Announcement about VuePress v2 and v1

[meteorlxy]

Status of VuePress v1

VuePress v1 is not actively maintained now.

We are developing the next major version, i.e. VuePress v2, and VuePress v1 is likely to be deprecated in the near future.

We cannot guarantee that current pending issues and PRs can be handled in time, and they are likely to be closed directly once VuePress v2 is released.

So, if you are instrested in contributing to VuePress, please go to VuePress v2 repo, or wait for the stable release of v2.

Status of VuePress v2

VuePress v2 comes with some major updates:

• TypeScript
• Vue 3
• Webpack 5
• Vite support

It also has some breaking changes, while most of the features of v1 are supported.

• VuePress v2 repository: vuepress-next.
• VuePress v2 site: https://v2.vuepress.vuejs.org

[francoisromain]

Thank you for the headsup.
Is there any info about the breaking changes or migration guide?

[zq99299]

Just tried to separate parts of a large project into VuePress2 and found that the documentation was not complete and the infrastructure was not yet built

刚刚尝试将大型项目分隔一部分到 vuepress2 来，发现文档还不齐全，基础设施还构建不起来

[francoisromain]

@zq99299 There is a partial list of breaking changes here : https://github.com/vuepress/vuepress-next

I tried vuepress version 2 too, but it is not working yet.

[meteorlxy]

@francoisromain You can go to vuepress-next repo if you have any bugs to report.

VuePress 2 is already working online. For example:

• https://vuepress.github.io
• https://vue-showdown.js.org

[francoisromain]

@meteorlxy I opened two issues on the vuepress 2 repo.

as for vuepress 1, I am still stuck on this one: #2155

Thank you for your work on vuepress

[thewhiterabbit]

Is there a demo of this? It would be best to see a live demo in action before spending resources installing this.

[davestewart]

Will there be the opportunity to propose any PRs to this repo, before depreciation?

[ulivz]

We encourage new users to try 2.0, but it is worth noting that most of the ecoloies and users still rely on VuePress 1.x, since there are so many plugins and themes that drive different websites all over the world, so I trust it's very necessary to keep VuePress 1.0 updated.

BTW, because I have some free time to come back to this project, so I will continue to maintain VuePress 1.0 until VitePress can completely replace VuePress, but this does have a long way to go.

Recently I have added full TS support for VuePress 1.x, welcome 1.x users to upgrade.

• TypeScript Support for Config File
• TS Support for VuePress Plugin and Theme.

[davestewart]

@ulivz - where would be the best place to post feature requests?

I note you say "it's very necessary to keep VuePress 1.0 updated" but is this only fixes or patches? Will there be any back ports or new features (e.g. I would consider your TS update a new "feature").

I've been meaning to post something for a while now, but have not got round to it. Where should I post it, the v1 or v2 repo?

Thanks very much for your hard work 👍

[He110te4m]

Status of VuePress v1

VuePress v1 is not actively maintained now.

We are developing the next major version, i.e. VuePress v2, and VuePress v1 is likely to be deprecated in the near future.

We cannot guarantee that current pending issues and PRs can be handled in time, and they are likely to be closed directly once VuePress v2 is released.

So, if you are instrested in contributing to VuePress, please go to VuePress v2 repo, or wait for the stable release of v2.

Status of VuePress v2

VuePress v2 comes with some major updates:

• TypeScript
• Vue 3
• Webpack 5
• Vite support

It also has some breaking changes, while most of the features of v1 are supported.

• VuePress v2 repository: vuepress-next.
• VuePress v2 site: https://v2.vuepress.vuejs.org

VuePress2 does not support Vue2, VuePress1 does not support Vite, is there an alternative that supports Vue2 with Vite?

[kaosine]

Can I suggest for this that you update the readme.md to reflect that most work is being done under vuepress/vuepress-next? This bit:

VuePress is now in maintenance mode. For a next-gen Vue-based SSG built on top of 
Vue 3 + Vite, check out [VitePress](https://vitepress.vuejs.org/).

Makes it seem like vuepress as a whole is dead, instead of being actively maintained.