1.903

• Open Graph metadata tags are now generated for any post that has an associated image (its own, or the blog-wide fallback image), whether or not the blog configures a facebook_id. This makes link previews work out of the box on Discord, Slack, Mastodon, and other services that read Open Graph data.

• Twitter Card support is no longer scaffolded or documented. The twitter_id directive still works, but it has been removed from the sample configuration file, since Open Graph metadata already drives link previews on X as well as everywhere else.

• The plerdall --init success message now points to the configuration file's real location (conf/plerd.conf), rather than a nonexistent path in the working directory's root.

• Fixed a test whose expected result depended on the local time zone, causing spurious failures when the suite ran anywhere west of US Eastern.

• Revised and refreshed the README documentation.

1.902

Maintenance release — bug fixes on top of 1.901.

Changes

• CRLF source files. Source files with Windows (CRLF) line endings are now normalized to LF throughout. Previously the in-place source rewrite left the body with CRLF line endings (mixed with LF metadata).
• Missing tags.tt. Publishing no longer dies when the optional tags.tt template is absent, so a blog with no tags can publish without it.
• Emoji-only titles. Posts whose titles consist entirely of characters that can't appear in a filename (such as emoji) no longer collide on a single YYYY-MM-DD-.html name; each now gets a distinct, stable filename derived from a hash of its title.
• index.html symlink. The docroot/index.html symlink now targets recent.html by basename rather than an absolute path, so it keeps working when the blog's docroot is moved or served from a different location.
• Consistent post ordering. Full and incremental publishing now share one ordering rule (date-descending, then basename-ascending), so the two paths can no longer disagree about ordering. Output order is unchanged.

Distribution on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/release/JMAC/Plerd-1.902

1.901

Maintenance release — a docs/packaging fix on top of 1.900.

Changes

• Fixed README generation. The CI badge and an "install Sweat" copy-paste typo are now corrected at the README.pod source, since README.md is generated from it by Minilla. (A prior release had regenerated README.md from a stale README.pod, which silently dropped the badge and reintroduced a 2020 typo.)

Distribution on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/release/JMAC/Plerd-1.901

1.900

First release since v1.820 (2019). The headline change is incremental publishing; this is also the release that promotes webmention sending to a supported feature and removes experimental webmention storage (spun off into Whim).

Highlights

• Incremental publishing. plerdwatcher now republishes incrementally on a source change, falling back to a full rebuild only when a change can affect shared pages (recent/archive/tag pages and feeds). This scales far better as a blog's archive grows.
• Atomic writes. All generated files are now written atomically (rendered to a temp file, then renamed into place), so a web server never serves a half-written or empty file, and a failed render leaves the previous file intact.
• Webmention sending promoted from experimental to a supported feature.
• Webmention storage removed. The experimental support for receiving/storing webmentions is gone (it lives on in the separate Whim project).

Other changes

• HTML is now stripped from JSON Feed titles.
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes list a post twice on a tag page.
• The default post template now shows a "Previous post" link in list view when older posts exist.
• Trailing whitespace is now stripped from metadata values.
• Assorted correctness and robustness fixes (with added tests), and hardened index.html symlink creation.
• Declared Digest::MD5 and JSON as dependencies.
• Now requires DateTime 1.54 or later; older versions could round-trip a post's W3C time value into an unparseable form. Thanks to Olivier Auverlot for the report.
• Continuous integration moved from the defunct Travis CI to GitHub Actions (Perl 5.32 / 5.36 / 5.40).

Distribution on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/release/JMAC/Plerd-1.900

v1.820

• Adding SSL support to Plerdwatcher.

• Displayed webmentions are now sorted by time they were published (versus the time they were received).

• Adding a trivial default handler on the webmention listener.

• Plerd now emits an intentional warning on publication if the blog contains tags that are identical except for case.

v1.601

• Fixing a bug that prevented the Webmention-receiving plerdwatcher process from accepting webmentions for posts created after it launched.

• Adding a (commented-out) <link rel="webmention [...] /> element to the set of sample templates. (Thanks to Karen Cravens for the bug report.)

• Separating the display of replies versus uncategorized webmentions, in the sample templates.

• Retroactively adding a bunch of entries to the 1.6 Changelog entry that I forgot about in the excitement of the Webmention stuff.

v1.6

• Adding experimental support for Webmention sending, receiving, and display.

• If a template fails to process, Plerd will now die with a meaningful error message.

• Adding a post_with_url method to Plerd objects.

• Adding Microformats2 metadata to the sample templates.

v1.55

• Fixed a bug where higher-than-ASCII characters could get double-encoded in certain contexts.

v1.54

• Improving how Plerd handles UTF-8 source and template files. (Much like v1.44, except I think I got it right this time.)

• Adding mention of v1.52's alt-text improvement to the documentation.

v1.53

• Fixing a bug where Markdown symbols, if present in the first paragraph of a post's source file, would appear in default social-media description tags.

• Now requiring a minimum HTML::SocialMeta version.