Version 1.5

Changes

• Added new Markdown parser (for GitHub Flavored Markdown). Markdown can now contain tables and some other new things.
• Added data parser for plain text files (*.txt). (The string contents are just returned as-is.)
• markdown is now a module instead of a function.
• toml and json are now aliases for their .parse() functions.
• XML module: Added functions: xml.decodeEntities()
• XML module: Added settings: xml.htmlAllowNoAttributeValue, xml.htmlScrambleEmailAddresses

Version 1.4

LuaWebGen has a new website! Documentation has moved here.

Changes

• Added syntax for heredoc strings.
• Added functions: percent(), urlRaw().
• Added options: --baseurloverride, --meta, --fullpaths, --nogc.
• Added better example sites.
• Better support for when baseUrl is pointing to a subdirectory. (url(), {{url}} and other related code now fixes relative paths.)
• include() can now take take extra arguments for the target layout to receive.
• A warning is printed when page.date hasn't been updated for a page (except for index and special pages).
• Much faster getImageDimensions() for most images.
• Fixed "#" in redirection targets getting messed up and messing other stuff up.
• Fixed config.rewriteOutputPath() sometimes having the wrong context.
• Fixed a couple of error messages missing some information.

Version 1.3.1

Changes

• Fixed non-page templates not getting processed before pages.
• Added minimal example site.
• Printing more verbose info.

Version 1.3

Changes

• Added JSON as a supported data format.
• Added "xml" as a new template file type (for e.g. RSS feeds and sitemaps).
• Added commands new feed and new sitemap.
• Added site.description.
• Added page.description and page.dateModified.
• Added global utf8 module.
• Added global scripts object (similar to data).
• Added functions: summarize(), getGeneratedPages(), echoSmart(), isValueHtml(), clampArray(), gmatchAndBetween(), json.parse(), toml.parse().
• Added --date option for specifying the date to build for.
• subpages() can now take a path prefix as an argument.
• Trying to access page.content too early or in an invalid situation will now raise an error.
• Improved some error messages.
• Fixed subpages() including pages in sibling folders whose name begins with the same name (e.g. /blog/index.md included pages under /blogosphere/).
• XML module: All functions now work both on the library object and as methods on elements.
• XML module: Added functions: xml.contentsToXml(), xml.contentsToHtml(), xml.getHtmlText().
• XML module: xml.walk() now supports traversal actions by returning a value from the callback.

Version 1.2

Changes

• Added config.dataTextParsers and config.dataBinaryParsers for defining custom data file parsers.
• Added getDataTextParsers() and getDataBinaryParsers().
• Added new XML/HTML parsing module to replace the now-removed Penlight+LuaExpat dependency. (The Penlight API still works.)
• Fixed --autobuild stopping the program if there was an error during the build.
• The scripts folder can new have subfolders (just like the data folder).
• Fixed the context being wrong sometimes.
• All errors now (at least) log the traceback.
• Improved some parsing error messages.
• Rewrote/simplified the internal error handling system.
• Apache/htaccess: Error documents pointing to files are validated at the end of builds.

Version 1.1

Changes

• Added variant of generateFromTemplate() that takes a page initializer callback function.
• Added printObject().
• Line endings in read text files are normalized.
• Better XML parsing in Windows version. (CDATA sections now work.) (Universal version users should install LuaExpat.)
• Improved parsing of {{url}} blocks.
• Fixed Markdown parsing issue for links using angle brackets: [text](<url>)
• Removed usage of the <base> tag from new sites and pages.

Version 1.0

No more beta - it's time for version 1.0!

Changes

Code:

• Whitespace around code blocks can be trimmed away with {{* and *}}.
• Code block parsing is a lot more robust (e.g. {{fori {8,4,11}}} now works).
• Code blocks like {{--foo}} are no longer valid as }} is now part of the Lua comment.
• Added {{for < n}} and {{fori < arr}} for iterating backwards.
• Removed {{for -n}} (which used to iterate backwards).
• Fixed {{some-url-here}} not working with absolute URLs.

API:

• Added config.redirectionLayout for customizing redirection pages.
• Added config.ignorePaths.
• Added getOutputtedFiles().
• generateFromTemplate() can now take page parameters as an argument. (This reduces the need for formatTemplate().)
• Pages can use no layout by setting page.layout to an empty string.
• The check for whether {{expression}} results in HTML or text is now stricter (i.e. resulting in text more often).
• config.ignoreFiles and config.ignoreFolders no longer match things in the data folder.
• Removed isAny() variant isAny(valueToCompare,arrayOfValues). Calls need to be changed into isAny(valueToCompare,unpack(arrayOfValues)).
• Redirection functionality is more robust.
• Updated generated HTML for redirection pages.
• Renamed _WEBGEN_VERSION to WEBGEN_VERSION.
• Fixed simplified for loop only accepting numerals. It now accepts any value expression.
• Fixed accessing valid globals in the main chunk in config.lua resulting in context error.
• Fixed page properties being writable in layouts.
• Fixed line numbers being wrong in some error messages.
• Fixed possibility for internally generated Lua code to break because of function name shadowing.
• Smaller bug fixes.

Version 0.20

This is the first proper release!