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Jekyll Turns 1.0

GitHub Pages — the easiest way to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects — just got a major upgrade. We’re now running Jekyll 1.0.2, which contains over…

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GitHub Pages — the easiest way to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects — just got a major upgrade. We’re now running Jekyll 1.0.2, which contains over 100 changes and new features. Some of the ones we’re most excited to start using:

  • Support for the Gist tag for easily embedding Gists (example)
  • Automatically generated post excerpts (example)
  • Save and preview drafts before publishing (example)
  • Lots of features that make creating and testing sites locally easier

You can read the full changelog to see exactly what’s new, and if you generally run Jekyll on your computer, we’d recommend you also check out the information on upgrading.

New to Jekyll? This release also marks the launch of a brand new documentation site designed to help new users dive right in.

Jekyll‘s come a long way since it started nearly five years ago, and this milestone marks the open source project’s first major release. Congratulations to all of the project’s contributors. 🎉

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Ben Balter

Ben Balter

@benbalter

Ben Balter is Chief of Staff for Security at GitHub, the world’s largest software development platform. Previously, as a Staff Technical Program manager for Enterprise and Compliance, Ben managed GitHub’s on-premises and SaaS enterprise offerings, and as the Senior Product Manager overseeing the platform’s Trust and Safety efforts, Ben shipped more than 500 features in support of community management, privacy, compliance, content moderation, product security, platform health, and open source workflows to ensure the GitHub community and platform remained safe, secure, and welcoming for all software developers. Before joining GitHub’s Product team, Ben served as GitHub’s Government Evangelist, leading the efforts to encourage more than 2,000 government organizations across 75 countries to adopt open source philosophies for code, data, and policy development.

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