v1.3.0

• New or improved features:
  • Add tagging support for post pages. #29
  • Add strict mode (-s). #32 (#35)
  • Add -d flag to to generate more verbose (debugging) output while tacking. #31
  • Add support for more template filename extensions: .mu and .stache in addition to .mustache. #28
  • Improve code documentation, README, and contribution guidelines. #33, #34, #38, #39
• Bugfixes:
  • Ensure no two pages on the same level can have the same slug. #36 (#37)
  • Update mustache template library to get rid of vulnerable CI dependencies it had. ca47021

v1.2.0

• New or improved features:
  • Page variables and the template to use can now be specified using YAML frontmatter inside Markdown files. #14
  • Improve manpage a bit.
• Bugfixes:
  • Fix reading site metadata from files with uppercase file ending. #25.

v1.1.0

• New or improved features:

  • Allow the root index page to be defined with metadata and markup directly in content/. #19
  • Add support for empty pages (no metadata or markup defined) if they have non-empty children. #20
  • Add support for children to iterate non-floating child pages. #16
  • Add support for posts to iterate all child pages marked with a date. #18
  • Add support for menu sections to iterate all siblings and the current page (only for non-floating pages). #17
  • For each entry of page collections (children, menu, navigation, posts, siblings) add first and last boolean values that can be used to construct better separators. #21
  • Add a man-page. #9

• Bugfixes:

  • Fix not being able to read .md or .yaml files instead of .mkd and .yml. #22
  • Fix title casing. #3
  • Fix iterating siblings in correct order. #4
  • Fix crash for non-existent asset directories. #5
  • Fix rendering section context. #8
  • Fix rendering non-false value sections. #23

• Misc changes:

  • Introduce a set of integration tests: This are small, selfcontained websites that are automatically re-generated and the result is matched against the expected output. #13
  • Additionally, introduce a tiny set of directory layout tests. #13

v1.0.0

• BREAKING: Support for CSS filters (ie. LESS support) was dropped!
• Added support for specifiying a site directory for the tack and serve commands.
• tack serve will now detect removed or newly added files.
• Added timestamps to logging output of tack serve
• Fixed crash when not called from within a site directory.
• Startup time is >10x faster. Calling tack tack for a simple website is down from ~600ms to ~50ms on my very old Mac.
• The software is rewritten in Go (compared to C#) for the following reasons:
  • Support for more platforms (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows in addition to Linux and macOS)
  • Maintenance & setting up build environment is way easier with Go compared to .NET (even if this improved in the past 10 years)
  • Dependency tracking is easier and more reliable in Go
  • Runtime requirements are lower (memory and disk space footprint) for Go version
  • Go version is faster (esp. startup time)

v0.5.1

(Release date: 2019-07-31)

Adds support for building on .NET Core (instead of Mono).

This is the first released version to include binaries (Mac/Linux 64bit only).

v0.5.0

(Release date: 2012-08-25)

Tack is a command-line application that compiles input files in various markup languages into a static website. It is loosely modeled after Bonsai & Stacey and hopefully is a lot less complex to setup and operate than nanoc. The software is written in C# and a proud Mono application that runs on Mac OS X and probably any other POSIX system.

v0.5.1-alpha-1

Just a quick build to see if/how that a decade old code works with .NET Core. Don't use.