Spress 2.2.0 released

Hi community. After several months working on Spress 2.2.0, it is here with 11 new features, 6 improvements and 8 fixes. The highlights of this release are the support for themes, a little package manager based on Composer and the jumps to PHP 5.6 dropping the support for 5.5. Additionally, an issue related with copying dot-files such as .htaccess into build directory has been fixed.

Themes

Themes let you create sites based on community-maintained templates. These ones package layouts, includes and assets in a way that can be overridden by your site content. Themes are published via Packagist.org. The new:site command has been updated to let you create a site based on any theme. Additionaly, a new:theme command has been added to facilitate the task of create a new theme. You can get more details about this one here.

The package manager

A little package manager based on Composer has been introduced in this version so that no external commands are needed to install plugins or themes. The spress-installer package has been updated and 3 new commands has been added: add:plugin, remove:plugin and update:plugin.

The complete changelog:

• New Support for themes. See the new feature #98.
• New Package manager with the following new commands: new:theme, add:plugin, remove:plugin and update:plugin. Additionaly, new:site command has been updated for scaffolding new sites using themes. See the new feature #96.
• New Dropped the support for PHP 5.5. The minimum version is 5.6.
• New Allow default attributes on "pages" collection. See new feature #93.
• New New options for applying avoid_renderizer feature to type of files and files belong to a path (relative to src/content folder). See new feature #91.
• New Added a verbosity level param (optional) to the write method of IOInterface.
• New Added verbosity and very-verbosity level messages to the ContentManager class.
• New Added support for overwriting messages to the output in IOInterface.
• New Added support for ask choice questions in IOInterface.
• New Added the method getSpress to CommandEnvironmentInterface.
• New Updated to using Symfony 3.2 components.
• Improved Updated PluginManagerBuilder class with support for loading several plugins from extra->spress_class attribute of a plugin's composer.json file.
• Improved Renamed some tests with a more descritive name.
• Improved Fixed some descriptions in commands.
• Improved Replaced the use of PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase class by TestCase.
• Improved Deleted the .htaccess value from include key of configuration files due to the fix #107.
• Improved The terms generated by TaxonomyGenerator for each item appears sorted.
• Fixed The Spress-installer plugin is included in the composer.json file when a new blank theme is created.
• Fixed Fixed an issue when loading layouts and includes of the current theme.
• Fixed Fixed an issue related with the presedence between the theme's assets and the site's assets.
• Fixed Bug #107 fixed: ".htaccess not being included in build".
• Fixed Fixed an issue related to the convertion to array of a Finder class in FilesystemDataSource class.
• Fixed Avoid an error using --force option of new:site command over a non-empty directory that contains "hidden" directories and files.
• Fixed Fixed a bug related with the "pagination generator" and the draft posts. See bug #101.
• Fixed Fixed the askAndHideAnswer method of ConsoleIO class to use the fallback argument.

How to get this version?

You can download Spress from the download page or if you have a previous version installed you can run self-update command:

$ spress self-update