CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to Congo will be documented in this file. Things that need particular attention when upgrading from a prior version are marked ⚠️.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

2.7.6 - 2023-11-26

Fixed

• Some Mermaid diagram elements not styled correctly in dark mode (#706)

2.7.5 - 2023-11-25

Added

• Ukrainian translation (#703)
• Bulgarian translation (#718)

Changed

• Updated Dutch translation (#696)
• Upgrade to Mermaid v10.6.1 (#697)

Fixed

• Some files have unnecessary execute permissions (#714)
• Empty block is output when locale switcher is hidden (#699)

2.7.4 - 2023-11-05

Fixed

• Links with non-whitespace characters preceeding them are prefixed with a space (#695)

2.7.3 - 2023-10-31

Fixed

• Article metadata HTML is output as text when using Hugo v0.120.0 (#689)

2.7.2 - 2023-10-26

Changed

• Upgrade to Tailwind v3.3.5 (#681, #686)
• Upgrade to Mermaid v10.6.0 (#684)
• Upgrade to FuseJS v7.0.0 (#685)

Fixed

• Empty block is output when locale switcher is hidden (#678)
• Extra whitespace added after links (#679)

2.7.1 - 2023-10-24

Changed

• Minor refactor to improve memory efficiency in search results (#650)
• Links in Markdown content are now portable (#655)

Fixed

• JavaScript error setting theme colour when site is loaded in dark mode (#676)

2.7.0 - 2023-10-23

Added

• New portable locale picker that can be placed in any menu using the locale action (#583)
• New icons for chevron-down, chevron-up, globe, translate, coffee and x-twitter (#669)
• Plausible Analytics support (#584)
• Spanish translation of example site samples (#606)
• Japanese translation of docs and example site (#618)
• German translation of example site (#631)

Changed

• ⚠️ Renamed the params.rtl language parameter to languageDirection as this is now supported by Hugo (#583)
• Robots.txt file now allows all by default without concern for whether the environment is set to production (#620)
• Refactored the head.html partial to improve perceived performance on page load
• Upgrade to Mermaid v10.5.1 (#577, #582, #626, #638, #663, #674)
• Upgrade to KaTeX v0.16.9 (#590, #664)
• Upgrade to Tailwind v3.3.3 (#602)
• Upgrade to ChartJS v4.3.3 (#616, #627, #635)
• Upgrade to Typography v0.5.10 (#641)

Fixed

• Prominent images in content and site layout are lazy loaded (#591)
• TypeError is output to console when viewing leaf pages (#596)
• URL to Congo project in footer used deprecated git.io short link (#605)
• Various typos in the docs and example site (#608, #609, #613)
• Incorrect render value is used in the 'external' archetype (#630)
• Images are missing width and height attributes (#645)
• Extended head partial does not include page context (#658)
• Taxonomy tags aren't padded when wrapping onto a new line (#671)
• Minor CSS improvements, mainly relating to RTL styling
• Minor typos

Removed

• Locales no longer appear next to the site name/logo as they are now part of the menu system (#583)
• Language parameters isoCode and displayName are no longer supported (#583)
• Meta content-language tag as it was not conveying the intended data (which is already included via the HTML lang attribute)

2.6.1 - 2023-06-04

Changed

• Images are now marked for lazy loading by default (#552)
• Current language is no longer displayed in language selection (#565)
• Updated Simplified Chinese (China) translation (#573)

Fixed

• Language selection repeats current language on multilingual sites instead of linking to translated content (#565)
• Icon padding inconsistent when using --minify option to build site (#568)
• Copyright string in the language configuration does not apply (#572)
• Upgrade to Mermaid v10.2.1 (#569)

2.6.0 - 2023-05-25

Added

• Support for Hugo v0.112.0
• Ability to specify an alternate logo image when dark appearance is active (#533, #543)
• Ability to specify the hashing algorithm that is used when fingerprinting assets (#478)
• Arabic translation (#521)
• Slovak translation (#541)
• Czech translation (#541)

Changed

• ⚠️ Some parameters in the root of the Languages config file have been nested under the params block
• Search results now respect showDate value when displaying article metadata (#511)
• Adopted new Tailwind logical properties for RTL styling
• Article sharing links now open in a new tab/window
• Updated Dutch translation (#544)
• Upgrade to Tailwind v3.3.1 (#523)
• Upgrade to KaTeX v0.16.7 (#538, #549)
• Upgrade to Chart.js v4.3.0 (#551)
• Upgrade to Mermaid v10.2.0 (#563)

Fixed

• Some srcset values are broken when using Hugo --minify option (#508)
• Author images are cropped off-centre during image processing (#527)
• Site doesn't build when using Hugo v0.112.0 (#561)

2.5.4 - 2023-03-20

Added

• Polish translation (#497)

Changed

• Updated Russian translation (#502)

Fixed

• Bengali translation prevents site building in certain configurations (#503)

2.5.3 - 2023-03-05

Added

• Russian translation (#485)

Changed

• Updated German translation (#475)
• Upgrade to Chart.js v4.2.1 (#472)
• Upgrade to Mermaid v9.4.0 (#473)
• Upgrade to Tailwind v3.2.7 (#491)

Fixed

• Caching the analytics partial prevents some advanced analytics use cases (#480)

2.5.2 - 2023-01-24

Added

• New icons for mobile and phone

Fixed

• Author links containing URLs in non-hypertext schemes (ie. tel:) would not be created as links (#452)
• Extra whitespace inserted after links within Markdown content (#456)

2.5.1 - 2023-01-20

Changed

• External links are now automatically appended with rel="noreferrer noopener" (#446)
• Updated Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation (#448)
• Upgrade to Chart.js v4.2.0 (#449)

Fixed

• Page alignment off-centre when opening hamburger menu at wide viewports (#445)

2.5.0 - 2023-01-17

Added

• Support for icons in menus including support for links styled as an icon by itself or an icon with text
• Search and appearance switcher links can now be fully customised and positioned anywhere in the menu
• Front matter support for specifying article thumbnails, covers and featured image details (including filename pattern, alt text and caption)
• Two new colour schemes - cherry and sapphire
• Support for SVG assets as article thumbnails, covers and featured images
• Front matter keywords support on a per article basis
• Indonesian translation (#398)
• Mastodon sharing links (#405)
• homepage.recentLimit parameter to adjust the maximum number of recent items listed on the homepage (#411)

Changed

• Images smaller than the article width are no longer resized to fill the content area and will now simply align centre (#394)
• Upgrade to KaTeX v0.16.4 (#414)
• Upgrade to Mermaid v9.3.0 (#419)
• Upgrade to Chart.js v4.1.2 (#420, #434)
• Upgrade to Typography v0.5.9 (#437)

Fixed

• mainSections parameter is language dependent and is not referenced from params.toml (#376)
• Code highlight background cut off in Google Chrome when overflowing content area (#383)
• Social icons shift position during CSS transition when hovered in Safari (#396)
• Hamburger navigation menu is misaligned in mobile browsers (#399)
• Error when attempting to resize SVG assets in page bundles (#427)
• Appearance switcher missing aria-label (#438)
• Article links missing alt text and aria-label (#439)
• Line height in article tag list would cause overlap when wrapping to a new line (#444)
• Figure shortcode would not apply class or href attribtues in some cases
• Charts displaying with incorrect theme colours

2.4.2 - 2022-11-22

Added

• Dutch translation (#371)
• HTML theme-color meta tag to adjust browser colours according to the active Congo colour scheme (#379)

Changed

• Extended head and footer partials are no longer cached during builds
• Upgrade to Chart.js v4.0.1 (#373)

Fixed

• Code highlight background cut off when overflowing content area (#374)
• 'Description' HTML meta tag not set from article description (#378)

2.4.1 - 2022-11-14

Changed

• Upgrade to Tailwind v3.2.4 (#368)

Fixed

• List page doesn't render nested list pages (#365)
• Pagination is duplicated on term pages (#366)
• Link to last pagination page sometimes displays twice
• Recent articles would sometimes display less than five articles

2.4.0 - 2022-11-10

Added

• Support for article thumbnails, covers and featured images
• Hybrid header layout that switches between the hamburger and basic menus at appropriate viewport sizes
• Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation (#262)
• New list.paginationWidth parameter to specify how many pagination links are generated before they are truncated
• Site title display can be toggled on or off independently, allowing for it to be displayed alongside the site logo or removed entirely
• Tailwind plugin for Prettier to standardise the order of CSS classes (#268)
• External links in article content will now open in a new browser tab (#312)
• Independent control over the display of taxonomy listings on article and list pages (#326)
• Button shortcode now supports an optional download parameter to instruct browsers to directly download resources rather than navigate to a URL (#349)
• Minor style and layout improvements

