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Docs: add a migration guide (#1059)
The migration guide is intended to help those using Just the Docs (as a theme or a remote theme) switch from v0.3.3 to v0.4.0. Co-authored-by: Matt Wang <matt@matthewwang.me>
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title: Migration and Upgrading
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---
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# Migrating and Upgrading
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Summary
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: A site that uses `just-the-docs` (as a theme or as a remote them) automatically
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switches to a new release, unless it is pinned to a previous version.
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This migration guide draws attention to:
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- changes that might break your site,
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- features added in the latest release, and
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- features that have become deprecated (and are likely to be removed in a future release).
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This document contains instructions on how to migrate and upgrade Just the Docs sites from every minor or major version bump, starting from `v0.3.3` to `v0.4.0`.
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<details open markdown="block">
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<summary>
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Table of contents
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</summary>
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{: .text-delta }
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- TOC
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{:toc}
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</details>
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{::options toc_levels="2..4" /}
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{: .warning }
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> If your configuration states `remote_theme: just-the-docs/just-the-docs`, your
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> website is built using the current `main` branch of the theme, which may include
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> changes made after the latest release; see the [CHANGELOG].
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>
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> If your configuration states `theme: just the docs` and your `Gemfile` specifies
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> `gem "just-the-docs"`, your website is always built using the latest release.
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{: .note }
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> If you have cloned/forked and customised the theme repo,
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> and pull the changes of a new release to your clone,
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> you may need to resolve merge conflicts.
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[CHANGELOG]: {{ site.baseurl }}{% link CHANGELOG.md %}
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## v0.3.3 … v0.4.x
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### REPOSITORY CHANGES
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#### Just the Docs
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The theme repo is now at <https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs>.
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The name of its default branch is now `main`.
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The theme docs website is now published at <https://just-the-docs.github.io/just-the-docs>.
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GitHub provides access to previous versions of the theme repo.
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You can browse [previous versions of the theme docs website] on the [Internet Archive].
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[previous versions of the theme docs website]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/https://just-the-docs.github.io/just-the-docs
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[Internet Archive]: https://web.archive.org/
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The [README] page on the theme repo repeats much of the information from the [home page],
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formatted for browsing on GitHub.
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It also explains how to install the theme as a Ruby Gem, without creating a new site.
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[README]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/blob/main/README.md
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[home page]: https://just-the-docs.github.io/just-the-docs
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#### Deploy previews
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When a PR builds successfully, Netlify provides a preview of how the theme docs website will look if the PR is merged.
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You can find links to the preview near the bottom of the Conversation tab of the PR.
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#### Just the Docs Template
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The template at <https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs-template>
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creates a repo with the minimal source files for a Just the Docs website.
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After configuring the relevant parameters, you can build and serve the website
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both locally and on GitHub Pages – using either Jekyll 3 or Jekyll 4!
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#### Just the Docs Tests
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The tests website at <https://just-the-docs.github.io/just-the-docs-tests>
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consists mainly of regression tests for bug fixes and new features.
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The test source files at <https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs-tests>
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illustrate the use of many Markdown and Jekyll features,
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including some that are not included in the theme docs.
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For example, see how to add support for rendering TeX/LaTeX [math formulas] with KaTeX and MathJax.
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[math formulas]: https://just-the-docs.github.io/just-the-docs-tests/components/math/index/
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### POTENTIALLY-BREAKING CHANGES in v0.4.0
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If switching to a new release of the theme breaks your website,
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check that you don't have any files in the `_includes`, `_layouts`, and `_sass`
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directories with the same names as files provided by the theme.
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If your repo has a customised copy of `_layouts/default.html` from a previous release,
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try removing it, or replace it by a fresh copy of the theme file.
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{: .warning }
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The following changes made in v0.4.0 *might* break or adversely affect your website
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when you next rebuild it, unless you have pinned it!
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#### New includes and SCSS
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Version 0.4.0 introduces many new `_includes` files. If you already have an existing include with the same name as a new addition, you will need to migrate or update that include. The new files are (relative to the `_includes` folder):
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- `mermaid_config.js`
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- `nav_footer_custom`
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- `search_placeholder_custom`
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- `toc_heading_custom`
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- the entire `components/` folder:
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- `aux_nav`, `breadcrumbs`, `children_nav`, `footer`, `header`, `mermaid`, `search_footer`, `search_header`, `sidebar`
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- the entire `icons/` folder
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- `code_copy`, `document`, `expand`, `external_link`, `icons`, `link`, `menu`, `search`
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- the entire `lunr/` folder
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- `custom-data.json`, `custom-index.js`
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We have removed some code in `_sass/vendor` and added a new file at `_sass/custom/setup.scss`.
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#### favicons
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The file `_includes/favicon.html` is now ignored by the theme.
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If you're using it, your website's favicon is no longer displayed by browsers.
