# Kramdown 0.7.0 released **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 7, 2010, 12:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/kramdown-0-7-0-released/188196 "2010-05-07T12:41:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tlockney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5e9695/32.png) [@tlockney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tlockney)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 12:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/kramdown-0-7-0-released/188196/1 "2010-05-07T12:41:20Z")
## 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 0.7.0 released This release adds syntax support for abbreviations. This means that kramdown is now syntax-wise on par with Maruku and PHP Markdown Extra! Another big change is the extension support: After some discussion on the mailing list (many thanks to Eric Sunshine and Shawn Van Ittersum), the syntax for the extensions has been changed and support for custom extensions will be dropped in a future release. Additionally, the option `auto_ids` has been moved from being interpreted by the parser to being interpreted by the converters. This means that it is not possible anymore to turn automatic header ID generation on or off for parts of a text. The HTML and LaTeX converters also gained the ability to generate a table of contents. Just add the reference name “toc” to an ordered or unordered list and it will be replaced by the ToC (this is “coincidentally” the same syntax that Maruku uses…). ## Changes - Major changes: - Minor changes: - Bug fixes: - Deprecation notes: