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CHANGELOG

All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.

The project underwent a major maintenance shift in March 2022.

This website is built from the HEAD of the main branch of the theme repository.

This website includes docs for some new features that are not available in v0.4.0.rc2 and v0.3.3!

Changes to main that are not in the latest pre-release:

  • Fixed: incorrect disambiguation in generated TOCs by @pdmosses in #999
  • Fixed: typo in changelog links @koppor in #1000
  • Fixed: duplicated external links in collections by @pdmosses in #1001
  • Fixed: import order of custom.scss; puts at end by @deseo in #1010

Pre-release v0.4.0.rc3

Hi there! This is (actually) hopefully the last prerelease before v0.4.0; in particular, if we find that this prerelease is stable, we’ll re-release it as v0.4.0.

In general, this is a more mature pre-release; there are few new features. However, we’ll highlight @pdmosses’s work in #992 to better optimize nav generation for large sites (ex 100+ pages). We don’t expect this to affect most users; however, it is technically a breaking change, and we suggest testing your site before upgrading to this prerelease.

We want your feedback! Please open an issue or start a discussion and let us know!

As soon as we get stable test results from major downstream users, we’ll push out a v0.4.0 ASAP - closing out almost 2 years of backlogged work!

Trying out pre-release v0.4.0.rc3

Simlar to the prior release, v0.4.0.rc3 is a release candidate for the theme (i.e., a pre-release) with release v0.4.0 coming soon. We want your help in testing the changes! As of now, the gem on RubyGems and the repository are updated to v0.4.0.rc3.

To use this RC explicitly as a remote theme:

remote_theme: just-the-docs/just-the-docs@v0.4.0.rc3

To use this RC explicitly as a gem-based theme, pin the version in your Gemfile and re-run bundle install or bundle update just-the-docs:

gem "just-the-docs", "0.4.0.rc3"

By default, users will not be upgraded to 0.4.0.rc3. To enforce that explicitly, either:

  1. pin your gem version in your Gemfile, like so
    gem "just-the-docs", "0.3.3"
  2. freeze the remote_theme, like so
    remote_theme: just-the-docs/just-the-docs@v0.3.3

Features

Broadly, this prerelease is feature-light!

Bugfixes and Experimental Features

Note: experimental nav optimization may be unstable. Please give us feedback!

  • Added: experimental nav optimization for simple cases by @pdmosses in #992
  • Fixed: spacing issue when search is disabled by @henryiii in #960
  • Fixed: active grandchild link class by @pdmosses in #962
  • Fixed: HTML validation issues (W3C validator) by @mattxwang in #964
  • Fixed: link styling now uses text-decoration values by @mattxwang in #967
  • Fixed: cleaning up Jekyll excludes by @pdmosses in #985
  • Fixed: docs, narrow styling for code highlighting with line numbers by @pdmosses in #974
  • Fixed: default syntax highlighting in custom color schemes @pdmosses in #986

Full Changelog: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/compare/v0.4.0.rc2…v0.4.0.rc3

Pre-release v0.4.0.rc2

This website includes docs for some new features that are not available in v0.4.0.rc1 and v0.3.3!

Hey there! This is likely the last pre-release before releasing v0.4.0, which we plan on doing soon (i.e. before the end of the month) - very exciting! Some new additions to highlight:

  • significant improvement on build time of navigation panel by @pdmosses
    • this is big: for a community member with over 300 pages, we shortened the build time from 3 minutes to 30 seconds!
  • improved accessibility features led by @JPrevost
  • more docs!

The intention of this release candidate is to gather even more feedback on a potential v0.4.0. As it stands, we have not encountered any breaking changes with early adopters of v0.4.0.rc1. If you encounter any - for either of our pre-releases - please let us know!

Trying out pre-release v0.4.0.rc2

Simlar to the prior release, v0.4.0.rc2 is a release candidate for the theme (i.e., a pre-release) with release v0.4.0 coming soon. We want your help in testing the changes! As of now, the gem on RubyGems and the repository are updated to v0.4.0.rc2.

To use this RC explicitly as a remote theme:

remote_theme: just-the-docs/just-the-docs@v0.4.0.rc2

To use this RC explicitly as a gem-based theme, pin the version in your Gemfile and re-run bundle install or bundle update just-the-docs:

gem "just-the-docs", "0.4.0.rc2"

By default, users will not be upgraded to 0.4.0.rc2. To enforce that explicitly, either:

  1. pin your gem version in your Gemfile, like so
    gem "just-the-docs", "0.3.3"
  2. freeze the remote_theme, like so
    remote_theme: just-the-docs/just-the-docs@v0.3.3

Features

Documentation and Maintenance

New Contributors

Pre-release v0.4.0.rc1

We’re back!

