Kida 0.5.0

Released 2026-04-12.

Kida 0.5.0 is a minor release adding thetojson(attr=true) attribute mode, the plain()t-string tag, Milo integration, GitHub App token support, and compile-time performance improvements.

Added

• tojson attribute mode — {{ value | tojson(attr=true) }}HTML-entity-encodes JSON for safe use in double-quoted HTML attributes (e.g. Alpinex-data). Default tojsonbehavior is unchanged for<script>tags and JSON-in-script contexts. (#81)
• plain() t-string tag — New plain(t"...")tag for t-string inline templates that renders without HTML escaping. (#84)
• Kida x Milo integration — Saga benchmarks, terminal tutorial, and vision rewrite for the Milo integration layer. (#85)
• GitHub App token support — Branded PR comments now support GitHub App tokens for authentication. (#83)

Fixed

• Partial evaluator preserves loop var bindings — Unrolledfor-loops no longer lose loop variable bindings when the partial evaluator inlines the loop body. (#78, #79)

Changed

• Performance — Cachestr.joinas local variable and enable built-in pure filter folding for faster template compilation. (#80)
• Dispatch-dict compiler refactor — Expression compilation in_compile_exprnow uses a dispatch dictionary instead of if/elif chains. (#87)
• Documentation audit — Comprehensive accuracy, IA, and completeness pass across all docs. (#86)
• CI dependency bumps — Updatedactions/upload-artifact to v7, actions/setup-pythonto v6, andactions/download-artifactto v8.

Upgrade Notes

1. No breaking changes. Drop-in upgrade from 0.4.x.
2. GitHub Action version tag updated to@v0.5.0.

Links

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