Changed

• ⚠️ The logo parameter has moved under the header group and is now set using header.logo
• ⚠️ Simplified Chinese (China) language code has changed from zh to zh-cn
• Site logo is now in its own logo.html partial to allow it to be easily overridden (#322)
• Upgrade to Chart.js v3.9.1 (#261)
• Upgrade to Tailwind v3.2.2 (#265, #333, #352)
• Upgrade to Mermaid v9.2.2 (#272, #279, #296, #339, #360)
• Upgrade to KaTeX v0.16.3 (#284, #334)
• Upgrade to Typography v0.5.8 (#287, #292, #353)

Fixed

• Appearance switcher title doesn't update when switching appearance (#235)
• Article updated date logic doesn't consider formatted date values (#259)
• Error calling Paginate when attempting to generate a site with no taxonomies (#289)
• Multilingual links are spaced incorrectly when using Hugo minify (#298)
• Pagination links overflow the page area on large datasets (#299)
• Embedded content disappears when displayed at certain viewport sizes (#302, #335)
• Order of articles on list pages would not follow Hugo conventions when grouped by year (#313)
• Button shortcode overlaps table of contents when at the top of the article content (#337)
• Providing a colorScheme value containing uppercase characters breaks some deployments (#347)

2.3.1 - 2022-07-30

Added

• Japanese translation (#234)

Changed

• Upgrade to Mermaid v9.1.3 (#233)
• Upgrade to Tailwind v3.1.6 (#245)
• Upgrade to Typography v0.5.4 (#246)
• Upgrade to Chart.js v3.8.2 (#247)

Fixed

• Main content misaligned when hamburger menu is opened at large viewport sizes

2.3.0 - 2022-06-27

Added

• Header layouts for selecting a preferred header style
• Hamburger menu header layout with popover main menu (#167, #88, #43, #29)
• Front matter support for showing or hiding comments on a per article basis (#207)
• showCopyright and showThemeAttribution parameters that allow more control over how the site footer is displayed (#192)
• bars SVG icon

Changed

• ⚠️ Footer configuration parameters are now in their own footer sub-group
• Search will now return results for all page types, including lists and taxonomies
• Comments partials are now better considered within the page layout
• Reduced whitespace at the top of the main content block (#226)
• Upgrade to Tailwind v3.1.4 (#225)

Fixed

• Hugo v0.101.0 breaks the link to the homepage (#230)
• Search link does not appear in header if main menu has no items to display
• Search only returns results in the primary language when multiple languages are available (#229)
• Arrow on external article links not aligned correctly when title wraps onto multiple lines
• Arrow on external article links points the wrong direction for RTL languages
• Scroll to top misaligned with the footer at small viewport heights
• Link to homepage would be incorrect in some deployments if baseURL contained sub-directories in the path

2.2.3 - 2022-06-22

Changed

• Profile image alt text now uses author name when available

Fixed

• Search not working when baseURL does not end with a forward slash (#224)
• Author headline parameter not correctly displaying Markdown or Emoji content

2.2.2 - 2022-06-16

Added

• Breadcrumb display can now be can now be specified in front matter for articles and list pages
• Italian translation (#209)

Changed

• Upgrade to Chart.js v3.8.0 (#204)
• Upgrade to KaTeX v0.16.0 (#208)
• Upgrade to Mermaid v9.1.2 (#214)

2.2.1 - 2022-05-25

Changed

• Upgrade to Mermaid v9.1.1 (#194)
• Upgrade to Fuse.js v6.6.2 (#195)
• Upgrade KaTeX to v0.15.6 (#202)

Fixed

• Main content area doesn't grow to window height (#201)

2.2.0 - 2022-05-09

Added

• Finnish translation (#185)

Changed

• Updated French translation (#178)
• Analytics partial now checks hugo.IsProduction instead of .Site.IsServer before including scripts (#179)
• Upgrade to Tailwind v3.0.24 (#176)
• Upgrade to Mermaid v9.0.1 (#183)
• Upgrade to Fuse.js v6.6.1 (#189)

Fixed

• Code blocks are rendered incorrectly in RTL languages (#164)
• Scroll to top link overlaps footer menu on mobile devices when there are several links (#172)

Removed

• hugo.Generator from HTML <head> so that the default Hugo generator behaviour works as expected (#179)

2.1.3 - 2022-04-12

Added

• Hungarian translation (#170)

Fixed

• Scroll to top link overlaps footer menu on mobile devices (#172)

2.1.2 - 2022-04-08

Added

• Romanian translation (#168)

