blade/CHANGES.log

Blade - HTML Template Compiler, inspired by Jade & Haml

This changelog is intentionally incomplete. For further details about changes
made to Blade, please review the Git commit logs.

Blade was born on May 3, 2012.

- Version 3.0 (March 12, 2013)
	- Significantly improved Meteor support!
		- preserve and constant regions
		- isolates
		- foreach
		- Helpers
		- Events
		- Many, many bugfixes
	- Changed runtime options and APIs on the browser
	- Runtime.loadTemplate can now detect loading errors
	- Live UI plugin has been re-worked significantly and now depends on Spark
	- Tag attributes can now be interpolated (#105)
	- Syntax now exists for unescaped and escaped interpolation
	- Middleware no longer exposes base path information for templates (#122)
	- Multiple doctypes are now permitted (#119)
	- Blank lines are now permitted anywhere (#81, #149)
	- Blade middleware is compatible with node-static-asset
	- Blade chunks are now removed
	- Updated to use UglifyJS 2
	- Numerous bugfixes (will not list them all here)
	- Updated docs
- Version 2.6 (July 18, 2012)
	- Improved Model class in Live UI plugin
	- Added Model validation
	- Other bugfixes
	- Updated docs
- Version 2.5 (July 17, 2012)
	- Blade runtime and Blade plugins are uglified by the Blade middleware
	- Removed runtime distribution
	- Added support for boolean attributes
	- Support for multiple event handlers
	- Other Bugfixes
	- Updated docs
- Version 2.4 (July 17, 2012)
	- Significantly improved Live UI plugin
	- Added initial element preservation support for Live UI
	- Extra runtime has been merged into the Live UI plugin
	- Enhanced error reporting and bugfixes
	- Improved runtime.loadTemplate function
	- Many bugfixes
	- Updated docs
- Version 2.3 (July 10, 2012)
	- Improvements to Live UI plugin
	- Plugin bugfixes
	- Minor optimizations
	- Other bugfixes
	- Updated docs
- Version 2.2 (July 6, 2012)
	This version was a bit buggy.  Version 2.3 fixes many of these bugs.
	- Added plugins: Live UI, Extra runtime helper functions, and defineProperty IE8
	- Blade middleware can now serve up Blade plugins
	- Updated some documentation
- Version 2.1 (July 6, 2012)
	- Added support for event handlers
	- Improved test suite
	- Minor optimizations
	- Updated docs
- Version 2.0 (June 28, 2012)
	- File includes now happen synchronously
	- File includes are now supported in blocks, functions, or chunks
	- File includes now support "exposing" keyword
	- Improved Blade middleware (including new `runtimeMount` property)
	- Removed `clientNamespace` and `clientCache` options from Blade middleware
	- Migrated postinstall script from Bash to JavaScript
	- Improved test suite
	- Bugfixes (including Node 0.8 compatibility)
	- Updated docs
- Version 1.4 (June 13, 2012)
	- Added support for c-style block comments to comment out Blade code
	- Removed lib/inline-tags.js
	- Fixed a lot of Meteor-related bugs
	- Parsing tag attribute values is much more stable now
	- Improved test suite
	- Bugfixes
	- Updated docs
- Version 1.3 (June 2, 2012)
	- Improved text filters
	- Improved error reporting
	- Improved test suite
	- Significantly improved Meteor smart package and documentation
	- Bugfixes
	- Updated docs
- Version 1.2 (May 25, 2012)
	- New `render` behaviors
	- Can now replace blocks with a parameterized block
	- Updated docs
	- Bugfixes
- Version 1.1 (May 20, 2012)
	- Minor speed improvements
	- Added benchmarks
	- Added chunk statement
	- Added Meteor smart package
	- Better file include support
	- New/updated compiler options
	- Bugfixes
- Version 1.0 (May 18, 2012)
	- Version 0.12.5 becomes version 1.0
	- Added Easter Eggs
	- Added support for escaping Blade keywords
	- Improved command-line tool
	- Improved error handling
	- Improved test suite
	- Bugfixes
- Version 0.12 (May 16, 2012)
	- Added command-line tool
	- Improved client-side API
	- Improved test suite
	- Bugfixes
- Version 0.11 (May 14, 2012)
	- Better file include support for client-side templates
	- More compiler options
	- Bugfixes
- Version 0.10 (May 10, 2012)
	- Massive compiler and runtime re-work to support blocks and file includes
	- Better error reporting
	- More compiler options
	- Lots of bugfixes
	- Improved test suite
	- Can now add class/id attributes to function output
	- Updated docs
- Version 0.9 (May 8, 2012)
	- Added Blade middleware
	- Added runtime distibution for browsers
	- Updated docs
- Version 0.8
	- Variable interpolation in text blocks now works
	- Added a test suite
	- Cleaned up some stuff
	- Updated documentation quite a bit
- Version 0.7
	- Functions now work
	- Ability to include a variable filename
- Version 0.6 (May 8, 2012)
	- Fixed some error handling and reporting
	- Fixed a lot of bugs (especially when parsing tag attributes)
- Version 0.5 (May 6, 2012)
	- First version of Blade released!
	- Most of the syntax has been implemented!
	- 0.5 actually worked quite well, but there were still a lot of features missing.
- Version 0.0.0 (May 3, 2012)
	- Started writing the README file