# Bluecloth 2.0.4 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 30, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bluecloth-2-0-4/171288 "2009-06-30T03:51:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bluecloth-2-0-4/171288/1 "2009-06-30T03:51:24Z")
Version 2.0.4 of bluecloth has been released. BlueCloth is a Ruby implementation of [Markdown][1], a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. To quote from the project page: Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). == Project Page [dev(E)iate](http://deveiate.org/projects/BlueCloth/) == Installation Via gems: $ sudo gem install bluecloth or from source: $ wget [http://deveiate.org/code/bluecloth-2.0.4.tar.gz](http://deveiate.org/code/bluecloth-2.0.4.tar.gz) $ tar -xzvf bluecloth-2.0.4.tar.gz $ cd bluecloth-2.0.4 $ sudo rake install == Changes - Added some more tests for various Discount extensions. - Added support for the MKD\_AUTOLINK (:auto\_links =\> true) and MKD\_SAFELINK (:safe\_links =\> true) Discount settings. - Updated to Discount 1.4.4. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 7:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bluecloth-2-0-4/171288/2 "2009-06-30T07:04:48Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > Version 2.0.4 of bluecloth has been released. Any plans to support some of the extensions that maruku supports, like tables and footnotes? Or does it already? [http://maruku.rubyforge.org/maruku.html#extra](http://maruku.rubyforge.org/maruku.html#extra)