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<p>A new day, a new release! Jekyll just turned 2.5.0 and has gained a lot of
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<li>Require plugins in the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">:jekyll_plugins</code> Gemfile group (turned off with an environment variable)</li>
<li>YAML Front Matter permalinks can now contain placeholders like <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">:name</code>. Check out all the placeholders on the <a href="/docs/permalinks/">Permalinks docs page</a>.</li>
<li>The <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">jsonify</code> filter now deep-converts arrays to liquid.</li>
<li>Shorted <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">build</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">serve</code> commands with <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">b</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">s</code> aliases, respectively</li>
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<li>Any enumerable can be used with the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">where</code> filter.</li>
<li>Performance optimizations thanks to <a href="https://github.com/tmm1" class="user-mention">@tmm1</a>’s <a href="https://github.com/tmm1/stackprof">stackprof</a>
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<li>Security auditors will love this: path sanitation has now been centralized.</li>
<li>Specify a log level with <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">JEKYLL_LOG_LEVEL</code>: debug, info, warn, or error.</li>
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<p>…and a whole bunch of other fixes and enhancements you can read more
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<p>As always, if you run into issues, please <a href="https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues">check the issues</a>
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If you just need some help, the extraordinary <a href="">jekyll help team is here for
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<p><em>When was the <a href="https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/commit/d189e05d236769c1e5594af9db4d6eacb86fc16e">first commit to Jekyll</a>?
All the way back on October 19, 2008. It features interesting historical
tidbits, such as the old name for Jekyll was “autoblog”, and was first
released via Rubyforge. What a difference 6 years has made!</em></p>
<p>Thanks to the following contributors for making this release possible:</p>
<p>Parker Moore, XhmikosR, Alfred Xing, Ruslan Korolev, Pat Hawks,
chrisfinazzo, Mike Kruk, Tanguy Krotoff, Matt Hickford, Philipp Rudloff,
Rob Murray, Sean Collins, Seth Warburton, Tom Thorogood, Vasily Vasinov,
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