September Streamlined: Meta Mends, Layout Leap, Hugo Harmony

What's Changed

• Removes image meta types that are not supported by realfavicongenerator.net a3a2e94
• remove safari-pinned-tab image 9fda6c0
  • realfavicongenerator.net removed a few image types (safari-pinned-tab.svg, mstile-150x150.png, safari-pinned-tab.svg)
  • These image types has been removed from meta tab
  • If you need these images for your use case, you can take in previous month's (August 2025) layouts/partials/site-meta.html into layouts/_partials/site-meta.html
• a link effect: box shadow extends a bit from content boundary ef824e3
  • A purely cosmetic change. It changes the look when a link is hovered in main content.
• fixed apple-mobile-web-app-title meta content 804fb9c
• add checks for humans.txt 1a3d62c
  • If no humans.txt exists in /static or no layouts has been defined, this prevents humans.txt link to be shown
• update viewport meta de4fa10
• Updated to new layout structure for Hugo version > 0.146.0 in 1b608e9 f52fca6 087bab9 4a5e788 e13a330. See the brief overview of this change below.

Breaking change notice

With the introduction of Hugo 0.146.0, Hugo implemented a new way how layouts are handled. You can find the complete list of changes here from Hugo

TL;DR is the layout templates are flattened. _default is removed, partials is renamed to _partials, shortcodes renamed to _shortcodes, _internal templates are removed and many more

Minimum version for this theme was bumped to 0.146.0. Debian is still struck with 0.140.0 (as of September 2025). You might want to at-least try to get 0.146.0 binary blob for building. See the commit ea8dcef to get a full rundown of the changes made in Staging branch.

Compatibility

With Hugo version v0.150.1

Full Changelog: v1.1.25...v1.1.26

Hugust Vibes: Merged Footer, Peek‑a‑Scroll Nav, and Multi‑Line Typewriter Magic.

What's Changed

• Update footer to merge Hugo and Hermit-V2 into a single line with tooltips 1578c79
• Add CopyrightDate variable for configuring copyright date format params.dateform.CopyrightDate = "2006" in hugo.toml 1578c79
• Show navbar when page scrolled to the end 38f093a
• Homepage subtitle typewriter supporting long and multi-line content 6abb637 Issue #131
  • Created additional scss file /themes/assets/scss/_variables.scss to hold variables for this functionality

Compatibility

With Hugo version v0.149.0

Full Changelog: v1.1.24...v1.1.25

Share the Love of Socially July

What's Changed

• Update social-share.html by @ukscone in #129
• Fixed the default functionality of date formats throughout the theme 967da76 #130

Compatibility

With Hugo version v0.148.2

Full Changelog: v1.1.23...v1.1.24

June-ture Updates : Polishing and Copyright images

What's Changed

• add fallback to i18n in header.html as well by @maurerle in #127
• Fix multiple sitemap generation on Single language site 1f37ca4
• Add: Copyright option for Featured image in post articles 95a9d4e (Issue #128)
  • Exposes below style variables in _colors.scss

  // Featured Image (or Background Image) Copyright section
  $featured-image-text: $bright-grey !default;
  $featured-image-background: rgba($arsenic, 0.45) !default;

  • Add below to article frontmatter (can be used for single-page and posts pages). Any valid HTML tags can also be used for styling.

  ImgCopyright: "By <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zermatt_(Unsplash).jpg'>Samuel Zeller</a>"

  • See it in action here
• Add: Defaults to dateform. Modify: Dateformats are now in a nested map a8764b8 (Issue #122)
  • This prevents breaking when building new site using hugo new site
  • Date formats are now in nested map

  [params.dateform]
      LongDate = "Jan 2, 2006"
      ShortDate = "Jan 2"
      NumDateShort = "2006-01-02"
      NumDateLong = "2006-01-02 15:04 -0700"

Special Thanks goes to

• @maurerle
• @michelepagot

Compatibility

With Hugo version v0.147.9

Full Changelog: v1.1.22...v1.1.23

Image gallery... May-zing!

