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8 :Maintainer: docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net
11 :Web site: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
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15 This document summarizes the major changes in recent and upcoming releases.
16 For a more detailed list of changes, please see the `Docutils History`_.
18 .. _Docutils History: HISTORY.html
25 * Remove the `handle_io_errors` option from io.FileInput/Output.
26 Used by Sphinx up to version 1.3.1, fixed in 1.3.2 (Nov 29, 2015).
28 * Remove `utils.unique_combinations` (obsoleted by `itertools.combinations`).
30 * The default HTML writer "html" with frontend ``rst2html.py`` may change
31 from "html4css1" to "html5".
33 Use `get_writer_by_name('html')` or the rst2html.py_ front end, if you
34 want the output to be up-to-date automatically.
36 Use a specific writer name or front end, if you depend on stability of the
37 generated HTML code, e.g. because you use a custom style sheet or
38 post-processing that may break otherwise.
40 .. _rst2html.py: docs/user/tools.html#rst2html-py
48 Docutils 0.14.x is the last version supporting Python 2.4, 2.5,
51 Docutils 0.15.x is compatible with Python versions 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3 to 3.5
52 (cf. `Python 3 compatibility`_).
56 - Allow embedded colons in field list field names (before, tokens like
57 ``:this:example:`` were considered ordinary text).
59 - Fixed a bug with the "trim" options of the "unicode" directive.
61 - Allow escaping of author-separators in `bibliographic fields`__.
63 __ docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#bibliographic-fields
66 Release 0.14 (2017-08-03)
67 =========================
69 * docutils/docs/ref/docutils.dtd:
71 - Enable validation of Docutils XML documents against the DTD:
73 * docutils/parsers/rst/:
75 - Added functionality: escaped whitespace in URI contexts.
76 - Consistent handling of all whitespace characters in inline markup
77 recognition. (May break documents that relied on some whitespace
78 characters (NBSP, ...) *not* to be recognized as whitespace.)
80 * docutils/utils/smartquotes.py:
82 - Update quote definitions for et, fi, fr, ro, sv, tr, uk.
83 - Add quote definitions for hr, hsb, hu, lv, sh, sl, sr.
84 - Differentiate apostrophe from closing single quote (if possible).
85 - Add command line interface for stand-alone use (requires 2.7).
87 * docutils/writers/_html_base:
89 - Provide default title in metadata.
90 - The MathJax CDN shut down on April 30, 2017. For security reasons, we
91 don't use a third party public installation as default but warn
92 if `math-output` is set to MathJax without specifying a URL.
93 See math-output_ for details.
95 * docutils/writers/html4css1:
97 - Respect automatic table column sizing.
99 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
101 - Handle class arguments for block-level elements by wrapping them
102 in a "DUclass" environment. This replaces the special handling for
103 "epigraph" and "topic" elements.
105 * docutils/writers/odf_odt:
107 - Language option sets ODF document's default language
108 - Image width, scale, ... set image size in generated ODF.
112 - New front-end ``rst2html4.py``.
115 Release 0.13.1 (2016-12-09)
116 ===========================
118 * docutils/writers/html5_polyglot
120 - New HTML writer generating `HTML 5`_.
122 .. _HTML 5: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
126 - New front-end ``rst2html5.py``.
128 * languages: persian/farsi (fa) and latvian (la) mappings.
130 * change default base url for :rfc: to http://tools.ietf.org/html/
132 * tables accept widths, a list and align
134 * latex2e: Fix admonition width, remove deprecated options,
135 better tablewidth auto, ...
137 * rst.el: The problem with ``electric-indent-mode`` has been fixed.
140 Release 0.12 (2014-07-06)
141 =========================
143 Small changes only, release current state
146 Release 0.11 (2013-07-22)
147 =========================
151 - Apply [ 2714873 ] Fix for the overwritting of document attributes.
152 - Support embedded aliases within hyperlink references.
153 - Fix [ 228 ] try local import of docutils components (reader, writer, parser,
154 language module) before global search.
156 * docutils/parsers/rst/directives/tables.py
158 - Fix [ 210 ] Python 3.3 checks CVS syntax only if "strict" is True.
160 * docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py
161 - Fix [ 3600051 ] for tables in a list, table cells are not compacted.
162 - New setting `stylesheet_dirs` (see above).
164 Now, it is easy to add a custom stylesheet to Docutils' default
165 stylesheet with, e.g., ``--stylesheet_path='html4css1.css, mystyle.css'``
167 Changed behaviour of the default settings:
168 if there is a file ``html4css1.css`` in the working directory of the
169 process at launch, it is used instead of the one provided by Docutils
170 in the writer source directory.
