2.13.0

Fixes:

• Disable the parsing of timestamps in YAML metadata. (contributed by @TeXhackse, 75f6f20, 7d18b58, a27fdd9, #116)

Development:

• Add markdown document renderers. (2199c22, 4a70b04, #109)
• Add an example document for ConTeXt MkIV. (8bbb6ab, #17)

Default Renderer Prototypes:

• Redefine default LaTeX codeSpan renderer prototype to work in math mode. (35b53d3, e68a631)
• Support the unicode-math LaTeX package. (9d840be, #110)

Continuous Integration:

• Produce artefacts and GitHub pages only for the latest Docker tag. (976f074)
• Only push the latest Docker image once. (cc78fa1)
• Add --urlcheck option to the pkgcheck command in Makefile. (3b4d6a1, d9b2a01)

Docker:

• Show the size of the latest Docker image in the README. (1f680a8)

2.12.0

Fixes:

• Add default definition for \markdownRendererJekyllDataSequenceEnd. (6c4abe3)

Development:

• Preserve trailing spaces in ConTeXt MkIV. (#101)
• Add eagerCache Lua option. (#102)
• Add hardLineBreaks Lua option. (#98)

Documentation:

• Document how we can set Lua options from plain TeX and both Lua options and plain TeX options from LaTeX (#105)
• Update link to TUGboat 42(2) article from preprint to archival version. (715f53c)
• Add two articles from the CSTUG Bulletin 2021/1-4 to the README. (76da1d6)
• Escape percent signs in code examples in techdoc (7d6ca54)

Default Renderer Prototypes:

• Make content blocks automatically \input TeX files. (c798106)

Docker:

• Build and publish Docker images for historical TeX Live versions. (#111)

2.11.0

Fixes:

• Remove a spurious print when handling the texComments Lua option. (4ee94ec)
• Escape escaped_minimal_strings even in hybrid mode. (c1fd53b)
• Make assignments in writer->set_state() and writer->defer_call() local. (9261349)
• Don't let default LaTeX renderer prototype for ulItem gobble next token. (reported by @writersglen, 8d8023f)
• In LaTeX, prevent \@ifundefined from making \markdownOptionTightLists into \relax.
• Fix even backslashes before newline being gobbled by the texComments Lua option. (9ca0511)

Development:

• Add taskLists Lua option for writing task lists. (suggested by @xvrabcov, #95)
• Add jekyllData Lua option for writing YAML metadata. (contributed by @TeXhackse, #22, #77)

Documentation:

• Add a link to @Witiko's TUG 2021 talk, preprint, and slides to the README. (4b89f84, 6f61e48, 745a6f3, 99b1041, 872fb4d)
• Add a cornucopia of badges to the README. (60f7033, 8e9a34c)
• Use HTTPS links for CTAN in the README. (b068b65, a743b06)
• Use emoji in the technical documentation. (ccfcaf4)
• Add block and sequence diagrams to the technical documentation. (6168473, 0b4bb91, 5fd2e19, 3b4af9c, 4e99cb9, cbccf36, a7f9a60, 48d5a21)
• Add index to the technical documentation. (3ee5a99, 32d93e8)
• Add a list of figures to the technical documentation. (48d5a21)
• Use varioref in the technical documentation. (2f8e85e)
• Describe Lua command-line interface (CLI) in the README. (ba27b51, 1ad85a2)
• Publish user manual to GitHub Pages. (4a812a4, 4f1f349)
• Document that the hybrid option is false by default. (955d7c1)
• Show how tugboat.bib can be used to cite the Markdown package. (7e20eee)

Continuous Integration and Distribution:

• Rename master branch to main. (513de1f)
• Make make implode clean up auxiliary markdown files. (fe25ae9)
• Add Dockerfile and make continuous integration use Docker image. (#97, cbc0089, f64bfa5, 8a7b656, e185547, 1bb7075)
• Rebuild the Docker image every Monday at 4:30AM (UTC). (c9f87a9, 28b0e93)
• Automatically prerelease the latest version. (cd7fbd2)
• Use MarkdownLint in continuous integration. (2440659, aa1e14b)
• Test Lua command-line interface in continuous integration. (6a84f98, 4e28ef0)
• Matrix-test all supported TeX Live versions. (69b9edc)

2.10.1

Fixes:

• Always enable texComments when hybrid is enabled. (715d025)
• Make the preprocessor of TeX comments surjective. (6021dd5)

2.10.0

Fixes:

• String text and parenthetical citations. (e6026c1)
• Escape autolink labels even when hybrid mode is enabled. (repored by @iwelch, 693e134)
• Protect LaTeX strong emphasis renderer prototype and make it detect font. (reported by @iwelch, 89a031a)
• Let users name their documents markdown.tex. (reported by @mmarras, cb50d4, 9d21141)
• Support deferred content (footnotes, links, and images) with slicing. (edbdced)
• Support tables with slicing. (5a61511)
• Increment markdownFrozenCacheCounter globally. (c151cbc)
• Change the category code of the percent sign to other in \markdownInput. (b21fac4, 4d025e1, 5b1625f, 6f24307)
• Add \startmodule command to the ConTeXt module. (9f2ec1d)
• Add a missing local qualifier to the definition of a local variable. (1153afb)
• Don't allow LaTeX list item renderers to consume surrounding text. (reported by @nbubis, cb79225)

Development:

• Add the theme LaTeX option. (39ab6f3, 8699eb4, a1ae258, ea9c237, 3740742, 67aaf40)
• Add the stripIndent Lua option. (b94dda5, 5757067, 654624c)
• Add the texComments Lua options. (c439a0f, 5f7c5e3, 744bcdb, 1ec06f4, b74fd01, 2dd76f1)
• Add support for LuaMetaTeX. (f004170, 905c832, 575a1e0, f93a353)
• Add the inlineHtmlComment renderer. (bf54b2f)
• Add the plain LaTeX package option. (af9c0d6)
• Add the snippet LaTeX option. (b43024f, 438f075, 2960810)

