7.7.0

• Ark now handles exceptions raised by extensions and prints a simple error message for users.

7.6.0

• The default monospace font for the graphite theme has been changed to Courier to provide more consistency between browsers.

7.5.0

• The source code license has been changed from the "Unlicense" to the "Zero-Clause BSD" license.
• The default graphite theme now supports page-level redirects.

7.3.0

• In the graphite theme, only show the copy button on hover.

7.2.0

• Add support for an automatic copy button to <pre> tags in the graphite theme.

7.1.0

• Update the Jinja2 dependency version from 2.x to 3.x.
• Update the PyYAML dependency version from 5.x to 6.x.

7.0.0

• Name change! The application, formerly Ivy, has reverted to its original name, Ark.
• Aside from the name change, there are no breaking changes in this release.
• You can find the last version of the code under the old Ivy name in the v6 branch of the repository.

6.4.0

• Ivy now accepts both site.py and config.py as valid names for the site configuration file.
• This release adds support for customizing the site configuration file name and site directory names using environment variables. See the options page for details.
• The extension option in the site configuraton file has been renamed to file_extension. The old name is deprecated but will continue to work in all v6.x releases.
• The root option in the site configuraton file has been renamed to root_url. The old name is deprecated but will continue to work in all v6.x releases.

6.3.0

• Update the Syntext dependency version to 3.x.

6.2.0

• Event and filter hooks are now implemented as enums instead of strings. This change is backwards compatible — string hook names will continue to work as before. (Thanks to gvwilson for the pull request.)

6.1.0

• This release adds support for disabling nodes — if a node has a disable flag in its metadata header, Ivy will not produce an output HTML page for it. (The disable flag only affects the node itself, not its children.)

6.0.0

• This release simplifies Ivy internally by merging Page objects into Node objects.
• Sites and themes should continue working unchanged from v5.x.
• Plugins may need to be updated if they interacted directly with Page objects.
• The following filters which previously passed Page objects have been renamed and moved to the nodes.py file: page_path, page_slugs, page_templates, page_classes. These filters now pass the relevant Node object instead.

5.1.0

• A new deploy command has been added. This command fires a deploy event hook which plugins can use to run site deployment scripts.
• The make command has been renamed to add to avoid confusion with the build command.

5.0.0

• There are no breaking changes to Ivy in this release but the Ibis dependency version has been updated to v3.0. If you've been using Ibis templates you should note that the default syntax for escaped print tags has changed to {$ varname $}.

4.1.0

• The internal logic of the hashing module has been simplified.
• The Node.update() method has been removed. You can call Node.meta.update() directly if required.

4.0.0

• There are no breaking changes to Ivy in this release. I've bumped the version number as two of Ivy's dependencies, the Shortcodes and Ibis packages, have been updated and users may want to test their sites for compatibility before updating.
• The Shortcodes dependency version has been updated to v5.0. The only difference end users should notice is improved error messages.
• The Ibis dependency version has been updated to v2.0. If you've been using Ibis templates you'll want to note that Django-style colon-syntax is no longer supported for function and filter arguments — you should use bracket-syntax instead. Also, variables that resolve to callables are no longer called automatically — you need to explicitly call functions using brackets, e.g. {{ some.func() }}.

3.5.0

• Improved error messages.

3.4.0

• A new convenience command, open, has been added for opening @root/ urls in the default browser.
• The argslib dependency has been updated to version 2.0.0.

3.3.0

• The Node.render() method has been replaced by making Node.html a dynamically-generated property. Internal caching has been added to nodes to reduce build time.

3.2.0

• The output of the tree command is now sorted by slug.

3.1.0

• All build command callbacks have been consolidated in the ivy/cli/build.py module.
• The end-of-build report has been updated.

