# Kramdown 0.9.0 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/kramdown-0-9-0-released/190580>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 23, 2010, 8:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/kramdown-0-9-0-released/190580 "2010-06-23T08:51:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 8:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/kramdown-0-9-0-released/190580/1 "2010-06-23T08:51:51Z")

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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 0.9.0 released

The biggest change in this release is the addition of a kramdown  
converter. This converter together with the HTML parser enables one to  
convert an HTML document into a kramdown document.

Apart from that there are many other small changes and bug fixes, a  
full list of which you find below.

## Changes

- Major changes:

- Minor changes:

- Bug fixes:

- Deprecation notes: