Publ v0.7.31 released

There’s a new release of Publ. There’s no new features, but there’s a huge performance improvement.

I’d been having some performance issues where on my larger sites, the main Atom feed was taking a long time to render. It didn’t really bother me too much because thanks to aggressive caching it would only cause an occasional slow page load (on the order of a few seconds) every now and then, but I thought there was probably something wrong with the I/O characteristics of how pages render.

Boy howdy was I wrong about that.

Publ 0.6.6, Authl 0.4.0

I’ve just released new versions of Publ and Authl.

Publ v0.6.6 changes:

• Fixed a regression that made it impossible to log out
• Fixed a problem where WWW-Authenticate headers weren’t being cached properly
• Improve the changed-file cache-busting methodology
• Add object pooling to Entry, Category, and View (for a potentially big memory and performance improvement)

Authl v0.4.0 changes:

• Finally started to add unit tests
• Removed some legacy WebFinger code that was no longer relevant or ever touched
• Added a mechanism to allow providers to go directly to login, as appropriate
• Added friendly visual icons for providers which support them (a so-called “NASCAR interface”)

Publ v0.5.14 released!

Today I released v0.5.14 of Publ, which has a bunch of improvements:

• Fixed a bug in card retrieval when there’s no summary
• Admin panel works again
• Markdown entry headings now get individual permalinks (the presentation of which can be templated)
• Markdown entry headings can be extracted into an outline to be used for a table of contents
• Lots of performance improvements around ToC and footnote extraction, and template API functions in general

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