Hi all! The Just the Docs team is excited to have our first pre-release in over two years! It is jam-packed with features and bugfixes that have been requested by the community since 2020. They include:

  • The new callouts component
  • Allowing pages and collections to coexist on the navigation pane
  • New styling: dark syntax highlighting, support for jekyll-asciidoc, word-wrapping instead of overflow for various elements
  • More customization: external nav links, custom nav footers, favicon includes, search color and placeholder configuration, mermaid.js support, and nav sorting
  • Over 20 bugfixes! Big ones include fixing the rake command, using relative_url, and search input color
  • More documentation, especially on using custom includes
  • Updating core dependencies to stable Ruby versions
  • A WIP template repository that allows you to setup your own repository using Just the Docs and GitHub Pages with one click - give it a shot! More documentation, etc. is on the way!

We want your feedback! Are these changes helpful? Are our docs easy to understand? Should new features like mermaid be opt-in or opt-out? Please open an issue or start a discussion and let us know!

Trying out pre-release v0.4.0.rc1

Due to the massive scope of these changes, we’re making v0.4.0.rc1 avaialble as a release candidate for the theme (i.e., a pre-release) with release v0.4.0 coming soon. We want your help in testing the changes! As of now, the gem on RubyGems and the repository are updated to v0.4.0.rc1.

To use this RC explicitly as a remote theme:

remote_theme: just-the-docs/just-the-docs@v0.4.0.rc1

To use this RC explicitly as a gem-based theme, pin the version in your Gemfile and re-run bundle install or bundle update just-the-docs:

gem "just-the-docs", "0.4.0.rc1"

Staying on v0.3.3

If you’re not ready to make the switch, that’s alright! If your version of just-the-docs is pinned to v0.3.3 (i.e. by a Gemfile.lock or in remote_theme, then there’s nothing you need to do.

If you have not pinned your theme version, you should either:

  1. pin your gem version in your Gemfile, like so
    gem "just-the-docs", "0.3.3"
  2. freeze the remote_theme, like so
    remote_theme: just-the-docs/just-the-docs@v0.3.3

Use of branches for closed PRs (e.g., #466, #578) is now deprecated, as those branches have been (directly or indirectly) merged, and they may be deleted after the pre-release of v0.4.0.rc1.

Maintenance

Internally, our maintainer team has expanded: Patrick Marsceill, the original maintainer, has stepped down from an active role after almost 4 years! We’re very thankful for the work that he’s done to create and maintain one of the most popular Jekyll themes. Please join us in giving him thanks!

The new core team currently consists of @mattxwang, @pdmosses, @skullface, @dougaitken, and @max06. Over the past six months, we’ve been triaging and merging in PRs, as well as contributing our own fixes. We’ll continue to address open issues, merge in PRs from the community, and plan out the future of Just the Docs. If you’d like to contribute, now is a great time!

Roadmap

In the short-term, we’re committed to tidying up everything for a v0.4.0 release. This involves fixing bugs reported from the community in this pre-release, as well as continually merging in minor PRs.

We’re also scoping out medium and long-term projects, and want to keep you in the loop. These include:

  • upgrading to Jekyll 4, and stopping support for Jekyll 3
  • versioned docs - issue #728
  • improved accessibility - issues #566, #870
  • internationalization (i18n) - issue #59
  • recursive/multi-level navigation - PR #462
  • toggleable dark mode - issue #234

as well as DX improvements like better regression tests, CI, and tooling. If you’re interested in any of these, please join us on GitHub - any contribution (raising an issue, writing docs, or submitting a PR) is welcome!

