Today’s release of v.0.103.0 of the Hugo static site generator (SSG) came with a couple of wrinkles that may merit your attention.
What’s in a name?
As a result of this GitHub issue, Hugo now uses a different naming scheme for its archives — but, as the release notes explain:
To avoid breakage when running on Netlify and similar, we create aliases for the most commonly downloaded [Linux archives] on the old format and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future.
So, if you build your Hugo site via CI/CD that downloads and installs a Linux binary of Hugo — as is true for the script that builds this site when it’s Hugo-based — you might want to consider changing your scripts to reflect this new reality. Yes, those “foreseeable future” aliases will make sure existing build scripts don’t break, but it also never hurts to stay current.
One more thing about this: the name changes also apply to non-Linux binaries you might normally install locally, so this could affect your local development process regardless of whether you use CI/CD for site deployment.
404s and dev mode
Another change introduced in Hugo 0.103.0 is what the release notes called “proper 404 support” during the use of the Hugo dev server.
Previously, attempts to go to a non-existent page within a Hugo repo would result in a “404 page not found” error, rather than displaying the site’s expected 404 error page. Thus, if you wanted to see your 404 page, such as while editing its content or appearance, you had to go to its actual URL. This was as compared to just entering a bogus local link, which is the “see-your-404” SOP for nearly all other popular SSGs. Now, with 0.103.0 and up, Hugo catches up with the competitors on this score after what, as the Hugo Twitter account said, had been “some years.”
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