0.5.0

[Abbe98]

Snowman 0.5.0 ⛄

This release is the fifth non-experimental release of Snowman, a static site generator for SPARQL backends. This release is a rather small one given our release history but it brings you a new --conflig build parameter as well as two important bugs fix next to various changes to the documentation.

Features and changes 🎈

There are no breaking changes in this release.

Here are some of the most notable changes:

CLI 🛠

• A new --config parameter for the build which allows you to points to other configuration files than the default snowman.yaml.

Documentation 📄

• Added documentation for Go's built in print template function
• Removed an obsolete note about functions not understanding RDF terms
• Added documentation for the view option unsafe. Thank you @mzeinstra! ⭐

Template functions 🛠

• Added int which casts values to integers.

Bug fixes 🪲

• Fixed a bug causing site files from previous build runs not to clear
• Fixed a bug causing the query template function to incorrectly inject parameters if called with more than one has been fixed. Issuing a parameterized query with more than 1 argument fails #68 Thank you @LvanWissen! ⭐

Known issues

• Snowman 0.4.0 appears to have introduced a dependency on LibC, this is not intended. If you are affected, either install a matching LibC version or build Snowman from source on your target platform. snowman-linux-amd64 0.4.0 binary won't run on Ubuntu 20.04 #72

Installing Snowman 🌨

Download the binary for your OS/architecture, rename it to "snowman", and place it in a directory on your path. Alternatively, place it in your project folder and execute it with the ./ prefix.

We provide binaries for six architectures/operation systems, if none of these are suitable for you, you can build it from source. If you think we should provide pre-built binaries for additional platforms, consider raising an issue.

Roadmap and Snowman 0.6.0 🗺

Let us know what we should include in Snowman 0.6.0 either by raising an issue or opening a discussion.

Discuss 💬

You can discuss this release or other aspects of Snowman in the forum.

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