---
layout: news_item
title: 'Jekyll turns 3.2'
date: 2016-07-26 15:06:49 -0700
author: parkr
version: 3.2.0
categories: [release]
---

Happy Day! Jekyll v3.2.0 is out, and packed full of goodies.

Our flagship feature for this release has been **themes**. _Themes?!_, you
say? Yes, proper, versionable, releasable, first-class themes. We're pretty
stoked about it and we hope you like building and using them. For now, it
only supports layouts, includes, and sass, but we have plans to include
static assets like images and CSS/JS in a future release. [Read more about
it in the docs.](/docs/themes/) Our site template generated by `jekyll new`
now dogfoods this feature, using the [minima](https://github.com/jekyll/minima) theme.

Some other notable changes:

- Symlinks are allowed as long as they target a file in the site source
- Explicit support for Ruby 2.0.x was dropped
- Added an `:after_init` Hook
- Added a `where_exp` filter to provide more powerful filtering
- Added a `link` liquid tag which can be used to generate URL's for any
post or document based on its path relative to the site source
- ... and lots more!

As always, there is [a full list of changes](/docs/history/#v3-2-0) for
your perusal.

Every release is made possible by the countless hours of hard work that our
fellow community members put into sending patches, filing thoughtful
patches, and so on. These release took the work of over 80 people:

- Aaron Sky
- Adam Hollett
- ajhit406
- Aki
- Alex Hanselka
- Alex Hoyau
- Alex Ivkin
- Alex Kitchens
- Alex Plescan
- Alex Wood
- Anatoliy Yastreb
- Andrew Artajos
- Andrew Munsell
- AndrewCz
- Ankush Menat
- Anthony Smith
- Ben Balter
- Brian Jones
- Brint O'Hearn
- Chayoung You
- Chris Wells
- chrisfinazzo
- Clark Winkelmann
- Dan Allen
- David Von Lehman
- David Zhang
- Derek Gottlieb
- Enes Gönültaş
- EricH
- Erick Sasse
- Eugênio Cabral
- Florian Thomas
- Frank Taillandier
- Henry Goodman
- Henry Wright
- Hugo Duksis
- Hugo Giraudel
- Jack Reed
- Jamie Bilinski
- Jeff Kolesky
- Jens Willmer
- Jordon Bedwell
- Josh Waller
- Joshua Barnett
- Keegan Mullaney
- Kevin Miller
- Krzysztof Jurewicz
- Loren Rogers
- Marcos Brito
- Marcus Stollsteimer
- Matt Rogers
- Michaël Guitton
- Mike Linksvayer
- Mike Neumegen
- Nathan Hazout
- Nick
- No
- nscyclone
- Parker Moore
- Pat Hawks
- Pierre Fenoll
- Praveen Kumar
- Rares Vernica
- Saleem Rashid
- Sam Dutton
- Shengbin Meng
- Shinn Kondo
- Shinnosuke Kondo
- skim
- Sondre Nilsen
- Spencer A. Bywater
- Stephen Checkoway
- Suriyaa Kudo
- surrim
- TheLucasMoore
- Thomas Wood
- Tim Wisniewski
- Tom Fejfar
- Tony Garnock-Jones
- Vincent Wochnik
- XhmikosR
- Yanis Vieilly
- Yordis Prieto
- Zack Spencer

We are so grateful to all of you for helping to put together a terrific
release. Thank you!

Happy Jekylling!
