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+# Major changes
+
+## New Jekyll
+
+Octopress is leaving [Henrik's stale fork of jekyll](https://github.com/henrik/jekyll) for [Mojombo's official Jekyll](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll). Why? Back when Henrik's Jekyll fork was current, it offered some nice features
+like the option to use Haml and ruby instead of html and the liquid templating system. Switching from henrik-jekyll to jekyll, means Octopress will no longer support Haml layouts (until Jekyll does), but after using Octopress
+for a year and a half, I can see that it's far better for Octopress to be able to take advantage of the jekyll's active development, than to hold out for full Haml support.
+
+### Jekyll is Pluggable
+
+Some new features make the transition worth it. You can write your own [plugins](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Plugins) which consist of generators, converters, and liquid tags.
+Now it's much easier to hack Jekyll without forking. I expect to see some great plugins emerge from the Jekyll community, and I'll be adding my favorites into Octopress.
+
+
+## More Than a Starting Point
+
+I initially saw Octopress as the fastest way to get started with a fairly nice Jekyll blog, but now that Jekyll is so hackable, I'm hoping that Octopress will also become a great introduction to hacking Jekyll and a place to find great plugins from the community.
+
+I've already been combing through plugins that other people are writing and I've found some gems. Octopress now has:
+
+- **Sitemap generator** - suitable xml for submitting to search engines
+- **Haml converter** - currently pages and posts can be converted, but not layouts
+- **Liquid tag Github gists** - embeds gists in a noscript tag for RSS readers and crawlers, then uses Github's javascript to display gists to site visitors
+
+Octopress also has custom filters which work through Liquid's filtering system. I've added these for now:
+
+- **Smart quotes** for posts and pages
+- **Title case** an adaptation of John Gruber's intelligent title capitalization script
+- **Absolute urls** using '/' as a url opener for relative paths gets converted to an absolute url for RSS readers
+- **Ordinal dates** dates are output like "October 5th" or "July 3rd"
+
+Of course Octopress still supports simple setup for Twitter, Disqus Comments, Google Custom Search, Google Analytics, Delicious Bookmarks, and now Pinboard Bookmarks.
+
+## Upgrading
+
+Unfortunately upgrading isn't as smooth as I would like. Some things have changed that require a bit of fiddling on your part. It's less than ideal, but if you were adverse to fiddling, you'd be using Wordpress right?
+
+#### Update configs
+I've moved configurations out of layouts and into the _config.yml. This means settings like title, url, and twitter_user can be accessed on the site object, eg. site.title, site.twitter_user.
+
+#### Post dates
+Before you could add date and time to the post filename, but for some reason Jekyll is more strict and won't see posts with that format. If you had a post `2009-11-13_14-23-hello-world` it should be renamed to `2009-11-13-hello-world`, leaving out the time-stamp.
+If you want to keep the time-stamp data, you can now add dates to the post in the yaml front-matter, eg. `date: 2009-11-13 14:23`. It seems that you can also use parseable strings like November 13, 2009 2:23pm and Jekyll will generate the proper url and post metadata.
+
+I've updated the new post rake task `rake post[title for your new post]` to correctly name new posts, and to automatically insert the time-stamp into the yaml front-matter for a new post. This way you can set the time when you want to publish without having to write out the whole post date.
+
+
+
+Here are some steps you can take to get your blog running again on this update:
+
+1.