The v0.13.0 release is the largest Hugo release to date. The release introduced some long sought after features (pagination, sequencing, data loading, tons of template improvements) as well as major internal improvements. In addition to the code changes, the Hugo community has grown significantly and now has over 3000 stars on github, 134 contributors, 24 themes and 1000s of happy users.

This release represents 448 contributions by 65 contributors

A special shout out to @bep and @anthonyfok for their new role as Hugo maintainers and their tremendous contributions this release.

What I like about this release is the GetJSON and GetCSV functionality. At the moment with Harp I use a php script to output CSV files into the correct harp json format and then build the site. Great for big databases of parts or products. It also looks like Hugo may generate faster than Harp (which os node based) quite useful in my case where sites of several thousand static pages will generate faster.

Hugo is great. It seems like a lot of people use Octopress / Jekyll for this kind of thing, but they bring in the entire Ruby / RVM ecosystem to do so, which is way overkill. I find Hugo to be much simpler and easier to manage.

It took a while, but this is a solid release with some really fun features added.

More documentation (examples, tutorials, troubleshooting) for new users.

Paginaton support, finally ... Good stuff.