Features

  • Added: Combination by @pdmosses in #578
    • Added: dark highlighting in #463
    • Added: pages and collections in #448
    • Added: callouts in #466
    • Fixed: breadcrumb behaviour … by @AdityaTiwari2102 in #477
    • Fixed: prevent rake command corrupting search data in #495 (also listed below)
    • Fixed: nested lists in #496
    • Fixed: set color for search input in #498 (also listed below)
    • Fixed: sites with no child pages (no PR)
    • Fixed: TOC/breadcrumbs for multiple collections in #494
    • Added: collection configuration option nav_fold (no PR)
    • Fixed: indentation and color for folded collection navigation (no PR)
    • Fixed: scroll navigation to show the link to the current page in #639
    • Fixed: Replace all uses of absolute_url by relative_url, by @svrooij in #544
  • Added: custom favicon _includes by @burner1024 in #364
  • Added: set color for search input by @pdmosses in #498
  • Added: search placeholder configuration by @mattxwang in #613
  • Added: ‘child_nav_order’ front matter to be able to sort navigation pages in reverse by @jmertic in #726
  • Added: nav_footer_custom include by @nathanjessen in #474
  • Added: style fixes for jekyll-asciidoc by @alyssais in #829
  • Added: mermaid.js support by @nascosto in #857
  • Added: support for external navigation links by @SPGoding in #876
  • Added: refactor mermaid config to use mermaid_config.js include, only require mermaid.version in _config.yml by @mattxwang in #909
  • Fixed: prepend site.collections_dir if exists by @alexsegura in #519
  • Fixed: nested task lists (#517) by @pdmosses in #855
  • Fixed: suppress Liquid processing in CSS comments by @pdmosses in #686
  • Fixed: prevent rake command from corrupting search data by @pdmosses in #495
  • Fixed: anchor heading links should be visible on focus by @jacobhq in #846
  • Fixed: add overflow-x: auto to figure.highlight by @iridazzle in #727
  • Fixed: add overflow-wrap: word-break to body by @iridazzle in #889
  • Fixed: vertical alignment for consecutive labels by @Eisverygoodletter in #893
  • Fixed: allow links to wrap by @pdmosses in #905
  • Fixed: nav scroll feature and absolute/relative URLs by @pdmosses in #898

Documentation

Maintenance

Dependencies

  • Upgrade to GitHub-native Dependabot by @dependabot-preview in #627
  • [Security] Bump y18n from 3.2.1 to 3.2.2 by @dependabot-preview in #606
  • [Security] Bump hosted-git-info from 2.7.1 to 2.8.9 by @dependabot-preview in #641
  • [Security] Bump lodash from 4.17.19 to 4.17.21 by @dependabot-preview in #640
  • [Security] Bump ini from 1.3.5 to 1.3.8 by @dependabot-preview in #511
  • Bump path-parse from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 by @dependabot in #699
  • Bump ajv from 6.10.0 to 6.12.6 by @dependabot in #766
  • Bump prettier from 2.1.2 to 2.5.1 by @dependabot in #787
  • Bump prettier from 2.5.1 to 2.6.2 by @dependabot in #809
  • Bump prettier from 2.6.2 to 2.7.1 by @dependabot in #864

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/compare/v0.3.3…v0.4.0.rc1

v0.3.3

🚀 Features

  • Add custom header and footer include files @CodeSandwich (#334)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Limit the effect of nav_exclude to the main navigation @pdmosses (#443)
  • Update normalize.scss @pdmosses (#444)
  • Update code.scss @pdmosses (#445)
  • Fix list alignment @pdmosses (#446)

🧰 Maintenance

  • Bump stylelint-config-primer from 9.0.0 to 9.2.1 @dependabot-preview (#451)
  • Bump stylelint from 13.6.1 to 13.7.2 @dependabot-preview (#440)
  • Bump @primer/css from 15.1.0 to 15.2.0 @dependabot-preview (#436)
  • Bump prettier from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 @dependabot-preview (#429)

v0.3.2

Changes

  • Safe page sorting @pdmosses (#411)
  • v0.3.2 @pmarsceill (#388)

🚀 Features

  • make font-sizes sass variables so they can be changed @pdebruic (#361)
  • run the site locally inside docker container @fogfish (#398)
  • Feature/doc collections @SgtSilvio (#379)
  • Adjust dl layout @pdmosses (#401)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Add site.gh_edit_source to “Edit this page on GitHub” link @mrfleap (#418)
  • Inhibit text-transform for code in h4 @pdmosses (#404)
  • Fix native font stack precedence issue on Windows systems. @hvianna (#331)
  • Support for the linenos option on highlighted code @pdmosses (#375)
  • Update anchor_headings.html @pdmosses (#399)
  • Fix https @marksie1988 (#359)

