2.6.0

Except for some minor changes in the README document, this version is identical to version 2.5.6. The author realized that they had forgotten to increase the minor version number despite adding a significant amount of new functionality.

2.5.6

Development:

• Added a Lua command-line interface.
• Added the stripPercentSign Lua option for using markdown in TeX package documentation.

Fixes:

• Fixed TeX Live 2013 minted package detection.
• Fixed the default LaTeX hyperlink renderer prototype to correctly typeset hash signs.
• Fixed lonely level four and five headings not being rendered in LaTeX.
• Removed the no-op outputDir Lua option.

Documentation:

• Added a user manual.
• Added information for contributors to the README document.
• Increased portability of the technical documentation by using a built-in BibLaTeX style.
• Rewrote the technical documentation in markdown using the new stripPercentSign Lua option.

Miscellaneous:

• Tuned the continuous integration service configuration, so that tests run under 15 minutes.

2.5.5

Documentation:

• Fixed a typo in section 2.2.1.
• Documented that the contentBlocksCode renderer receives five arguments.
• Updated information in the documentation bibliography.
• Incremented the year in copyright notices.

2.5.4

Fixes:

• \markdownInfo writes only to the log in the plain TeX implementation.
• \markdownInfo and \markdownWarning start a new line in the plain TeX
  implementation.
• Lua errors are now caught even with shell escape.

Development:

• Added an outputDir option that enables the use of the TeX -output-directory
  option.

2.5.3

Fixes:

• Added a missing file examples/scientists.csv to the CTAN archive.

Documentation:

• Added examples into the TDS archive.
• Replaced tux in the examples with a generic example image.

Development:

• Updated the code for initializing testfiles.

2.5.2

Fixes:

• Added proper support for trailing internal punctuation in citations.

2.5.1

Fixes:

• Tab-indented fenced code is now supported.
• Added missing underscore to parsers.internal_punctuation.
• Removed unnecessary internal punctuation escaping ($&~) in citations.

Documentation:

• Corrected typo in bibliography.

2.5.0

New features:

• Added the codeSpans and underscores options.

Documentation:

• Reordered options alphabetically.

2.4.0

Fixes:

• Fixed the number of arguments in the \markdownError dummy definition.

New features:

• Added the iA Writer content blocks syntax extension.

Documentation:

• Fixed errors in the Lua interface documentation.
• Fixed a typo in the tests/templates directory documentation.

Development:

• Added parallelized unit testing.

2.3.0

Fixes:

• ConTeXt module no longer mishandles active characters from \enableregime.
• Shell access is no longer necessary with ConTeXt MarkIV.
• The default renderers now render strong emphasis using a bold font face
  rather than a bold-italic font face.
• Lazy blockquotes are now parsed properly.

New features:

• Added optional HTML support; when the support is enabled, the Markdown reader
  will recognize HTML elements, entities, instructions, and comments in the
  input.
• Added optional breakable blockquotes support; when the support is enabled,
  blockquotes can be split apart using blank lines.

Documentation:

• Documented the behavior of the -output-directory TeX option.

Development:

• Removed unnecessary PEG patterns.
• PEG patterns are now hash table entries rather than local variables; this was
  a necessary step due to the local variable number limit. This change was also
  backported to and merged by the upstream project.
• The unit test templates now use M4 instead of ad-hoc sed string replacement.
• The Lua text buffering routine was removed as it only introduced complexity
  to the package with no tangible benefits. All text buffering is now done in
  TeX. As a corrolary, the \markdownLuaRegisterIBCallback and
  \markdownLuaUnregisterIBCallback macros have been deprecated.