Debugging:

• Add helpful messages to read/write errors. (contributed by @drehak, d22cd25)
• Make ConTeXt/LaTeX use their info/warning/error commands during loading. (a638a91)

Documentation:

• Remove deprecated filecontents package from examples. (dd2dc1c)
• Fix a typo in the user manual. (13f056)
• Fix code style in the user manual. (416c24e)
• Update out-of-date-documentation. (713ec92)
• Add Making Markdown into a Microwave Meal article into the README. (4698224)
• Add a link to @Witiko's PV212 talk to the README. (e5e8708)
• Fix overlong lines in the documentation. (34e9f4f)
• Update installation documentation. (b3957a8)
• Fix a typo in the documentation of expandtabs. (3e55507)
• Remove unnecessary footnotes option from the inlineFootnotes example. (30792ef)
• Fix a typo in the documentation of \markdownRendererOlItemWithNumber. (d05df9d)
• Fix errors in the documentation markup. (a6a0059)
• Remove multiply-defined refs in documentation. (ab99a30)

Licensing:

• Bump the copyright year. (9462f17)
• Sublicense the code as LPPL v1.3c. (609aeee)

Unit tests:

• Remove xtrace from test.sh for less verbose output. (b307ee6)
• Treat all files as text with GNU diff in test.sh. (ec89e6d)
• Print full TeX log when there is an error in a unit test. (7640c20)

Distribution:

• Add banner.png to the CTAN distribution. (fe107d6)
• Add base Makefile target. (41ab71a)

Continuous integration:

• Convert CircleCI configuration to GitHub Actions workflow. (0f77bc5)
• Add shellcheck. (27e825b)
• Upload artifacts in GitHub Actions workflows. (12e3585, e696d41)
• Install Graphviz in continuous integration. (3ebf0c9, 4ef340c)
• Test that the number of pages in typeset documentation is sane. (048b7fc)

Miscellanea:

• Use \@ifdefined and \@onlypreamble in LaTeX code. (40b77f4)

2.9.0

Development:

• Add support for finalizing and freezing the cache.

Fixes:

• Fix default definition of markdownRendererAmpersandPrototype.
• Remove redundant \label in contentBlocks LaTeX renderer prototype.
• Make LaTeX and ConTeXt implementations also expand \markdownEnd.
• Fortify I/O in Lua with additional asserts.

Documentation:

• Fix links in the documentation.
• Fix typos in the documentation.
• Remove deprecated filecontents package.
• Do not use package xcolor.
• Add blank lines to README.md.
• Add Citing Markdown section to README.md.
• Add banner to README.md.
• Cite new CSTUG Bulletin article.

Continuous integration:

• Use TeX Live 2020.

Miscellanea:

• Update distribution packaging according to CTAN requirements.

2.8.2

Fixes:

• Add example-image.png to the Git repository (closes issue #49).
• Require that text citations are not preceded by non-space characters.
• Add a line ending at the end of markdown file in case there is none.
• Do not assume \markdownInput input comes from \markdownOptionOutputDir (closes issue #57).

Documentation:

• Extend the abstract of the Markdown package.
• Document continuous integration and the Makefile.
• Properly highlight the syntax of shell commands in user manual.
• Add CSTUG bulletin articles to the README.

Miscellanea:

• Upgrade continuous integration from TeX Live 2019 to TeX Live 2020 pretest.

2.8.1

Fixes:

• Correctly produce the user manual for CTAN.
• Complete the support for named HTML entities (closes issue #36).

Documentation:

• Document the precise behavior of the preserveTabs Lua option (closes issue #38).
• Acknowledge Lian Tze Lim and Overleaf in the README.
• Link TUGboat journal articles from the README.
• Link the Markdown package installation from the README.

Miscellanea:

• Upgrade continuous integration from TeX Live 2019 pretest to TeX Live 2019.

2.8.0

Development:

• Added the pipeTables Lua option that enables the PHP Markdown table syntax extension, the tableCaptions Lua option that enables the Pandoc table_captions syntax extension, and the table token renderer. Thanks to David Vins and Omedym for sponsoring the development of table support.
• Added the shiftHeadings Lua option for shifting section levels, which extends the content slicing capabilities of the Markdown package. Thanks to David Vins and Omedym for sponsoring the development of content slicing.

Documentation:

• Update README links to Markdown examples and tutorials by Lian Tze Lim and Overleaf.

Fixes:

• Remove an unreachable branch of the parsers.line parser.

2.7.0

Development:

• Added Natbib citation renderer to LaTeX.
• Added the slice Lua option for content slicing – typesetting only certain parts of a markdown document.
  Thanks to David Vins and Omedym for sponsoring the development of content slicing.

Fixes:

• Stopped using the possibly active ASCII double quote characters (") after the \input TeX command.
• Added space before the second parameter in the basic LaTeX citation renderer.
• Fixed the outputDir Lua option, which enables the use of the -output-directory TeX option.
• Added support for Lua 5.3, which has been part of LuaTeX since 1.08.
• Fixed the non-terminating LaTeX citation renderers for BibTeX and Natbib.
• Fixed the capability of the unit testing script to add expected outcome to unfinished testfiles.

Documentation:

• Finished the user manual.
• Removed spurious commas in the documentation.
• Used CTAN-compatible markdown markup in the README.

Miscellaneous:

• Made the unit testing script write Lua stack trace to the terminal when a test fails.