Highlights

• Introduce ARTICLE_ORDER_BY and PAGE_ORDER_BY settings to control the order of articles and pages.
• Include time zone information in dates rendered in templates.
• Expose the reader name in the metadata for articles and pages.
• Allow storing static files in the same directory as content source files, without causing the raw content sources to be published.
• Introduce the {attach} internal link syntax for placing a static file in the same output directory as the document that links to it.
• Prevent Pelican from raising an exception when there are duplicate pieces of metadata in a Markdown file.
• Introduce the TYPOGRIFY_IGNORE_TAGS setting to add HTML tags to be ignored by Typogrify.
• Add the ability to use - in date formats to strip leading zeros. For example, %-d/%-m/%y will now result in the date 9/8/12.
• Ensure feed generation is correctly disabled during quickstart configuration.
• Fix PAGE_EXCLUDES and ARTICLE_EXCLUDES from incorrectly matching sub-directories.
• Introduce STATIC_EXCLUDE setting to add static file excludes.
• Fix an issue when using PAGINATION_PATTERNS while RELATIVE_URLS is enabled.
• Fix feed generation causing links to use the wrong language for month names when using other locales.
• Fix an issue where the authors list in the simple template wasn't correctly formatted.
• Fix an issue when parsing non-string URLs from settings.
• Improve consistency of debug and warning messages.

For a full list of changes, see: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/compare/3.4.0...3.5.0

Upgrading from previous releases

While we do everything we can to maximize backwards compatibility and ensure smooth Pelican upgrades, it's possible that you may encounter un-anticipated wrinkles. If you run into problems, please reach out via the #pelican channel on IRC, and we will update this post with any upgrade tips contributed by the Pelican community.