Bengal 0.2.3

Key additions: Major blog template refresh for the default theme (post cards, related posts, author bio, social share), newexcerpt_for_card and card_excerptfilters for preview deduplication, and pre-commit migration to prek.toml.

Highlights

Default Theme Blog Improvements

The blog scaffold and default theme templates received a significant refresh:

• Post cards: New post cards with improved layout and excerpt handling
• Related posts: Related post cards and simple layout variants
• Author bio: Author bio component with avatar support
• Social share: Share dropdown with Reddit, email, and copy-link
• Contact & About: Dedicated contact and about pages for blog scaffold
• Newsletter CTA: Placeholder for newsletter signup
• Comments section: Placeholder for comments integration
• Recipe: Blog-comments theming recipe for customization

Excerpt Filters for Card Previews

New template filters avoid repeating title/description in card excerpts:

• excerpt_for_card(title, desc): Deduplicates content against title/description for card previews
• card_excerpt(words, title, desc): Trims excerpt to word count while avoiding title/desc repetition

Documented in the reference and cheatsheet.

Tooling

• Prek migration: Pre-commit config moved from.pre-commit-config.yaml to prek.toml
• Ruff 0.15.1: Upgrade with format fixes
• Filter-type-coercion: New rule for YAML numeric param handling in template filters

Other Changes

• Fix: Correct Python 3 except syntax for multi-exception handling
• Cache: Remove unused TypeVar after PEP 695 migration
• CLI help: Troubleshooting cleanup
• Tests:parallel_unsafemarker for ThreadPoolExecutor tests; stress tests marked slow for faster CI

Breaking Changes

None. Fully backward-compatible release.

Upgrading

uv pip install --upgrade bengal
# or
pip install --upgrade bengal
# or use the self-update command
bengal upgrade