🧰 Maintenance

  • Bump prettier from 2.0.5 to 2.1.1 @dependabot-preview (#427)
  • Bump prettier from 2.0.5 to 2.1.1 @dependabot-preview (#419)
  • [Security] Bump lodash from 4.17.15 to 4.17.19 @dependabot-preview (#389)
  • Bump @primer/css from 14.4.0 to 15.1.0 @dependabot-preview (#402)
  • Bump lodash from 4.17.15 to 4.17.19 @dependabot (#384)
  • Bump @primer/css from 14.4.0 to 15.0.0 @dependabot-preview (#371)

v0.3.1

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Improve accessibility by adding label to Anchor links. @mscoutermarsh (#376)

🧰 Maintenance

  • Remove collapsible TOC on nav doc @pmarsceill (#368)
  • Pdmosses collapsible toc @pmarsceill (#367)

v0.3.0

Changes

  • v0.2.9 @pmarsceill (#306)

🚀 Features

  • Add print styles @pmarsceill (#362)
  • Navigation improvements and search sections @SgtSilvio (#352)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Remove constraint with jekyll 4.1.0 @PierrickMartos (#348)

🧰 Maintenance

  • Bump version numbers @pmarsceill (#360)
  • Bump stylelint from 13.3.3 to 13.6.1 @dependabot-preview (#343)
  • Bump stylelint-config-prettier from 8.0.1 to 8.0.2 @dependabot-preview (#349)

v0.2.9

Bug fixes

  • Horizontal Alignment #103 @pmarsceill
  • Code snippet in headers do not inherit font size #140 @pmarsceill
  • Fix duplicated title and description tags #294 @iefserge
  • Update nav.html for handling nav_exclude #282 @blawqchain
  • Fix duplicate entries in nav.html and default.html #239 @KasparEtter
  • Don’t show pages with no title (e.g. redirects in nav) https://github.com/pmarsceill/just-the-docs/pull/295/commits/672de29f2e332a9350af7237e4fb6693c848989e @SgtSilvio
  • [SEARCH RAKE] Fix search generator #319 @RoiArthurB

Enhancements

  • Improvement/custom themes #186 @SgtSilvio
  • feat: adds “edit this page” and “page last modified” to footer #217 @malsf21
  • feat: adds option to open aux links in new tab #229 @malsf21
  • Default nav order #236 @pdmosses
  • Enable IP anonymization in Google Analytics (GDPR) #250 @r-brown

closes #240 #308 #266 #140 #103

v0.2.8

Bugfixes

  • bugfix in search.rake #218 @tiaitsch85

Dependency and security updates:

  • Update jekyll requirement from ~> 3.8.5 to >= 3.8.5, < 4.1.0 #197 @dependabot-preview
  • Update rake requirement from ~> 12.3.1 to >= 12.3.1, < 13.1.0 #227 @dependabot-preview
  • Bump stylelint-config-primer from 8.0.0 to 9.0.0 #247 @dependabot-preview
  • Update bundler requirement from ~> 2.0.1 to ~> 2.1.4 #268 @dependabot-preview
  • Bump @primer/css from 12.7.0 to 14.3.0 #296 @dependabot-preview

Operations

  • Update CI to test multiple versions of Jekyll
  • Update CI to check the rake command that builds the search file

fixes #291 #256 #293 #177

v0.2.7

Bugs fixed

  • Anchor headings are now displayed on hover, not only on heading hover
  • Deduplicated anchor heading svg
  • If last page of site.html_pages was excluded from search, search json breaks
  • Config variable should be blanklines not blank_lines for html compression
  • list-style-none does not hide bullets on ul

Enhancements

  • Summary for child pages appears in generated TOC
  • Site logo configuration supported replacing title text with image
  • Allow custom CSS overrides (new scss partial at the end of the cascade) separate from variable overrides.
  • Configuration around search strings added to allow search for hyphenated words

Maintenance

  • Update docs to suggest using index.md as section page filename
  • Bump @primer/css from 12.6.0 to 12.7.0
  • Bump mixin-deep from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2
  • Bump stylelint-config-primer from 7.0.1 to 8.0.0

PR included

  • #98 by @stefanoborini Introduces the possibility for a summary in the table of contents
  • #141 by @ghabs Fix trailing comma bug in search-data.json
  • #153 by @jacobherrington Change button copy on theme preview
  • #181 by @m3nu Recommend using index.md as parent page for sections
  • #183 by @SgtSilvio Improve heading anchors
  • #187 by @SgtSilvio Improvement/site logo
  • #200 Bump mixin-deep from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2
  • #203 by @pdmosses Search config
  • #205 by @pdmosses Fix blank_lines var to blanklines in config.yml
  • #206 by @iamcarrico Allow for custom overrides by the user
  • #208 Bump @primer/css from 12.6.0 to 12.7.0
  • #213 Bump mixin-deep from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2
  • #214 Bump stylelint-config-primer from 7.0.1 to 8.0.0
  • #215 Bump @primer/css from 12.6.0 to 12.7.0

v0.2.6

Bugs fixed

  • Google Analytics tag has been updated #162
  • ~BaseURL has been modified #109~ Reverted – seems the existing implementation worked
  • Titles can now wrap fixes #106