What's Changed

• New: Gallery for images (Initial commit)
• Fix: Only load gallery.js when gallery shortcode is used (#119) #119
• Update dimmed-opacity to conform to accessibility. #121
• Warn if params.gallery.enable is not true for gallery shortcode. Gallery shortcode compatiblity for Hugo versions below 0.136.4.
• Fix: Only load gallery.js when gallery shortcode is used by @amongil in #119

New Contributors

• @amongil made their first contribution in #119

Special Thanks goes to

• @maurerle

Compatibility

• With Hugo version 0.147.6

Full Changelog: v1.1.21...v1.1.22

Tag, Print, and Be Merry!

What's Changed

• Change: tags and category links in list.html. Solves issue #117 bac7d1b
• Add: Option to customize print styling by using print:true in frontmatter and adding (/assets/custom_css/print.scss) cd1e3e4

In planning

• Request for Comment : Gallery Grid #118

Compatibility

• With Hugo version 0.145.0

Full Changelog: v1.1.20...v1.1.21

February Fixes & Feats: A Layouts Update!

What's Changed

• fix spacing before word count by @maurerle in #110
• rss: rename posts to be working correctly by @maurerle in #113
• fix rss image relying on site.BaseURL by @maurerle in #112
• feat: better tag support by @dkolb in #116
  • listLayout : Control what rendering to be shown in various list view
    • legacy - Display legacy view, where Tags and Categories are grouped by date. Else Tags and Categories are sorted by number of posts/articles with each tag/category is descending order.
    • description - To show/hide posts' description in list view
    • tags - To show/hide posts' tags in list view
    • categories - To show/hide posts' categories in list view

New Contributors

• @maurerle made their first contribution in #110
• @dkolb made their first contribution in #116

Compatibility

• With Hugo version 0.145.0

Full Changelog: v1.1.19...v1.1.20

January Jamboree: A Month of Mayhem

What's Changed

• Add : layouts/_default/_markup/render-heading.html to separate Heading rendering from main layout. 46a1f23
• Moved : userstyles.scss to end of styles.scss to have higher priority over in-built styles. 46a1f23
• Add : layouts/posts/rss.xml to help rss.xml generate links of images in RSS a42ca01
• Remove : Meta author and description tags from layouts/_default/baseof.html 5cc24ab
• Add : Meta author and description tags in layouts/partials/site-meta.html 5cc24ab
• Modify : Footer now uses .Site.Title and not .Site.Params.author.name 5cc24ab
• Add : Option to add customized footer in different sections of the site by creating below partials in /layouts/partials eb40552
  • For homepage (or landing page), index-footer.html
  • For article list pages, list-footer.html
  • For single pages (which are not articles), single-footer.html
  • For posts/articles pages, posts-footer.html
• Modify : Proper logic to show Last Modified date 19bd342
• Scroll to top now uses CSS only (for chromium based browsers, or any browser that supports animation-timeline: scroll()). If support is not found, fallback to JavaScript implementation 4d32428
• Modify : Google tag manager scripts is consolidated into one layout layouts/partials/google-tag-manager.html 41d414f

Full Changelog: v1.1.18...v1.1.19

Hue's the change: Colour customisation is now in palette!

What's Changed

• Add Threads icon by @ukscone in #104
• Add customisation for the colours throughout the theme e5cff1c
• Add another optional site variable accentColor

New Contributors

• @ukscone made their first contribution in #104

Compatibility

• With Hugo version 0.140.2

Full Changelog: v1.1.17...v1.1.18

Menu-ally & Robot-tically fixed. That Figures

What's Changed

• Fix : mobile menu staying open when resizing from Mobile to Desktop view. Issue #99
• Fix : Figure shortcode can work with images in /static folder. See Figure Shortcode for detailed example. Issue #101
• Add : Robots.txt template. Set enableRobotsTXT to true in hugo.toml to auto generate. Commit d4f7612

‼️‼️Next Release would be breaking colors.scss if you're using it. 3 more weeks to go.

Full Changelog: v1.1.16...v1.1.17