Hi everyone,

I've just uploaded soupault 4.0.0-beta1 to

Hi everyone,

I've just uploaded soupault 4.0.0-beta1 to 
https://github.com/PataphysicalSociety/soupault/releases/tag/4.0.0-beta1 
and to https://files.baturin.org/software/soupault/4.0.0-beta1/.

There are multiple new features:

     Index processors can be written in Lua, which enables not only 
greater control but also allows generating taxonomy pages and paginated 
indices directly from soupault.
     Ability to take over page processing stages and augment them with 
Lua hooks.
     An option to make index data accessible from content pages.
     Ability to mark certain index fields as required.
     Multiple new Lua plugin functions, including Unicode-aware string 
length and truncation, new HTML helpers, and more.

Of course, all these features need documentation and usage examples, and 
I'll get to it. The GitHub release page has a "brief" (still large) 
changelog with a few examples.

The breaking change that triggered a major version bump to 4.0.0 is the 
removal of the default value for `index_item_template`.
The default used to reference the `{{title}}` variable long after the 
content model was dehardcoded in 2.0.0,
but somehow that fact escaped me at the time.
Since everyone I know specifies index_template or index_item_template 
explicitly, I doubt this change will actually affect anyone.

The main goal of this beta is to make sure that old functionality is 
still working for everyone, save for a minor breaking change.

When I'm sure that it's stable enough, I'll put together a proper 
release post, update the reference manual, and make it official.

I'm also going to give the sample blog repo a refresh and extract the 
setup of the OCaml book as another "blueprint" to make it easier to 
build upon. Stay tuned!



There are multiple new features:

  * Index processors can be written in Lua, which enables not only
    greater control but also allows generating taxonomy pages and
    paginated indices directly from soupault.
  * Ability to take over page processing stages and augment them with
    Lua hooks.
  * An option to make index data accessible from content pages.
  * Ability to mark certain index fields as required.
  * Multiple new Lua plugin functions, including Unicode-aware string
    length and truncation, new HTML helpers, and more.

Of course, all these features need documentation and usage examples, and 
I'll get to it. The GitHub release page has a "brief" (still large) 
changelog with a few examples.

The breaking change that triggered a major version bump to 4.0.0 is the 
removal of the default value for `index_item_template`.
The default used to reference the `{{title}}` variable long after the 
content model was dehardcoded in 2.0.0,
but somehow that fact escaped me at the time.
Since everyone I know specifies index_template or index_item_template 
explicitly, I doubt this change will actually affect anyone.

The main goal of this beta is to make sure that old functionality is 
still working for everyone, save for a minor breaking change.

When I'm sure that it's stable enough, I'll put together a proper 
release post, update the reference manual, and make it official.

I'm also going to give the sample blog repo a refresh and extract the 
setup of the OCaml book as another "blueprint" to make it easier to 
build upon. Stay tuned!