Enhancements

  • Search now displays content preview #135
  • Custom footer content added #179
  • Now using GitHub Actions for CI #170

Maintenance

  • lunrjs upgraded #135
  • Nav generation is optimized #159
  • Stylelint upgrade #143
  • Stylelint config primer upgrade #149
  • Lodash upgrade #160

PR included

~#109 by @daviddarnes - Fix baseurl link~ Reverted #135 by @SgtSilvio - Upgrades lunr.js, improves search UI, adds heading anchors #152 by @yavorg - Improves syntax highlighting for js readablity #159 by @julienduchesne - Optimizes nav generation #162 by @nergmada - Modifies the google analytics code to match the new tags used by GA

v0.2.5

Bugs fixed

  • Duplicate title tag when Jekyll SEO Plugin gem is used #125 #126

Enhancements

  • Favicon support added #118

Maintenance

  • Bump stylelint-config-primer from 6.0.0 to 7.0.0 #123
  • Bump @primer/css from 12.2.3 to 12.3.1 #129
  • Add workflow to publish to GPR
  • Fix workflow to publish to Ruby Gems

v0.2.4

Bugs

  • #102 Remove unnecessary console.log() @JoeNyland
  • #97 Import custom Sass variable overrides before default variables are defined @montchr and @ptvandi

Additions

  • #117 Add links to docs for setting up GH pages locally @gnarea
  • #95 Add SEO and ‘lang’ param for _config @gebeto

v0.2.3

Enhancements

  • Adds ability to use Google Analytics tracking by @pmarsceill

Bug fixes

  • Fixes 404 error for “/assets/js//search-data.json” by @stephenedmondson
  • Fixes #80 Single quotes in the string were unescaped and ruby attempted variable substitution of amp within it (which failed) by @novelistparty
  • Fixes bug that would only show 2 or more search results (not one) by @ilivewithian
  • Fixes a typo on the layout example by @woernfl
  • Fixes #78 Page scroll position too far down on load by @pmarsceill
  • Fixds ability to nest ul in ol without breaking style or counters

Dependency updates

  • Bumps stylelint dependency from 9.9.0 to 9.10.1

v0.2.2

  • Bumps stylelint-config-primer to 3.0.1 #44
  • Bumps bundler req to 2.0.1 #61
  • Adds custom 404 page
  • Excludes package-lock.json from jekyll build #47
  • Fixes keyboard scrolling / focus #48
  • Adds ARIA roles to navigation elements
  • Adds support for optional page description metadata (if present in yaml front matter)
  • Addresses some issues with search in #46
  • Option to hide TOC on parent pages if turned off in page’s YAML front matter #30
  • Option to suppress an item from being indexed by search if present in page’s YAML front matter #32

v0.2.1

This update fixes security vulnerablities in the lodash sub-dependency and bumps other dev dependencies to their latest version.

v0.2.0

Adds:

  • Dark mode via color_scheme parameter
  • Ability to exclude a page from the main nav with nav_exclude parameter closes #21
  • Ability for create children of children pages (3 nav levels) closes #25

Changes:

  • Permalink structure for tiered navigation has been updated
  • Some colors have been updated for consistency / accessibility

v0.1.6

Added

  • Support for task list styles #19
  • Configuration docs
  • Configuration option to enable / disable search
  • Normalize.scss dependency pulled into project #16 #

Fixed

  • Layout bug in navigation #17

v0.1.5

Major changes:

  • Fixed bug where the rake task would fail when the assets/js directory didn’t exist

v0.1.4

Major changes:

  • Adds Rake as a runtime dependency
  • Definition list styled
  • Sidebar and support cleaned up for smaller screen support
  • Updated some stale docs

v0.1.3

Major changes:

  • Fix path problems, typos, and general clean-up for OSS.

v0.1.2

Fix paths when deployed to gh-pages

v0.1.1

Major updates:

  • Adds search to mobile nav
  • Pulls footer to bottom of the page on mobile (not hidden in nav)

Minor updates:

  • Cleans up h1 typography spacing