# Kramdown 0.4.0 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/kramdown-0-4-0-released/182102>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 22, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/kramdown-0-4-0-released/182102 "2010-01-22T17:52:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/kramdown-0-4-0-released/182102/1 "2010-01-22T17:52:37Z")

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## About kramdown

kramdown (sic, not Kramdown or KramDown, just kramdown) is a _free_  
GPL-licensed [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org) library for parsing a  
superset of Markdown. It is completely written in Ruby, supports  
standard Markdown (with some minor modifications) and various  
extensions that have been made popular by the [PHP Markdown Extra]  
package and [Maruku].  
Homepage for installation instructions and documentation:  
[http://kramdown.rubyforge.org](http://kramdown.rubyforge.org)

## kramdown 0.4.0 released

This release features the addition of a [simple table syntax](http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/syntax.html#tables) and  
[syntax highlighting](http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/syntax.html#syntax-highlighting) of code blocks. I think that with these two  
additions kramdown now supports all the major features regarding  
parsing and HTML output that Maruku supports.

Regarding speed: Simple benchmarks using the Markdown README file (can  
be found inside [this zip file](http://daringfireball.net/projects/downloads/Markdown_1.0.1.zip)) show that kramdown is currently  
faster than, for example, the original Markdown.pl, PHP Markdown, PHP  
Markdown Extra, Python Markdown and Maruku.

## Changes

- Major changes:

- Minor changes:

- Bug fixes: