Reasons to upgrade Hugo to version 0.96

My main reason to upgrade Hugo (from version 0.81) to version 0.96 was the language support for dates. This means that I no longer need complex lookups to get a language specific date display. I can now simply set the following things in my config file:

defaultContentLanguage: nl
languageCode: nl_NL

This allows me to output a language specific date using: {{ .Date | time.Format ":date_long" }}. Which results in a Dutch date like this: ‘2 april 2022’. Great, right?

Other reasons to upgrade are:

• every newer version of Go makes Hugo a little bit faster and/or less memory intensive
• bug fixes
• more bug fixes ;-)

More info can be found in the release history.