Bug fixes

• hugolib: Fix Page.GitInfo for modules with go.mod in a repo subdirectory df542191 @bep #14942
• Fix typo in CONTRIBUTING.md 4bc7caea @bep
• resources: Fix the :counter placeholder 5d51b82a @jmooring #14921
• commands: Fix import from Jekyll 81d77620 @jmooring #14795 #14906
• Fix prevention of direct symlink reads in resources.Get f8b5fa09 @bep
• commands: Fix github-dark chromastyles 88d838a9 @xndvaz #14831

Improvements

• Disallow HTML content by default e41a0644 @bep
• Add image processing support for AVIF 90d9f812 @bep #7837
• config: Preserve intentionally empty maps 80e60847 @jmooring #14944
• hugolib: Merge existing hugo_stats.json when renderSegments is set aeb9a5cc @bep #14939
• all: Replace RWMutex struct caches with ConcurrentMap c4bbc280 @bep
• tpl/tplimpl: Consolidate and improve embedded template integration tests d8c70218 @jmooring #14932
• parser: Drop empty sub maps from hugo config output ee4f1acd @bep #14855
• markup/highlight: Allow overriding type and code via options b6133657 @bep #11872
• Update AI assistance disclosure requirements d2c821b5 @bep
• hugolib: Use AllTranslated in IsTranslated 4ed7600f @bep
• tpl: Simplify sitemap template cbe4339a @bep #14912
• tpl: Use AllTranslations in sitemap template 6475d308 @bep #14912 #14917
• tpl/collections: Make dict return nil when no values are provided 67aede43 @bep
• Sync Go template package to 1.26.3 87f194b2 @bep #14897
• Upgrade to Go 1.26.3 d81e3c29 @bep #14897
• ci: Check embedded template formatting with gotmplfmt 7c65a4db @bep
• tpl: Run gotmplfmt -w . d31a9275 @bep
• markup/goldmark/codeblocks: Always split Chroma options into .Options c36608c5 @jmooring #14909
• hugolib: Allow empty params front matter 2f361a8e @xndvaz #14886
• common/hmaps: Merge slice-valued module config into site config 55592633 @jmooring #13869
• tpl: Use GetMatch for both local and global image resources 656fc040 @bep #14062
• Revert "markup/tableofcontents: Skip empty TOC levels" a20cb5b1 @bep #14898
• tpl/templates: Reject Defer inside partialCached 4d775cbe @bep #13492
• common/hexec: Make NODE_PATH a fallback for ESM bare imports ae7bf74b @bep #13987
• config: Allow repeating the root key in /config files ba5d8126 @bep #12899 #14882
• Revise test naming guidelines in AGENTS.md be4a0df3 @bep
• Update AGENTS.md e4cf565c @bep
• js: Return error for missing batch imports 9e649533 @xndvaz #13737
• resources/images: Keep smart crop target size f0cfc28c @xndvaz #13688
• testing: Use synctest where relevant 16e854a4 @bep
• security: Validate redirects against security.http.urls 86fbb0f7 @bep #14871
• markup/tableofcontents: Skip empty TOC levels 7d4af7a1 @xndvaz #7128
• Fall back to hugo.buildDate in hugo.BuildDate() in non-vcs builds 28147cb0 @bep #14862
• css: Make css.Build's file-loader URLs absolute to web context root e51e761d @bep #14849
• hugolib: Don't warn about lang/kind/path coming from cascade.params 70112392 @bep #14848
• markup/goldmark: Unwrap inner HTML for plain code blocks 694906f6 @cyphercodes #14820
• tpl/tplimpl: Extend page image lookup to include global resources d27b9c06 @ogulcanaydogan #14062
• security: Allow hostnames starting with digits in default http.urls 62cef367 @bep #14837
• commands: Improve description of command flags ff22c62a @jmooring #14817

Dependency Updates

• build(deps): bump golang.org/x/net from 0.54.0 to 0.55.0 4f444c81 @dependabot[bot]
• build(deps): bump golang.org/x/image from 0.40.0 to 0.41.0 fe6c7265 @dependabot[bot]
• build(deps): bump github.com/getkin/kin-openapi from 0.137.0 to 0.138.0 6a2a0380 @dependabot[bot]
• build(deps): bump github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown/v2 cf1de598 @dependabot[bot]
• build(deps): bump golang.org/x/image from 0.39.0 to 0.40.0 97f990cc @dependabot[bot]
• build(deps): bump golang.org/x/tools from 0.44.0 to 0.45.0 b99634e2 @dependabot[bot]
• build(deps): bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3 fdd977e9 @dependabot[bot]
• build(deps): bump github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2 from 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 123018de @dependabot[bot]
• deps: Upgrade to Chroma v2.24.1 b88fa8cc @bep #14839

Documentation

• docs: Update docs.yaml 1e4037ca @jmooring