172 - New default for math-output_: ``HTML math.css``.
173 - Avoid repeated class declarations in html4css1 writer
174 (modified version of patch [ 104 ]).
176 .. _math-output: docs/user/config.html#math-output
178 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
180 - Drop the simple algorithm replacing straight double quotes with
181 English typographic ones.
182 Activate the SmartQuotes_ transform if you want this feature.
183 - New setting `stylesheet_dirs`: Comma-separated list of directories
184 where stylesheets are found. Used by `stylesheet_path` when expanding
185 relative path arguments.
187 .. _SmartQuotes: docs/user/config.html#smart-quotes
189 * docutils/writers/manpage.py
191 - Fix [3607063] handle lines starting with a period.
192 - Fix option separating comma was bold (thanks to Bill Morris).
194 Release 0.10 (2012-12-16)
195 =========================
199 Docutils 0.9.x is the last version supporting Python 2.3.
201 Docutils 0.10 is compatible with Python versions from 2.4 to 3.2
202 (cf. `Python 3 compatibility`_).
206 - SmartQuotes transform for typographic quotes and dashes.
208 - ``docutils/math``, ``docutils/error_reporting.py``, and
209 ``docutils/urischemes.py`` moved to the utils package.
210 Code importing these modules needs to adapt, e.g.::
213 import docutils.math as math
215 import docutils.utils.math as math
217 - enhanced math and error handling.
221 - FileInput/FileOutput: no system-exit on IOError.
222 The `handle_io_errors` option is ignored.
224 .. _Python 3 compatibility: README.html#python-3-compatibility
226 * docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py
228 - Use ``<code>`` tag for inline "code",
229 do not drop nested inline nodes (syntax highlight tokens).
230 - Customizable MathJax URL (based on patch by Dmitry Shachnev).
231 - No line break after opening inline math tag.
233 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py, docutils/writers/xetex/__init__.py
235 - Fix section numbering by LaTeX.
237 * docutils/writers/s5_html/__init__.py
239 - Fix [ 3556388 ] Mathjax does not work with rst2s5.
242 Release 0.9.1 (2012-06-17)
243 ==========================
247 Several fixes for Python 3 usage.
251 - Fix [ 3527842 ]. Under Python 3, converted tests and tools were
252 installed in the PYTHONPATH. Converted tests are now
253 stored in ``docutils/test3/``, tools no longer need conversion.
255 If you installed one of Docutils versions 0.7 ... 0.9 with
256 ``setup.py install`` under Python 3, remove the spurious
257 ``test/`` and ``tools/`` directories in the site library root.
260 Release 0.9 (2012-05-02)
261 =========================
265 - reStructuredText "code" role and directive with syntax highlighting
267 - "code" option of the "include" directive.
269 .. _Pygments: http://pygments.org/
271 - Fix [ 3402314 ] allow non-ASCII whitespace, punctuation
272 characters and "international" quotes around inline markup.
274 - Fix handling of missing stylesheets.
278 - Fix [ 2971827 ] and [ 3442827 ]
279 extras/roman.py moved to docutils/utils/roman.py
281 * docutils/utils.py -> docutils/utils/__init__.py
283 - docutils.utils is now a package (providing a place for sub-modules)
285 * docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py
287 - change default for `math-output` setting to MathJax
289 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
291 - Support the `abbreviation` and `acronym` standard roles.
292 - Record only files required to generate the LaTeX source as dependencies.
293 - Use ``\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}`` instead of ``*``-versions
294 when suppressing LaTeX section numbering.
297 Release 0.8.1 (2011-08-30)
298 ==========================
302 - Fix [ 3364658 ] (Change last file with Apache license to BSD-2-Clause)
303 and [ 3395920 ] (correct copyright info for rst.el).
305 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
307 - Clean up Babel language setting. Restores Sphinx compatibility.
310 Release 0.8 (2011-07-07)
311 ========================
315 - Some additions to the Docutils core are released under the 2-Clause BSD
320 - Handle language codes according to `BCP 47`_.
321 - If the specified langauage is not supported by Docutils,
322 warn and fall back to English.
323 - Math support: reStructuredText "math" role and directive,
324 ``math`` and ``math_block`` doctree elements.
325 - Orphaned "python" reader and "newlatex2e" writer moved to the sandbox.
327 .. _BCP 47: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt
331 - most directives now support a "name" option that attaches a
332 reference name. So you can write ::
334 .. figure:: image.png
337 as a short form of ::
341 .. figure:: image.png
343 Internationalization:
345 * Added lithuanian mappings.
