Version 8.1

See the changelog of this version for a detailed list of changes.

  • 0.126.3 Minimum required Hugo version

  • Breaking Change requiring action after upgrade

  • Change Change of behavior, may require action

  • New New behavior, often introducing new options

8.1.0 (2025-10-05)

Change

  • Change The children shortcode has learned to show its children in a nice card layout.

    This required to deprecate the containerstyle and style parameter in favor of the new type parameter. Your build will succeed as before but will give you detailed warnings how to migrate your old settings to the new for each occurance.

    If you haven’t set containerstyle or style no changes are necessary. If you used

    • containerstyle=ul or style=li now use type=tree
    • style=h* now use type=list
    • any other containerstyle or style now use type=flat

    If you want to use the new card layout, use type=card.

  • Change The externalLinkTarget config option has changed its default from _blank to _self causing external links by default to be opened in the same tab.

    If you want to get back to the previous behavior of opening external links in a new tab, set externalLinkTarget='_blank' in your hugo.toml.

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