.. title: Nikola v7.1.0 released!
.. slug: nikola-v710-released
.. date: 2014-09-06 09:06:51 UTC
.. tags: nikola, planet, python, programming, release
.. link: 
.. description: Nikola v7.1.0 is out!
.. type: text
.. author: Chris Warrick

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the release of
Nikola v7.1.0.

Nikola v7.1.0 is a bugfix/feature release.  It fixes quite a few bugs
of v7.0.1 discovered in the intervening 3 months (sorry it took so
long!), and also adds a few more features.

Get it!
=======

Nikola v7.1.0 is available for download at `GitHub`_ and `PyPI`_.

.. _GitHub: https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/releases/tag/v7.1.0
.. _PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Nikola

Changelog
=========

Features
--------

* Error out when reST gists cannot be downloaded (Issue #1402)
* Added a “Skip to content” link for accessibility (Issue #1345)
* Added ``minify_lines`` filter to strip leading whitespace and empty lines
* Added Google Closure Compiler JavaScript filter
* Print full tracebacks for conf.py errors
* Added ``USE_SLUGIFY`` (defaults to True).  If it’s False, Nikola allows and
  generates almost any Unicode character in page URLs (Issue #1321)
* sources for .html files are now copied as .src.html (Issue #1354)
* Copy files/\*.html verbatim (skip filters)
* Don’t generate STORY_INDEX if there is a conflicting story
* Added support for enclosures (via optional enclosure metadata tag) (Issue #1322)

Bugfixes
--------

* Fixed some margins for RTL text (Issue #1399)
* Fixed sitemapindex filtering of non-sitemap XMLs
* rebuild posts when metadata changes (Issue #1319)
* Allow + in slugs (Issue #1344)
* fix error message when tags that are too similar are found (Issues #1343, #1344)
* serve .svgz with content-encoding: gzip (Issue #1380)
* html5.js file for ancient IE now works outside of / (Issue #1372)
* PHP compiler now removes metadata comments the usual way (Issue #1374)
* PHP compiler’s permalinks were .html instead of .php (Issue #1373)
* Fixed importing WordPress blogs outside of / (Issue #1368)
* Fixed importing WordPress blogs without slugs (Issue #1364)
* don’t forget query parts of links (Issue #1369)
* Made posts that are directive-only work properly (Issue #1351)
* Made mathjax work with stories (Issue #1355)
* Fixed regeneration after change of ``NAVIGATION_LINKS``
* Made ``nikola bootswatch_theme`` compatible with Jinja themes
* Fixed submenus in Jinja themes (Issue #1327)
* Quietly ignore empty lines in bundles files
* Fixed wrong filter order in post_list plugin (Issue #1365)