Update: What's New in Version 0.5.1

First, make sure that you have saved all your blog posts. Every unsaved draft will be lost because we have changed the storage system in this version.

To upgrade your instance you have to create a pull request on your repository. Go to:

For example for our blog, the username is HubPress, the repository name is blog.hubpress.io and we use the branch gh-pages, so the url is:

If you use the branch master like Jared does (his username is jaredmorgs, the repository name is jaredmorgs.github.io):

Then you have to create a pull request with the listed changes and merge it.

The last action is to log into your HubPress administration console. Go to the Settings page and Save. This action rebuilds all your blog posts with the improvements featured in this blog.

And voilà!

Release 0.4.0 added two new themese: ghostium and uno-zen.

What we noticed is that the theme folders used a mixture of upper and lower case, which made it tricky to set the theme correctly in the Admin console.

In 0.5.1 all theme names have been changed to lowercase. This is breaking change, and you will need to check that the theme you’ve chosen in the Settings are lowercase.

Refer to the folder names in the /themes folder in your repository, or in the Administration.adoc Admin Guide.

Technically, HubPress already allowed to you set a collaborator on your repo so more than one user could write posts.

What HubPress didn’t do was honour the post creator (author) if the settings were changed, and the site was regenerated.

With 0.5.1, if you write a blog post, your GitHub user name will always be attached to the post.

If you create a blog post, then another blogger on your team publishes it, the person who originally created the post is credited with writing the post.

In a future release, we plan on enhancing how writer attribution is handled in the post, so stay tuned.

With the 0.5.1 release, the author page is now available!

The author page regroups all the posts for a specific author.

Here is an example from our blog:

You no longer have to "delete" blogs posts by reusing an unwanted, unpublished blog post.

The action overflow (three dots menu) next to each of your posts now has a Delete button.

Previous releases required you to reauthenticate in the HubPress Administration Console to synchronize your local content.

With the 0.5.1 release, we introduce the Synchronize button:

Solarized is now the default theme for the editor, you can switch easily between light and dark with one button:

You can now use includes in your AsciiDoc content:

Developers use gist to store code snippets, and with 0.5.1 you can now use the gist macro to integrate those snippets in your post.

For example with the gist https://gist.github.com/anthonny/7786310 the usage is as follows:

In versions prior to 0.5.1, if you didn’t have a Level 1 heading starting your blog post, you were not able to save your blog post. The error that displayed as a result of this was not clear, which caused frustration for some users.

In 0.5.1, the editor now has basic validation built-in. If you don’t start your blog with a Level 1 heading, there are no Preview or Save buttons in the editor. This is a visual clue to check your blog structure.

If you want some tips on writing successful blog posts with HubPress, check out the Writers' Guide in your repository.

The documentation for HubPress has undergone further improvements to better align the content.

The Administration guide has had a content shuffle to remove information that should have been in the Writer’s Guide.

The Writer’s Guide had some stray Administration content in it, which has now been moved into it’s proper home.

Check out the docs and let us know if you see room for improvement.

Look out for the HubPress docs you see in your forked repository on https://gitbook.com in the very near future.

GitBook are huge supporters of Open Source projects, and make managing documentation for your project or your organisation easy. The team has been very generous in offering HubPress an Open Source license to use for our GitHub organisation.

This allows Jared to separate documentation updates from code releases, and allows you to make in-line comments directly on the hosted docs. No Pull Request required. It’s an easy way to provide quick feedback on the documentation, so the team can make improvements in rapid iteration.

Jared will migrate the user guides currently in your repository over to https://www.gitbook.com/@hubpress/ and will re-align the README.adoc with links to these new resources.

HubPress is now on Gratipay!

It’s not the only way you can help us, but it is certainly a welcome one. Donations are a great way to show your appreciation for the platform: it inspires us to dedicate extra time away from our families and day jobs to make HubPress an awesome blogging platform for you.