Version 9.0

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

  • 0.141.0 Minimum required Hugo version

  • Breaking Change requiring action after upgrade

  • Change Change of behavior, may require action

  • New New behavior, often introducing new options

9.0.0 (2026-01-01)

Hugo

  • Hugo When the theme introduced compatibility with Hugo 0.146.7 it had to remove a performance optimization due to a limitation in Hugo. This was later fixed in Hugo 0.149.0.

    This release reintroduces the performance optimization and will cause your page build to fail with the above mentioned Hugo versions. You either need to upgrade or downgrade Hugo to an unaffected version.

Breaking

  • Breaking The children shortcode has a new layout resembling the taxonomy and term pages by setting type=group.

    Sadly, introducing usage of the shortcode in the taxonomy and term pages (see below) caused necessary breaking changes

    • the shortcode now requires enabling block attributes in your hugo.toml by setting markup.goldmark.parser.attribute.block=true
    • the call syntax for type=card now is {{< children >}} instead of {{% children %}} if goldmark.unsafe=false is configured in your hugo.toml (which is the default)

    In addition the shortcode learned some new parameter for displaying breadcrumbs and setting a heading depth.

Change

  • Change This release comes with a new way to configure your logo image and title in the menu sidebar.

    With the new system you can

    • rely on auto detection for an image
    • remove the image completely
    • override the image for each variant
    • set color, sizes and fonts for title and image
    • let the image and title lay out vertically or horizontally
    • override the complete layout with your own partial (that’s the old way and still works)

    Nevertheless, this required massive changes to the CSS and most likely your logo will require tweaking of the CSS styles after an update.

    The easiest way to fix this is to remove a overridden layouts/partials/logo.html template in your installation and rely on the new configuration.

  • Change Font Awesome was updated to version 7.1.0 which results in slightly different icons.

  • Change The search results of the search box are now colored in the same way as the search results on the dedicated search page using color styles of the content area.

  • Change The expand shortcode has changed its default text of Expand me... to Details to be in sync with Hugo’s built-in details shortcode and the details HTML element.

New

  • New The taxonomy and term pages are now internally using the children shortcode. This makes it possible for you to set parameter of the children shortcode in your taxonomy/term pages front matter to change the layout.

    By that you can - for example - display the sub pages in a card layout. See the categories taxonomy for an example.

  • New The themes dark-mode support for the openapi shortcode was changed to the built-in implementation of the used Swagger library.