text: ---
  date: 2016-10-07T10:56:02-04:00
  description: ""
  tags:
  - go
  - development
  - hugo
  title: Hugo goes global
  topics:
  - Development
  - golang
  ---
  
  Hugo is going Global! Hugo 0.17, released today, is our best and fastest
  release ever! **Hugo 0.17 is nearly twice as fast as Hugo 0.16** and adds
  **full support for multilingual websites** with i18n support throughout all
  of Hugo.
  
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  Hugo is going global with our 0.17 release. We put a lot of thought into
  how we could extend Hugo to support multilingual websites with the most
  simple and elegant experience. Hugo’s multilingual capabilities rival
  the best web and documentation software, but Hugo’s experience is
  unmatched. If you have a single language website, the simple Hugo
  experience you already love is unchanged. Adding additional languages to
  your website is simple and straightforward. Hugo has been completely
  internally rewritten to be multilingual aware with translation and
  internationalization features embedded throughout Hugo.
  
  Hugo continues its trend of each release being faster than the last.
  It’s quite a challenge to consistently add significant new functionality
  and simultaneously dramatically improve performance.
  [@bep](//github.com/bep) has made it his personal mission to apply the
  Go mantra of “Enable more. Do less” to Hugo. Hugo’s consistent
  improvement is a testament to his brilliance and his dedication to his
  craft. Hugo is further benefited from the performance improvements from
  the Go team in the Go 1.7 release.
  
  This release represents **over 300 contributions by over 70
  contributors** to the main Hugo code base. Since last release Hugo has
  **gained 2000 stars, 50 new contributors and 20 additional themes.**
  
  Hugo now has:
  
  *   12,000 stars on GitHub
  *   370+ contributors
  *   110+ themes  
  
  [@bep](//github.com/bep) continues to lead the project with the
  lionshare of contributions and reviews. A special thanks to
  [@bep](//github.com/bep) and [@abourget](//github.com/abourget) for
  their considerable work on multilingual support.
  
  A big welcome to newcomers
  [@MarkDBlackwell](//github.com/MarkDBlackwell) ,
  [@bogem](//github.com/bogem) and [@g3wanghc](//github.com/g3wanghc) for
  their critical contributions.
  
  ### Highlights
  
  **Multilingual Support:** Hugo now supports multiple languages
  side-by-side. A single site can now have multiple languages rendered
  with full support for translation and i18n.
  
  **Performance:** Hugo is faster than ever! Hugo 0.17 is not only our
  fastest release, it’s also the most efficient. Hugo 0.17 is **nearly
  twice as fast as Hugo 0.16** and uses about 10% less memory. This means
  that the same site will build in nearly half the time it took with Hugo
  0.16. For the first time Hugo sites are averaging well under 1ms per
  rendered content.
  
  **Docs overhaul:** This release really focused on improving the
  documentation. [Gohugo.io](http://gohugo.io) is more accurate and
  complete than ever.
  
  **Support for Mac OS Sierra**
  
  ### New Features
  
  *   Multilingual support [#2303](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2303)
  *   Allow content expiration [#2137](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2137)
  *   New templates functions:
      *   `querify` function to generate query strings inside templates [#2257](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2257)
      *   `htmlEscape` and `htmlUnescape` template functions [#2287](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2287)
      *   `time` converts a timestamp string into a time.Time structure [#2329](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2329)
  
  ### Enhancements
  
  *   Render the shortcodes as late as possible [ed0985](//github.com/spf13/hugo/commit/ed0985404db4630d1b9d3ad0b7e41fb186ae0112)
  *   Remove unneeded casts in page.getParam [#2186](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2186)
  *   Automatic page date fallback [#2239](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2239)
  *   Enable safeHTMLAttr [#2234](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2234)
  *   Add TODO list support for markdown [#2296](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2296)
  *   Make absURL and relURL accept any type [#2352](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2352)
  *   Suppress ‘missing static’ error [#2344](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2344)
  *   Make summary, wordcount etc. more efficient [#2378](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2378)
  *   Better error reporting in `hugo convert` [#2440](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2440)
  *   Reproducible builds thanks to govendor [#2461](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2461)
  
  ### Fixes
  
  *   Fix shortcode in markdown headers [#2210](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2210)
  *   Explicitly bind livereload to hugo server port [#2205](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2205)
  *   Fix Emojify for certain text patterns [#2198](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2198)
  *   Normalize file name to NFC [#2259](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2259)
  *   Ignore emacs temp files [#2266](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2266)
  *   Handle symlink change event [#2273](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2273)
  *   Fix panic when using URLize [#2274](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2274)
  *   `hugo import jekyll`: Fixed target path location check [#2293](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2293)
  *   Return all errors from casting in templates [#2356](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2356)
  *   Fix paginator counter on x86-32 [#2420](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2420)
  *   Fix half-broken self-closing shortcodes [#2499](//github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2499)
  
  