3.0.0

• Most changes in this release are internal and won't affect existing sites or themes. Extensions will need to be updated but the required changes should be minor.
• One small change which may affect themes — the classes list for the <body> element is now a list of strings rather than a single string. These strings can be concatenated using a template filter as demonstrated in the bundled graphite theme.
• The most significant change for extensions is that the hooks module has been split into two separate modules, events and filters, to make its operation clearer and conceptually simpler. Existing @hooks.register() decorators in extensions will need to be renamed to either @events.register() or @filters.register() but should otherwise work unchanged.
• This release switches to a new library for parsing command line arguments, argslib. The command line interface has also been simplified by removing all options for customizing site directories (src, out, etc.). These directories can now be customized from the site's config.py file.
• In general, code has been ruthlessly simplified wherever possible. In particular, the internal structure of the node tree is now significantly simpler.
• URL path slugs are now customizable and no longer tied to filenames. The slug can be customized by adding a slug attribute to the node's metadata.
• The tree command for inspecting site structure has been substantially enhanced.
• A convenience command, make, has been added for creating new node files.
• @root/ urls in angle brackets are no longer rewritten. This "feature" was a solution in search of a problem.
• The nodes.node() function now takes an @root/ url and returns the corresponding Node instance.
• The is_homepage flag has been moved to the root page dictionary. The flags dictionary has been removed.
• The debug theme has been redesigned.
• The renderers module now defaults to passing unregistered text formats through unchanged.
• The Node.init() method has been replaced by Node.render(). The init_node and init_tree event hooks have been removed.
• The Page.render() method has been renamed Page.write().
• The sample shortcode extension has been replaced by a set of examples in the documentation.
• The shortcodes dependency version has been upgraded to 3.0. Shortcode handler functions will need to be updated to reflect the updated API.
• A build_node filter has been added to the default build routine in ivy/build.py. This filter can be used as a switch to determine which nodes get turned into pages.
• Two new filters, load_node_dir and load_node_file, have been added in ivy/nodes.py. These filters can be used as switches to determine which files and directories in src get parsed as nodes.
• The includes.py module has been replaced by a site.includes() function.
• The urls.py module has been replaced by a utils.rewrite_urls() function.
• The loader.py module has been replaced by a utils.loadfile() function.

2.10.0

• Update the required Python version to 3.8.
• Make the shortcodes package an optional dependency.
• Simplify the sample site configuration file.

2.9.0

• Check for a .py extension before attempting to load files from the extensions directory.
• Update the graphite theme's footnote and infobox styles.

2.8.0

• Add a menu_exclude option to omit nodes from automatically-generated menus.

2.7.0

• Simpler directory structure for newly initialized sites.
• The sample shortcode plugin has been moved into core.

2.6.0

• Add a --port option to the watch command to set the port number the test server will run on.

2.5.0

• Remove SSL support from the test server.

2.4.0

• Improved error handling and reporting for extension errors.
• Add a version tag to the graphite theme.
• The YAML extension now uses the safe_load() function to parse file headers.
• Add colored output for the tree command.
• Update the skeleton site to support Syntext 2.0.
• Files with a .stx or .sxt extension will be rendered as Syntext.
• Files with a .mk or .monk extension will no longer be rendered as Syntext.

2.3.0

• The cache file is now stored in %LOCALAPPDATA% instead of the user's home directory on Windows.

2.2.0

• Add Windows support for colored terminal output.
• Update Ivy to reflect the Monk to Syntext name change. Old .monk and .mk files will continue to work.
• Small improvements to mobile styles for the graphite theme.

2.1.0

• Add colored terminal output.

2.0.0

• Add Python 3.6 type hints throughout the codebase.
• Update the minimum required Python version to 3.6.
• Remove the vanilla theme from the default distribution.
• Update the debug theme.
• Refactor modules to clarify the distinction between public and private interfaces. Private methods and variables now have names beginning with an underscore.
• The default build process now skips empty nodes, i.e. nodes that correspond to a directory without an associated source file.
• Add Windows support for the watch command.
• Ivy now uses the presence of either a config.py file or a hidden .ivy file to identify a site's home directory.

1.3.0

• Remove deprecated support for source files in Syntex format.
• Minor improvements to graphite theme styles.

1.2.0

• Add a sample plugin to the skeleton site's ext directory that registers an [% include %] shortcode.

1.1.0

• Refactor url rewriting as a separate module.
• Fix a Windows bug in the algorithm for finding the site's home directory.
• Remove deprecated support for site.py site configuration files. These files should be renamed to config.py.

1.0.0

• First stable release. Future releases will adhere to semantic versioning for changes which affect the theme or plugin API.
• This release adds support for Monk files with a .mk extension.
• The default port for the serve command has been changed from 0 to 8080.
• The watch command now automatically launches the test server to view the site.
• We revert to the original algorithm for locating and rewriting @root/ urls, i.e. only urls enclosed in quotes or angle brackets will be rewritten. (Quotes are preserved, angle brackets evaporate.)

0.9.0

• Ivy has been updated to support Monk 1.0, the markup language previously named Syntex. Old .stx files will continue to be supported.

0.8.0

• The argument-parsing library for the command line interface has been changed from Clio to Janus.
• The default graphite theme now supports a meta description tag.

0.7.0

• The algorithm for locating and rewriting @root/ urls has been changed. Previously only @root/ urls enclosed in quotes or angle brackets were rewritten; now all @root/ urls are rewritten unless escaped by a preceding backslash.

0.6.0

• The site configuration file has been renamed from site.py to config.py. Old site.py files will continue to be recognised. (Some Python installations were confusing the site.py file with the standard library's site module, causing the interpreter to crash when Ivy was run from the site directory.)