v9.1.4

Mar 30 2021

v9.1.3

Mar 28 2021

Added

Fixes

Design

v9.1.2

Feb 11 2021

v9.1.1

Feb 9 2021

v9.1.0

Feb 5 2021

Version 9.1 provides minor design changes, new features, and closes multiple issues:

Added

Changed

Fixes

v9.0.5

Sept 8 2020

v9.0.4

July 15 2020

v9.0.3

July 9 2020

v9.0.2

July 7 2020

v9.0.1

July 6 2020

v9.0.5

Sept 8 2020

v9.0.4

July 15 2020

v9.0.3

July 9 2020

v9.0.2

July 7 2020

v9.0.1

July 6 2020

v9.0.0

July 3 2020

Major

Minor

Design

Fixes

v8.5.2

August 31 2019

v8.5.1

Aug 1 2019

v8.5.0

Aug 1 2019

Changed

Added

Fixed

v8.4.0

Mar 9 2019

v8.3.0

Feb 18 2019

This version adds new options to increase production build speed. Read this post for details.

Added

Changed

v8.2.0

Feb 1 2019

v8.1.1

Sep 1 2018

Fixes

v8.1.0

Aug 18 2018

This release adds Dark Mode for Hydejack PRO customers.

Breaking

In an attempt to make the PRO offering more appealing, I’m removing features that arguably should have never been included in the free version. As software licenses go, nobody is stopping you from using the old code, but updates will no longer be included.

Changed

Added

v8.0.0

Jul 16 2018

So far Hydejack has been a decent Jekyll theme, but with v8 it really starts stand out among the competition: Beautiful and unique landing pages, lazy-loading images, and experimental offline support are just the most prominent new features.

Breaking

Changed

Added

Fixes

v7.5.1

Apr 2 2018

Changed

v7.5.0

Dec 18 2017

Added

Fixed

Other

v7.4.2

Dec 1 2017

Fixed

v7.4.1

Nov 27 2017

Fixed

v7.4.0

Nov 25 2017

Added

Fixed

Design

Other

v7.3.0

Nov 17 2017

Added

Fixed

v7.2.0

Nov 13 2017

Added

Design

Fixes

v7.1.1

Nov 3 2017

Fixes

v7.1.0

Nov 2 2017

Changed

Fixes

Content

v7.0.1

Oct 27 2017

Fixes

Content

Removed

v7.0.0

Oct 24 2017

License Change

The free version of Hydejack is now GPL-3.0 licensed, which is a more restrictive license than MIT (but still Open Source). This was necessary because the two major components that make up Hydejack, hy-push-state and hy-drawer, are now GPL licensed in turn.

How will this affect you?

The full license text is available here. You can read a summary on tl;drLegel.

If this change is not acceptable to you, DO NOT upgrade or consider buying a PRO license.

Note that the above does not constitute legal advice.

Breaking

This is a major release, but almost all options and APIs that were described in the docs continue to work. Some names have changed and are no longer mentioned in the docs, but they are still part of the code and continue to work.

That being said, you should be aware of these (small) breaking changes:

Changes

Added

Performance

Design

Fixes

v6.6.1

Aug 10 2017

v6.6.0

Aug 7 2017

v6.5.0

Jul 27 2017

This maintenance release includes various quality-of-life improvements when using the gem-based version of the theme.

Added

Changed

Design

How to restore the old styles

If you would like to use the old font, add the following to _config.yml:

font_heading: "'Roboto Slab', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
font:         "'Noto Serif', Georgia, serif"
google_fonts: "Roboto+Slab:700|Noto+Serif:400,400i,700,700i"

If you were relying on the default setting for the background image, add the following to _config.yml:

image: /hydejack/assets/img/nap.jpg

Note that you have to replace /hydejack with your baseurl.

To restore the old sidebar, open (or create) _sass/my-inline.scss and add the following:

@media screen { .sidebar-sticky { left: 2rem; max-width: none; } }

To remove the border radius, open (or create) _sass/my-inline.scss and add the following:

.card, .pagination-item { border-radius: 0!important; }

v6.4.1

Jun 23 2017

v6.4.0

Jun 21 2017

In this release I’ve added a “Other Projects” section to the bottom of each project page, making it easier for users to navigate through your collection and discover other projects. Also, it’s now possible to display larger (data-) tables that were previously cut off (especially on mobile devices).

For more on how to add tables, see the new section in docs/writing.

Smaller changes include a reduced usage of horizontal lines and a more “semantic” use of hr elements. Specifically, the semantics of the resume layout have been improved.

Minor

Design

Fixes

v6.3.0

Jun 6 2017

This release makes including third party plugins easier. Until now, the push state approach to loading new pages has been interfering with embedded script tags. This version changes this by simulating the sequential loading of script tags on a fresh page load.

This approach should work in a majority of cases, but can still cause problems with scripts that can’t be added more than once per page. If an issue can’t be resolved, there’s now the option to disable push state by setting disable_push_state: true in config.yml.

Minor

Design

Fixes

v6.2.0

May 29 2017

v6.1.1

May 23 2017

v6.1.0

May 15 2017

v6.0.0 (JavaScripten)

May 3 2017

Hydejack has always featured a JavaScript-heavy sidebar, but other than that, JS has been used sparingly. This changes with this release, which adds a ton of (optional) code that changes the feel of the theme dramatically.

Major

Pages are now loaded and swapped through JavaScript. This has a number of effects. First of all, it looks cool, but the animations aren’t just about aesthetics: They also help to hide the network time of fetching the next page, making the entire site feel faster. At the same time, the FOUC introduced in the last release will no longer occur (except on the initial page load).

See the the migration guide for instructions on how to upgrade.

Minor

Fixes

v5.3.0

Oct 1 2016

a11y improvements

Math support improvements

v5.2.0

Sep 29 2016

Prevent structural FOUC

v5.1.0

Sep 28 2016

Cross-browser compatibility improvements:

v5.0.0 (The Fast One)

Sep 16 2016

This major release increases page load speed dramatically. The page now scores roughly 90/100 on Google’s PageSpeed Insights (up from ~50) and has a high score on similar tools.

Most importantly, the critical rendering path is no longer blocked by loading styles or scripts, meaning the site becomes visible faster.

Page load speed matters to Google, but is also very apparent to visitors with slow internet connections.

However, as a side effect of these optimizations, the site now has a visible FOUC. Future versions might address this, but it is the currency in which loading speed is being payed for and can not be fully avoided.

Major

In order to minify the CSS and make it more modular it has been rewritten in SCSS.

Minor

Trivia

Not strictly part of the release, but the images have been blurred to increase text readability and help with loading speed as well (burred images get compressed by JPG much better).

v4.0.1

Sep 11 2016

Fix per-page color and image

v4.0.0 (Social Media Impocalypse)

Aug 30 2016

Breaking

New features

Design

Fixes

Internal

v3.0.0 (Hydejack)

May 7 2016

Hydejack is a pretentious two-column Jekyll theme, stolen by @qwtel from Hyde. You could say it was.. hydejacked.

Features

Unlike Hyde, it’s very opinionated about how you are going to use it.

Features include:

v2.0.0 (Hyde)

Jan 2 2014

v1.0.0 (Hyde)

Oct 15 2013