Changed

• Upgrade to Mermaid v9.0.0

2.1.1 - 2022-04-03

Added

• Print styles to hide unnecessary elements when printing (#155)
• Hebrew translation (#163)

Fixed

• Footer menu displays incorrectly in RTL languages (#165)

2.1.0 - 2022-03-14

Added

• Simple page layout for creating full-width content (#139)
• Portuguese (Portugal) translation (#144)

Changed

• Upgrade SVG icons to FontAwesome 6:
  • New icons for Hashnode, bug, check, comment, light bulb, list, pencil, skull, tag, and information. (#136)
  • ⚠️ The exclamation-triangle icon has been renamed triangle-exclamation
  • ⚠️ The times icon has been renamed xmark
  • ⚠️ The stackoverflow icon has been renamed stack-overflow
• Upgrade KaTeX to v0.15.3
• Markdown images and figure shortcode now search the assets/ directory if an image cannot be found in page bundle (#126)
• Markdown images and figure shortcode now fallback to static assets if an image is not provided as a Hugo resource (#126)
• Taxonomy term listings now honour the groupByYear parameter (#145)
• The alert shortcode now allows its icon to be specified as a parameter

Fixed

• Dark appearance shown even when default appearance set to light and auto switching is disabled (#149)

2.0.5 - 2022-02-20

Added

• Bengali translation (#115)

Changed

• Upgrade to Tailwind v3.0.23 and Typography v0.5.2
• Upgrade to Mermaid v8.14.0
• Upgrade to Chart.js v3.7.1

Fixed

• Updated date is displayed even when it is the same as published date
• Structured data on homepage unparsable by Google (#113)
• Underline styles not displaying correctly in some browsers (#125)

2.0.4 - 2022-02-09

Changed

• Updated German translation (#110)
• Upgrade to Tailwind v3.0.19

Fixed

• Main content area not growing to fill screen vertically
• Search results not cleared when search is dismissed (#109)
• Emoji strings not displaying in search results

2.0.3 - 2022-02-07

Changed

• Updated Turkish translation (#105)
• Updated Spanish translation (#106)

Fixed

• Markdown images and figure shortcode fail to load resource when providing an external URL source
• HTML figcaption tags are output for Markdown images even when a caption is not provided
• Light appearance briefly appears on page load before switching to dark appearance (#102)

2.0.2 - 2022-02-05

Changed

• Updated French translation (#100)

Fixed

• User's appearance preference is lost on page load when default appearance is dark (#102)
• JavaScript warning when appearance switcher is disabled

2.0.1 - 2022-02-03

Fixed

• Hugo module error when downloading version 2
• Emoji strings not displaying in table of contents

2.0.0 - 2022-02-03

Added

• Multilingual support
• Right-to-left (RTL) language support
• Site search powered by Fuse.js
• Automatic Markdown image resizing and srcset generation
• Performance and Accessibility improvements to achieve perfect Lighthouse scores
• Tables of contents on article pages (#47)
• Code copy buttons in article content
• Taxonomy and term listings now support Markdown content
• Taxonomies on article and list pages
• Article pagination direction can be inverted
• Author headline parameter
• Skip to content and Scroll to top links
• Archetype for generating links to external articles

Changed

• ⚠️ Required Hugo version is now 0.87.0 or later
• ⚠️ Complete rewrite of dark mode to allow more flexibile configuration
• ⚠️ All theme images are now Hugo assets
• ⚠️ Overhauled figure shortcode which now resizes images
• Upgrade to Tailwind v3.0.18
• Inline JavaScript moved to external files
• Improved JSON-LD structured data
• Breadcrumbs now fallback to section name when title is not provided
• Minor style and layout improvements

1.6.4 - 2022-01-24

Added

• Turkish translation (#90)

Changed

• Article updated date formatting and i18n (#91)
• Upgrade to Mermaid v8.13.10

Fixed

• Article metadata not wrapping at small viewports (#91)

1.6.3 - 2022-01-19

Added

• Icon for Stack Overflow (#82)

Changed

• Upgrade to Mermaid v8.13.9
• Upgrade to KaTeX v0.15.2

Fixed

• Emoji characters in article titles not appearing on list pages and in HTML metadata (#84)

1.6.2 - 2022-01-07

Changed

• Upgrade to Chart.js v3.7.0
• Upgrade to Mermaid v8.13.8

Fixed

• lead shortcode not rendering Markdown formatted text (#73)
• JSON-LD keywords data not structured correctly (#74)

1.6.1 - 2021-12-31

Added

• Icon for Blogger (#71)

