hugo Releases

Hugo v0.168.0 introduces new features for handling animated images and language translation, upgrades to Go 1.27.2 for security, and improves build performance and dependency management.

Oct 13, 2026

This release introduces relative partial references, slug support for branch pages, and security hardening fixes. It also adds new configuration options for cleaning the destination directory and allows building without a config file.

Sep 28, 2026

This release upgrades Hugo to Go 1.27, introduces new template features such as the IndexOf method and resources.Publish, and significantly improves image processing capabilities along with security hardening.

Sep 9, 2026

This release introduces the `css.ChromaStyles` template function and the `importContext` option for CSS/JS/Sass/PostCSS builds, allowing resources to be resolvable in import statements. It also includes various bug fixes for server static file detection and resource transformation chaining.

Aug 12, 2026

Highlights include dark/light pairs for Chroma highlighter styles, new encoding and crypto template functions, and Pandoc citation support. The release also addresses a performance regression introduced in v0.128.0.

Jul 6, 2026

This release focuses on bug fixes, including escaping language strings in code blocks, preserving non-ASCII whitespace, and fixing a page/section name collision regression.

Jun 18, 2026

Improves error handling in the Node resolver and standardizes the behavior when external converters are missing.

Jun 15, 2026

Security updates addressing vulnerabilities in upstream dependencies and tightening security checks for IPv4 host encodings and symlinks.

Jun 11, 2026

Improvements to AVIF image handling, including adjusting the default quality to 60 and adding chroma subsampling hints for better memory usage.

Jun 8, 2026

Bug fixes for npm module stale warnings, dictionary behavior, and time locale-specific month abbreviations.

May 28, 2026

Major feature support for AVIF images (encoder and decoder) and significant security updates, including disallowing HTML content by default and upgrading to Go 1.26.3.

May 26, 2026

Security and configuration updates to honor Retry-After headers in remote resource requests and restrict default http.urls.

Apr 29, 2026

Introduces nested CSS variables, a flexible slice-based permalinks configuration, and a new filename identifier scheme for content and layout files.

Apr 28, 2026

This release focuses on fixing critical panics and context handling issues in RenderShortcodes, passthrough elements, and multilingual site configurations.

Apr 8, 2026

Introduces CSS variable injection via `css.Build` and improves the `.Position` method for all render hooks, alongside several bug fixes.

Apr 4, 2026

Addresses a security vulnerability regarding XSS in Markdown links and images, alongside a fix for resource file handling.

Apr 1, 2026

Fixes a regression where the SVG minifier stripped namespace attributes required by libraries like AlpineJS.

Mar 26, 2026

Significantly improves Node.js/npm dependency management in multi-module setups and updates deprecated methods in tests.

Mar 23, 2026

Adds `css.Build` for fast CSS bundling and upgrades to Go 1.26.1. It also deprecates and removes several legacy configuration options and template functions.

Mar 16, 2026

Adds GitInfo support for Hugo Modules and introduces partial support for new image formats like AVIF and HEIF.

Feb 25, 2026