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2 date: 2015-02-22T04:10:06Z
3 description: "Hugo 0.13 is the largest Hugo release to date. The release introduced some long sought after features (pagination, sequencing, data loading, tons of template improvements) as well as major internal improvements. In addition to the code changes, the Hugo community has grown significantly and now has over 3000 stars on GitHub, 134 contributors, 24 themes and 1000s of happy users."
4 title: "Hugo 0.13"
5 categories: ["Releases"]
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8 The v0.13.0 release is the largest Hugo release to date. The release introduced
9 some long sought after features (pagination, sequencing, data loading, tons of
10 template improvements) as well as major internal improvements. In addition to
11 the code changes, the Hugo community has grown significantly and now has over
12 3000 stars on GitHub, 134 contributors, 24 themes and 1000s of happy users.
13
14 This release represents **448 contributions by 65 contributors**
15
16 A special shout out to [@bep](https://github.com/bep) and
17 [@anthonyfok](https://github.com/anthonyfok) for their new role as Hugo
18 maintainers and their tremendous contributions this release.
19
20 ### New major features
21 - Support for [data files](http://gohugo.io/extras/datafiles/) in [YAML](http://yaml.org/),
22 [JSON](http://www.json.org/), or [TOML](https://github.com/toml-lang/toml)
23 located in the `data` directory ([#885](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/885))
24 - Support for [dynamic content](http://gohugo.io/extras/dynamiccontent/) by loading JSON & CSV
25 from remote sources via GetJson and GetCsv in short codes or other layout
26 files ([#748](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/748))
27 - [Pagination support](http://gohugo.io/extras/pagination/) for home page, sections and
28 taxonomies ([#750](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/750))
29 - Universal sequencing support
30 - A new, generic Next/Prev functionality is added to all lists of pages
31 (sections, taxonomies, etc.)
32 - Add in-section [Next/Prev](http://gohugo.io/templates/variables/) content pointers
33 - `Scratch` -- [a "scratchpad"](http://gohugo.io/extras/scratch) for your node- and page-scoped
34 variables
35 - [Cross Reference](http://gohugo.io/extras/crossreferences/) support to easily link documents
36 together with the ref and relref shortcodes.
37 - [Ace](http://ace.yoss.si/) template engine support ([#541](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/pull/541))
38 - A new [shortcode](http://gohugo.io/extras/shortcodes/) token of `{{</* */>}}` (raw HTML)
39 alongside the existing `{{%/* */%}}` (Markdown)
40 - A top level `Hugo` variable (on Page & Node) is added with various build
41 information
42 - Several new ways to order and group content:
43 - `ByPublishDate`
44 - `GroupByPublishDate(format, order)`
45 - `GroupByParam(key, order)`
46 - `GroupByParamDate(key, format, order)`
47 - Hugo has undergone a major refactoring, with a new handler system and a
48 generic file system. This sounds and is technical, but will pave the way for
49 new features and make Hugo even speedier
50
51 ### Notable enhancements to existing features
52 - The [shortcode](http://gohugo.io/extras/shortcodes/) handling is rewritten for speed and
53 better error messages.
54 - Several improvements to the [template functions](http://gohugo.io/templates/functions/):
55 - `where` is now even more powerful and accepts SQL-like syntax with the
56 operators `==`, `eq`; `!=`, `<>`, `ne`; `>=`, `ge`; `>`, `gt`; `<=`,
57 `le`; `<`, `lt`; `in`, `not in`
58 - `where` template function now also accepts dot chaining key argument
59 (e.g. `"Params.foo.bar"`)
60 - New template functions:
61 - `apply`
62 - `chomp`
63 - `delimit`
64 - `sort`
65 - `markdownify`
66 - `in` and `intersect`
67 - `trim`
68 - `replace`
69 - `dateFormat`
70 - Several [configurable improvements related to Markdown
71 rendering](http://gohugo.io/overview/configuration/#configure-blackfriday-rendering:a66b35d20295cb764719ac8bd35837ec):
72 - Configuration of footnote rendering
73 - Optional support for smart angled quotes, e.g. `"Hugo"` → «Hugo»
74 - Enable descriptive header IDs
75 - URLs in XML output is now correctly canonified ([#725](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/725), [#728](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/728), and part
76 of [#789](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/789))
77
78 ### Other improvements
79 - Internal change to use byte buffer pool significantly lowering memory usage
80 and providing measurable performance improvements overall
81 - Changes to docs:
82 - A new [Troubleshooting](http://gohugo.io/troubleshooting/overview/) section is added
83 - It's now searchable through Google Custom Search ([#753](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/753))
84 - Some new great tutorials:
85 - [Automated deployments with
86 Wercker](http://gohugo.io/tutorials/automated-deployments/)
87 - [Creating a new theme](http://gohugo.io/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme/)
88 - [`hugo new`](http://gohugo.io/content/archetypes/) now copies the content in addition to the front matter
89 - Improved unit test coverage
90 - Fixed a lot of Windows-related path issues
91 - Improved error messages for template and rendering errors
92 - Enabled soft LiveReload of CSS and images ([#490](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/pull/490))
93 - Various fixes in RSS feed generation ([#789](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/789))
94 - `HasMenuCurrent` and `IsMenuCurrent` is now supported on Nodes
95 - A bunch of [bug fixes](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/commits/master)