v0.5.12 released, and lots of documentation fixes

Release notes

Today I got a fire lit under me and decided to do a bunch of bug fixing and general performance improvements.

Changes since v0.5.11:

• Fixed a micro-optimization which was causing some pretty bad cache problems (I really should write a blog entry about this but tl;dr micro-optimizations are usually bugs in disguise)
• Fixed an issue which was causing the page render cache to not actually activate most of the time (you know there’s going to be a ramble about this below…)
• Fixed a bunch of spurious log meessages about nested transactions
• Refactored the way that markup=False works, making it available from all Markdown/HTML contexts
• Changed no_smartquotes=True to smartquotes=False (no_smartquotes is retained for template compatibility) (although I missed this on entry.title; I’ve already committed a fix for the next version)
• Improve the way that the page render cache interacts with templates
• Fixed an issue where changing a template might cause issues to occur until the cache expires

Documentation improvements

• The Apache/nginx deployment guide is vastly improved:
  • Now it uses UNIX domain sockets instead of localhost ports, making service provisioning a bit easier
  • The systemd unit is now a user unit instead of a system unit, which improves security and also allows for gentler service restarts
• The git deployment guide has been updated per the above, and also some of the code snippets are cleaned up
• The information about HTML processing and image renditions has been consolidated and cleaned up
• Information about private posts and user configuration has also been cleaned up somewhat
• Also lots of updates to the beesbuzz.biz Publ templates

This site now self-hosted

I’d been running this website on Heroku’s free tier for a while, but it’s been getting enough traffic that it was getting close to my free runtime limit. So, I’ve moved this over to my own personal server.

However, the site repository is still configured to work with Heroku (as well as being self-hosted), and you can still access the Heroku instance at publ.herokuapp.com to see it in action. They should, for the most part, mirror one another.

Anyway, there will probably be some kinks to iron out in the meantime. But on the plus side, it means this site will finally be accessible via https!

Publ v0.5.11, Authl v0.3.5

Some fresh new versions of things.

Publ

Changes to Publ:

• Massive improvements to how footnotes are handled; now they get their own virtual section (so if you’re currently using footnotes you’ll need to update your templates!)¹
• Various performance improvements:
  • Some internal caching on image rendition stuff
  • Reduce contention in the content indexer (to hopefully make large sites more responsive on restart)
  • Minor optimizations to category.subcats
• Removed config.secret_key; now this should be configured on the application object per Flask standards
• Allow HTML attributes other than href and src to contain image renditions

Authl

• Improve WebFinger support
• Improve the JavaScript in the default Flask template

webmention.js v0.1.0 now on npm

Due to popular demand, there is now an NPM package for webmention.js. So, if you use npm as part of your site JavaScript workflow, now you can theoretically use this.

Thanks to André Jaenisch for his incredibly generous help in getting this set up!

And, if you run into any trouble (or have any suggestions for improvement), please open an issue.

(Full disclosure: I have even more of no idea what I’m doing than usual.)

Pushl v0.2.14, Authl v0.3.4

Double-whammy release today.

Pushl v0.2.13

I’ve released a new version of Pushl.

Changes since the last version:

• Added support for tracking entry URL changes
• Finally got around to adding type annotations and static analysis