351 - New setting "math-output" with support for HTML, MathML, and LaTeX.
355 - Convert image URI to a local file path.
356 - Apply [ 3148141 ] fix multicolumn support when a colspanning cell
357 has more than one paragraph (Wolfgang Scherer).
361 - New writer generating LaTeX code for compiling with ``xelatex``.
363 XeTeX uses unicode and modern font technologies.
365 * and fixes and enhancements here and there.
368 Release 0.7 (2010-07-07)
369 ========================
375 - Support SVG and SWF images (thanks to Stefan Rank).
376 - Generate valid XHTML for centered images with targets.
377 Use CSS classes instead of "align" tags for image alignment.
381 - Use the ``\url`` command for URLs (breaks long URLs instead of writing
383 - Preserve runs of spaces in 'inline literals'.
384 - Deprecate ``figure_footnotes`` setting.
385 - Rename ``use_latex_footnotes`` setting to `docutils_footnotes`__.
386 - New ``latex_preamble`` setting.
387 - Use PDF standard fonts (Times/Helvetica/Courier) as default.
388 - `hyperref` package called with ``unicode`` option (see the
389 `hyperref config tips`__ for how to override).
390 - Drop the special `output_encoding`__ default ("latin-1").
391 The Docutils wide default (usually "UTF-8") is used instead.
393 __ docs/user/config.html#docutils-footnotes
394 __ docs/user/latex.html#hyperlinks
395 __ docs/user/latex.html#output-encoding
399 - Titles level 1, that is ``.SH``, always uppercase.
400 - Apply patch from mg: literal text should be bold in man-pages.
404 * io.FileInput opens files as text files with universal newline support
405 (mode "rU", configurable with the new optional argument "mode").
409 - Python 3 support: copy test/ and tools/ to the build-dir
410 and convert Python sources with 2to3.
413 Release 0.6 (2009-10-11)
414 ========================
418 Docutils 0.5 is the last version supporting Python 2.2.
420 Docutils 0.6 is compatible with Python versions from 2.3 up to 2.6
421 and convertible to 3.1 code.
425 The "newlatex" writer is orphaned.
427 The recommended way to generate PDF output is to use either the
428 LaTeX2e writer or one of the alternatives listed at
429 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/links.html#pdf.
433 - Allow length units for all length specifications.
434 - Allow percent sign in "scale" argument of "figure" and "image" directives.
435 - Bugfix: The "figalign" argument of a figure now works as intended
436 (aligning the figure not its contents).
437 - Align images with class "align-[right|center|left]"
438 (allows setting the alignment of an image in a figure).
439 - Hard tabs in literal inclusions are replaced by spaces. This is
440 configurable via the new "tab-width" option of the "include" directive
441 (a negative tab-width prevents tab expansion).
445 - ``--stylesheet`` and ``--stylesheet-path`` options now support a comma
446 separated list of stylesheets.
451 - font-encoding: "T1" (formerly implicitely set by 'ae').
452 - use-latex-toc: true (ToC with page numbers).
453 - use-latex-footnotes: true (no mixup with figures).
454 - Float placement defaults to "here definitely" (configurable).
455 - Align of image in a figure defaults to 'center'.
456 - Use class defaults for page margins ('typearea' now optional).
457 - Support LaTeX packages as ``--stylesheet`` arguments.
458 - Use ``bp`` for lengths without unit or unit ``pt``,
459 do not convert ``px`` to ``pt``.
460 - Do not use 'ae' and 'aeguill' packages if font-encoding is set to ''.
461 - Set sub- and superscript role argument as text not math.
462 - Support custom roles based on standard roles.
463 - Load packages and define macros only if required in the document.
464 - All Docutils specific LaTeX macros are prefixed with ``DU``.
465 - Better conformance to Docutils specifications with "use_latex_toc".
466 - If 'sectnum_xform' is False, the 'sectnum' directive triggers
467 section numbering by LaTeX.
468 - Use default font in admonitions and sidebar.
469 - Typeset generic topic as "quote with title".
470 - Use template (file and configuration option).
471 - Render doctest blocks as literal blocks (indented).
475 - moved from sandbox to Doctutils core.
479 - moved from sandbox to Doctutils core.
482 Release 0.5 (2008-06-25)
483 ========================
489 - Dropped all ``name`` attributes of ``a`` elements (``id`` is
490 universally supported now).
494 - Better bibTeX citation support.
495 - Add ``--literal-block-env``
499 - Changed to support new python.org website structure and
504 * Changed the directive API to a new object-oriented system.
