# Kramdown 0.8.0 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/kramdown-0-8-0-released/189833>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 8, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/kramdown-0-8-0-released/189833 "2010-06-08T15:58:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/kramdown-0-8-0-released/189833/1 "2010-06-08T15:58:30Z")

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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 0.8.0 released

One of the bigger changes in this release is the support for converting  
HTML tags into native kramdown elements via the new `html_to_native`  
option. For example, the HTML tag `p` is converted to the native  
paragraph element instead of a generic HTML tag if this option is set  
to `true`. This is especially useful for converters that don’t handle  
generic HTML tags (e.g. the LaTeX converter).

This conversion is a feature of the new standalone HTML parser which is  
used by the kramdown parser for parsing HTML tags.

Also note that support for the old extension syntax and custom  
extensions has been dropped as of this release! And the `filter_html`  
option will be removed in the next release because there exist better  
facilities for performing this kind of task!

## Changes

- Major changes:

- Minor changes:

- Bug fixes:

- Deprecation notes: