possible 653e6856 @bep #4500
• Make Pages.Prev/Next work like the other Prev/Next methods f4f566ed @bep #4500
• Update feature_request.md 5f1aafaf @bep
• Update to Go 1.12.10 and 1.13.1 71b18a07 @bep #6406
• Add FileMeta.String f10db101 @bep
• Update minify to v2.5.2 b401858e @anthonyfok
• Add BaseFs to RenderingContext 020a6fbd @niklasfasching
• Update go-org b152216d @niklasfasching
• Upgrade to latest version of emoji dependency c466b88c @jamietanna #6391
• Upgrade to latest version of emoji dependency 170f18d9 @jamietanna
• Update Architectures 15a0364d @bep
• Add ability to invalidate Google Cloud CDN 674e81ae @gkelly
• Ensure same dirinfos sort order in TestImageOperationsGolden 298092d5 @anthonyfok
• Update bug_report.md 019ae384 @bep
• Support typed bool, int and float in shortcode params 329e88db @bep #6371
• Update Chroma e073f4ef @bep #6279
• Add issue templates and action 454a033d @bmackinney
• Add some more resource transform tests c262a95a @bep #6348
• Do not compile in Azure on Solaris c0d7188e @fazalmajid #6324
• Ignore "does not exist" errors in prune fcfa6f33 @bep #6326#5745
• Avoid writing the same processed image to /public twice 9442937d @bep #6307
• Update github.com/bep/gitmap 24ad4295 @bep #6313

Fixes

Core

• Fix broken bundle live reload logic 901077c0 @bep #6315#6308

Other

• Fix elements are doubling when append a not assignable type a9762b5c @vazrupe #6188
• Fix data race in global logger init bc70f2bf @bep #6409
• Fix image test error on s390x, ppc64* and arm64 39ed33fc @anthonyfok #6387
• Fix cache key transformed resources 6dec671f @bep #6348
• Fix cache keys for bundled resoures in transform.Unmarshal c0d75736 @bep #6327
• Fix concat with fingerprint regression 3be2c253 @bep #6309