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To fix: Move the content of `_includes/favicon.html` to `_includes/head_custom.html`.
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#### Custom callout colors
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The file `_sass/custom/custom.scss` is now imported last: _after_ the configuration of callouts.
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If you've defined custom color variables for callouts in `_sass/custom/custom.scss`
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(and used them when configuring your callouts in `_config.yml`)
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you will not be able to rebuild your website.
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To fix: Move custom color variables for callouts in `_sass/custom/custom.scss` to `_sass/custom/variables.scss`.
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#### Pages and collections
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Links to ordinary pages now appear in the navigation on sites that use collections.
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You might want the navigation of your site to consist entirely of collections.
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To fix: Add the front matter `nav_exclude: true` to pages that the navigation should not display.
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#### Relative URLs
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All generated URLs are now relative.
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This is a bug fix, and unlikely to break any site.
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Relative links to pages within a website support deployment to different servers.
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#### Navigation order
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The order in which the navigation panel lists pages has been simplified.
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All pages with `nav_order` values now come before all pages that are ordered by `title`.
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If your website has a group of *sibling* pages where some siblings have `nav_order`
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string values, and others are ordered by numerical `title` values,
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the former now come before the latter.
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To fix: Add numerical `nav_order` values to the pages with numerical `title` values.
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### DEPRECATIONS
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The following features are deprecated, and to be removed in a future release.
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#### Jekyll 3
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You can still use Jekyll 3 (3.8.5 or later) to build websites using v0.4.0 of the theme.
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However, future releases of the theme may require the use of Jekyll 4.
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You can already use Jekyll 4 to build your website *locally*.
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It should look exactly the same as when built with Jekyll 3.[^Jekyll4]
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[^Jekyll4]:
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Jekyll 4 depends on more recent versions of other gems than Jekyll 3,
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and the differences between those versions may affect the files of your built site.
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To use Jekyll 4 when building your website *on GitHub Pages*, you need to run GitHub Actions.
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The simplest way of setting that up in a new repo is to create the repo using the Just the Docs template.
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To start running Jekyll 4 to build an existing repo on GitHub Pages,
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you can create a new repo with the template, then copy its `.github/workflows` directory,
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and update your repo settings to use Actions.
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#### Footer content configuration
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Currently, if your configuration sets `footer_content` to some text,
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the theme displays that text at the bottom of the main section of each page.
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The file `_includes/footer_custom.html` provides a more general way of customizing
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not only the text but also the markup for the page footer area.
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You can replicate the current display of `TEXT` in the footer using the following markup:
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```html
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<p class="text-small text-grey-dk-100 mb-0">TEXT</p>
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```
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### THEME WEBSITE CHANGES
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The website now uses *callouts*[^callouts] to draw attention to important information.
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[^callouts]:
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The theme website configuration defines the callout titles and colors used there.
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Websites that use the theme have to configure their own callout titles and colors.
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The theme uses [semantic versioning].
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A normal version number takes the form X.Y.Z,
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where X is the major version, Y is the minor version, and Z is the patch version.
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The theme uses version X.Y.Z.rcN for pre-release N of version X.Y.Z.
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When referring to version numbers on GitHub, we usually prefix them by 'v'.
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[semantic versioning]: https://semver.org
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Major version zero (0.Y.Z) is for initial development, where anything *may* change at any time.
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In practice, we increment the patch version Z for bug fixes and backwards compatible changes;
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we increment the minor version Y for changes that could break websites using the theme
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without pinning it to a specific version.
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The label `NEW` in the theme website indicates a feature that has been changed or added
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since the release of the previous *minor* version.
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For example, after the release of v0.4.Z, the theme website should label `NEW` all features that
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we have changed or added since v0.3.0 – not just since v0.3.3.
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When we release v0.5.0, we will remove all those labels, and add labels on features since v0.4.0.
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The theme docs website is not itself versioned.
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It changes incrementally, independently of theme releases.
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#### Home page
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The theme home page now focuses on the simplest ways of using the theme.
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It also notes the different behaviour of `theme` and `remote_theme` in connection
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with interim versions of the theme, such as pre-releases.
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#### CHANGELOG
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The CHANGELOG page lists the changes made in all previous releases and pre-releases of new versions of the theme gem.
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It also lists changes made to the `main` branch of the theme since the latest release or pre-release.
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For changes since v0.3.3, the log usually references the merged PR that made the change and its author.
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### NON-BREAKING CHANGES (OUTLINE ONLY)
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Brief descriptions of the following changes are to be added below.
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#### Accessibility
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- Skip to main content: the first keyboard-navigatable item is now a link to skip over the sidebar and header to the main content of the page. PR: [#949].
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- Aria-labels: improved `aria-label`s have been added to various site elements. PRs: [#950], ...
