# Webgen 0.5.11 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-11-released/183481>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 15, 2010, 11:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-11-released/183481 "2010-02-15T11:02:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 11:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webgen-0-5-11-released/183481/1 "2010-02-15T11:02:08Z")

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## Hey everybody!

webgen 0.5.11 has just been released! If you don’t know what webgen is,  
read the “What’s webgen?” section down below.

This announcement is also available at  
[http://webgen.rubyforge.org/news/release\_0\_5\_11.html](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/news/release_0_5_11.html)

In this release there are two big changes regarding the internals of  
webgen:

1. The dependency on facets has been removed since it was only used in  
two or three places and since the facets project is not very stable  
regarding its API.

2. The default markup language used by the webgen is Markdown and the  
default processor for converting Markdown to HTML has been Maruku  
for a long time. However, Maruku has some bugs that need to be  
fixed and although it runs under Ruby 1.9 there are some issues.  
Therefore the new default processor for Markdown will be  
[kramdown](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/contentprocessor/kramdown.html) from now on. Aside from being actively maintained, it  
is about 5x faster than Maruku and runs on Ruby 1.9 without  
problems.

Aside from the new content processor [kramdown](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/contentprocessor/kramdown.html), another content  
processor for [LESS](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/contentprocessor/less.html) has been added and the content processor  
[head](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/contentprocessor/head.html) has been updated to handle arbitrary `link` tags. Many bugs  
have been fixed in this release as well.

## _Note_: All deprecated methods have been removed in this release! Changes

- Major changes:

- Minor changes:

- Bug fixes:

## What’s webgen?

webgen is a tool to generate static websites by combining content  
with template files. You create one or more template files in which  
you define the layout of your page and where the content should go.  
After that you create page files in which you only define the  
content. You can use a variety of markup languages like Textile or  
Markdown or Haml to define your content and you can add dynamic parts  
via ERB or by using webgen tags. This allows the automatic generation  
of menus, breadcrumb trails and much more!

## Installation

gem install webgen

## Usage

See [http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/](http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/)