Hugo 0.77.0: Hugo Modules Improvements and More

Hugo 0.77.0 is a small, but useful release. Some notable updates are:

• time.AsTime accepts an optional location as second parameter, allowing timezone aware printing of dates.
• You can now build with go install -tags nodeploy if you don’t need the hugo deploy feature.
• Remote getJSON errors can now be ignored by adding ignoreErrors = ["error-remote-getjson"] to your site config.

There are also several useful Hugo Modules enhancements:

• We have added Replacements to the Module Configuration. This should enable a much simpler developer workflow, simpler to set up preview sites for your remote theme etc, as you now can do env HUGO_MODULE_REPLACEMENTS="github.com/bep/myprettytheme -> ../.." hugo and similar.
• The module Path for local modules can now be absolute for imports defined in the project.

This release represents 38 contributions by 11 contributors to the main Hugo code base. @bep leads the Hugo development with a significant amount of contributions, but also a big shoutout to @moorereason, and @anthonyfok for their ongoing contributions.

And a big thanks to @digitalcraftsman for his relentless work on keeping the themes site in pristine condition and to @davidsneighbour, @coliff and @kaushalmodi for all the great work on the documentation site.

Many have also been busy writing and fixing the documentation in hugoDocs, which has received 3 contributions by 3 contributors.

Hugo now has:

• 47530+ stars
• 438+ contributors
• 361+ themes

Enhancements

Templates

• Refactor time.AsTime location implementation 807db97a @moorereason
• Update Hugo time to support optional [LOCATION] parameter 26eeb291 @virgofx
• Improve layout path construction acfa1538 @moorereason
• Test all lookup permutations in TestLayout 78b26d53 @moorereason
• Reformat TestLayout table 28179bd5 @moorereason

Other

• Allow absolute paths for project imports beabc8d9 @bep #7910
• Regen docs helper 332b65e4 @bep
• Add module.replacements 173187e2 @bep #7904#7908
• Do not call CDN service invalidation when executing a dry run deployment 56a34350 @zemanel #7884
• Pass editor arguments from newContentEditor correctly d48a98c4 @bhavin192
• Bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 0.0.7 to 1.1.1 3261678f @anthonyfok
• Allow optional “nodeploy” tag to exclude deploy command from bin f465c5c3 @emhagman #7826
• Allow cascade _target to work with non toml fm 3400aff2 @gwatts #7874
• Allow getJSON errors to be ignored fdfa4a5f @bep #7866
• bump github.com/evanw/esbuild from 0.7.15 to 0.7.18 8cbe2bbf @dependabot[bot]
• Revert “Add benchmark for building docs site” b886fa46 @bep
• Avoid making unnecessary allocation 14bce18a @moorereason
• Add benchmark for building docs site 837e084b @moorereason
• Always show page number when 5 pages or less 08e4f9ff @moorereason #7523
• bump github.com/frankban/quicktest from 1.11.0 to 1.11.1 f033d9f0 @dependabot[bot]
• bump github.com/evanw/esbuild from 0.7.14 to 0.7.15 59fe2794 @dependabot[bot]
• Merge branch ‘release-0.76.5’ 62119022 @bep
• Render aliases even if render=link 79a022a1 @bep #7832
• Render aliases even if render=link ead5799f @bep #7832
• bump github.com/spf13/afero from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 d57be113 @dependabot[bot]
• bump github.com/evanw/esbuild from 0.7.9 to 0.7.14 d0705966 @dependabot[bot]
• Update to Go 1.15 and Alpine 3.12 f5ea359d @ducksecops
• Install postcss v8 explicitly as it is now a peer dependency e9a7ebaf @anthonyfok
• Merge branch ‘release-0.76.3’ 49972d07 @bep
• Add merge helper c98132e3 @bep
• Add workaround for known language, but missing plural rule error 33e9d79b @bep #7798
• Update to github.com/tdewolff/minify v2.9.4" 6dd60fca @bep #7792

Fixes

Templates

• Fix reflection bug in merge 6d95dc9d @moorereason #7899

Other

• Fix setting HUGO_MODULE_PROXY etc. via env vars 8a1c637c @bep #7903
• Fix for language code case issue with pt-br etc. 50682043 @bep #7804
• Fix for bare TOML keys fc6abc39 @bep
• Fix i18n .Count regression f9e798e8 @bep #7787
• Fix typo in 0.76.0 release note ee56efff @digitalcraftsman