505 (Compatibility for the old, functional-style directive interface is
506 retained.) See the updated `Creating reStructuredText Directives`__
509 __ docs/howto/rst-directives.html
511 * Allow ``+`` and ``:`` in reference names requested for citations.
515 * Added `Deploying Docutils Securely`__
517 __ docs/howto/security.txt
519 Internationalization:
521 * Added hebrew mappings.
525 * Configuration files are now assumed and required to be
528 * Added docutils/writers/html4css1/template.txt.
530 * Enhance emacs support.
533 Release 0.4 (2006-01-09)
534 ========================
538 Docutils 0.4.x is the last version that will support Python 2.1.
539 Docutils 0.5 will *not* be compatible with Python 2.1; Python 2.2
540 or later will be required.
542 Docutils 0.4.x is the last version that will make compromises in
543 its HTML output for Netscape Navigator 4. Docutils 0.5 will
544 require more up-to-date browsers (the exact definition is to be
549 * Added an `S5/HTML writer`__ and the rst2s5.py__ front end:
550 multi-platform, multi-browser HTML slide shows.
552 __ docs/user/slide-shows.html
553 __ docs/user/tools.html#rst2s5-py
555 * The newlatex2e writer is nearing completion.
557 * Added a DocTree reader, ``publish_doctree`` and
558 ``publish_from_doctree`` convenience functions, for document tree
559 extraction and reprocessing.
563 * Added directives: "container__" (generic block-level container),
564 "default-role__" (role used for \`backtick\` syntax), "title__"
565 (document title metadata), and "date__" (generate the current local
566 date, for substitution definitions).
568 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#container
569 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#default-role
570 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#title
571 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#date
573 * Length units are now supported for image__ sizes.
575 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#image
577 * Added `standard definition files`__ for special characters etc.
579 __ docs/ref/rst/definitions.html
581 Internationalization:
583 * Added Japanese and Simplified Chinese language mappings, and support
584 for double-width CJK-characters in tables and section titles.
588 * Added a `guide for distributors`__ (package maintainers) and a
589 `guide for developers`__.
591 __ docs/dev/distributing.html
592 __ docs/dev/hacking.html
596 * Added significant `Emacs support for reST`__.
598 __ docs/user/emacs.html
600 * Added a `--strip-comments`__ option.
602 __ docs/user/config.html#strip-comments
604 * `--embed-stylesheet`__ is now the default for the HTML writer
605 (rather than --link-stylesheet).
607 __ docs/user/config.html#embed-stylesheet
610 Release 0.3.9 (2005-05-26)
611 ==========================
613 * Added "file_insertion_enabled__" and "raw_enabled__" settings.
615 __ docs/user/config.html#file-insertion-enabled
616 __ docs/user/config.html#raw-enabled
618 * Added `auto-enumerated lists`__.
620 __ docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#enumerated-lists
622 * Added `"header" and "footer"`__ directives.
624 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#document-header-footer
626 * Added "list-table__" directive.
628 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#list-table
630 * Added support for `section subtitles`__.
632 __ docs/user/config.html#sectsubtitle-xform
634 * Added "field_name_limit__" and "option_limit__" settings to HTML writer.
636 __ docs/user/config.html#field-name-limit
637 __ docs/user/config.html#option-limit
639 * Added "cloak_email_addresses__" setting to HTML writer.
641 __ docs/user/config.html#cloak-email-addresses
643 * UTF-8 BOMs are now removed from the input stream.
646 Release 0.3.7 (2004-12-24)
647 ==========================
649 * A special "`line block`__" syntax has been added. (Also see the
650 `quick reference`__.)
652 __ docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#line-blocks
653 __ docs/user/rst/quickref.html#line-blocks
655 * Empty sections are now allowed.
657 * A "raw__" role has been added.
659 __ docs/ref/rst/roles.html#raw
661 * The LaTeX writer now escapes consecutive dashes (like "--" or "---")
662 so that they are no longer transformed by LaTeX to en or em dashes.
663 (Please see the FAQ__ for how to represent such dashes.)
665 __ FAQ.html#how-can-i-represent-esoteric-characters-e-g-character-entities-in-a-document
667 * A `dependency recorder`__ has been added.
669 __ docs/user/config.html#record-dependencies
671 * A directive has been added for `compound paragraphs`__.
673 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#compound-paragraph
676 Release 0.3.5 (2004-07-29)
677 ==========================
679 * Improved, extended and reorganized the documentation__.
683 * Added "csv-table__" directive.
685 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#csv-table