Fixed

• Error when building using older Hugo versions (#65)
• Error when serving sites using blogdown (#66)

1.6.0 - 2021-12-21

Added

• Article word counts (#57)
• Last updated dates on articles
• Icons for Amazon, Apple, Flickr, Google, Kickstarter, Microsoft, Patreon, Telegram, Tumblr and WhatsApp

Changed

• Adjusted contrast of some items to improve accessibility
• Upgrade to Chart.js v3.6.2
• Upgrade to Mermaid v8.13.6

Fixed

• Missing ARIA descriptions and alt tags on some images and links

1.5.3 - 2021-11-18

Changed

• Updated Chinese translation (#32)

Fixed

• Article pagination uses date of current article (#32)

1.5.2 - 2021-11-10

Added

• German translation (#27)
• Portuguese (Brazil) translation (#28)
• Spanish translation (#30)

Fixed

• Article pagination link spacing (#26)
• Minor icon style issues

1.5.1 - 2021-11-04

Fixed

• Hugo failing to build site when deploying as a module

1.5.0 - 2021-11-04

Added

• Chart.js support using chart shortcode
• KaTeX support using katex shortcode
• Dark mode toggle with new theme parameters for managing light/dark appearance
• French translation (#18)
• Author bio in article footer
• Grouping by year can now be specified in front matter on list pages

Changed

• Site name, author and menus will now render Markdown and Emoji
• Bundled Mermaid for better vendor dependency management
• Mermaid diagrams are now themed to match the configured colour scheme
• Upgrade to Tailwind v2.2.19

Fixed

• Site logo image dimensions are unconstrained (#19)
• Article summary styled incorrectly in dark mode
• Links containing code blocks styled incorrectly

1.4.0 - 2021-10-20

Added

• Footer menu
• Article summary support
• Slate colour scheme (#9)
• Icons for ORCID and ResearchGate (#9)
• Pinterest sharing links
• Sharing links can now be specified in front matter

Changed

• Main menu is now optional
• Upgrade to Mermaid v8.13.3
• Upgrade to Tailwind v2.2.17

Fixed

• Site logo not linked to home page (#13)

1.3.0 - 2021-09-29

Added

• Site logo support
• Chinese translation (#2)

Changed

• Upgrade to Tailwind v2.2.16

1.2.1 - 2021-08-26

Added

• New robots parameter to add metadata to guide robots on how to handle specific content

Changed

• URLs are relative by default which allows the theme to be more flexible in different deployment scenarios

Fixed

• Missing dark style for group subheadings on article listings
• Fathom Analytics script included twice when using custom domain
• Recent heading on homepage profile layout misaligned

1.2.0 - 2021-08-22

Added

• Multiple colour schemes
• Edit links on article pages
• Icons for Foursquare and Pinterest
• Asset fingerprinting and SRI
• CSS minification for custom stylesheets

Changed

• Static assets are now managed through Hugo Pipelines

Fixed

• Minor style issue with button shortcode
• Hugo Modules would fail when using default theme config file
• Some content not centred correctly on the profile homepage layout
• Some links missing the correct styles when in Firefox
• externalUrl front matter not working on some list pages

1.1.1 - 2021-08-19

Fixed

• Hotfix for exampleSite and GitHub configuration

1.1.0 - 2021-08-18

Added

• Breadcrumbs
• i18n support
• Recent articles partial
• CSS transitions
• Hugo module support
• JSON-LD structured metadata

Changed

• ⚠️ Renamed parameter: homepage.showList -> homepage.showRecent
• ⚠️ Renamed parameter: homepage.listSections -> mainSections
• ⚠️ Consolidated author configuration parameters into config.toml
• General style tweaks to enhance design consistency

Fixed

• URLs being incorrect in some cases when the site is deployed in a subfolder

1.0.0 - 2021-08-16

Added

• Built with Tailwind CSS JIT for minified stylesheets without any excess code
• Fully responsive layout
• Dark mode (auto-switching based upon browser)
• Highly customisable configuration
• Multiple homepage layouts
• Flexible with any content types, taxonomies and menus
• Ability to link to posts on third-party websites
• Diagrams and visualisations using Mermaid JS
• SVG icons from FontAwesome 5
• Heading anchors, Buttons, Badges and more
• HTML and Emoji support in articles
• SEO friendly with links for sharing to social media
• RSS feeds
• Fathom Analytics and Google Analytics support
• Favicons support
• Comments support
• Advanced customisation using simple Tailwind colour definitions and styles
• Fully documented