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- Other general improvements: gradual changes have improved tab focusability, contrast, and semantic elements. More work still to come. PRs: [#498], [#846]
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#### Configuration
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- Mermaid support: first-class support for [Mermaid](https://mermaid.js.org/) - a JavaScript-based diagram and charting tool supported by GitHub - has been added to the theme. **This feature is opt-in.** See the new doc subsections in [Configuration]({% link docs/configuration.md %}#mermaid-diagrams) and [Code]({% link docs/ui-components/code.md %}#mermaid-diagram-code-blocks) for more.
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- Multiple Google Analytics tags are now supported. PR: [#1029]
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#### Customization
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- all user-facing text is now customizable; previously, several elements (ex search placeholder) were hardwired into the theme. Now, users can blend custom includes and layouts to internationalize their sites.
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- we've clarified the role of `custom.scss` to be imported last; to allow users to define custom or override variables, we've added a new file `setup.scss`. PR: [#1135]
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#### Custom Includes
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We've added several custom `_includes` to provide users with more customization options for different site elements. We've also added a section to [Configuration]({% link docs/customization.md %}#override-includes) to outline these.
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All of these are opt-in by default; however, **these may be breaking if you have existing `_includes` with the same name**.
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Each item is listed with the relevant file and PR.
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- TOC heading: `toc_heading_custom.html`, PR: [#980]
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- Navigation panel footer: `nav_footer_custom.html`, PR: [#474]
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- Search placeholder: `search_placeholder_custom.html`, PR: [#613]
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- Modular site components: `components/` and `icons/`, PR: [#1058]
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- Custom search indices: `lunr/`, PR: [#1068]
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In a future (version 1) release, we may rename the custom include files.
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#### Modular Components
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We've broken up the default layout (`_layouts/default.html`) into multiple reusable components. This should have no impact on most users; however, it should make it easier to implement custom layouts.
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For more, see [Custom layouts and includes]({% link docs/customization.md %}#custom-layouts-and-includes). PR: [#1058].
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#### Navigation
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- Collections: nav panel shows links to ordinary pages before collections
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- Collection folding; part of "Combination". PR: [#578]
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- Scrolling to show link to selected page. PR: [#639]
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- External nav links are now supported. PR: [#876]
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- Child nav order: sort navigation pages with `child_nav_order`. PR: [#726]
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- Order when mixing different ways of specifying nav order
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#### Search
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In addition to customizing the search placeholder, we've also added the ability to provide custom content to the search index. for more, see [Custom content for search index]({% link docs/search.md %}#custom-content-for-search-index). PR: [#1068].
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#### Styling
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- Code copying: code blocks now allow users to easily copy their contents. PR: [#945]
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- Blockquote: shows vertical bar on left. PR: [#965]
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- Links wrap. PR: [#905]
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- Callouts: a new component similar to alerts or banners. See [UI Components - Callouts]({% link docs/ui-components/callouts.md %}). PR: [#466]
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----
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[#856]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/856
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[#806]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/806
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[#555]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/555
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[#814]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/814
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[#778]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/778
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[#221]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/221
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[#782]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/782
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[#549]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/549
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[#554]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/554
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[#499]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/499
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[#473]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/473
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[#835]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/835
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[#891]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/891
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[#906]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/906
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[#578]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/578
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[#463]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/463
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[#448]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/448
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[#466]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/466
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[#477]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/477
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[#495]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/495
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[#496]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/496
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[#498]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/498
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[#494]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/494
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[#639]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/639
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[#544]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/544
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[#364]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/364
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[#498]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/498
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[#613]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/613
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[#726]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/726
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[#474]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/474
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[#829]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/829
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[#857]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/857
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[#876]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/876
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[#909]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/909
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[#519]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/519
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[#855]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/855
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[#686]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/686
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[#495]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/495
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[#846]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/846
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[#727]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/727
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[#889]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/889
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[#893]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/893
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[#905]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/905
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[#898]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/898
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[#950]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/950
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[#944]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/944
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[#939]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/939
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[#949]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/949
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[#941]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/941
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[#956]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/956
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[#935]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/935
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[#940]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/940
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[#951]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/951
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[#955]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/955
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[#937]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/937
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[#965]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/965
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[#960]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/960
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[#962]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/962
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[#964]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/964
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[#967]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/967
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[#974]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/974
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[#980]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/980
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[#985]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/985
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[#986]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/986
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[#992]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/992
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[#945]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/945
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[#999]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/999
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[#1000]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1000
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[#1001]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1001
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[#1010]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1010
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[#1015]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1015
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[#1018]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1018
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[#1019]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1019
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[#1021]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1021
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[#1027]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1027
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[#1029]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1029
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[#1040]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1040
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[#1061]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1061
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[#1065]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1065
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[#1071]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1071
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[#1074]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1074
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[#1076]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1076
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[#1077]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1077
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[#1090]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1090
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[#1091]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1091
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[#1092]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1092
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[#1095]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1095
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[#1068]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1068
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[#1135]: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1135
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