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• 07.04.2012

  Version 6.2

  A lot of things happened in highlight.js since the last version! We've got nine new contributors, the discussion group came alive, and the main branch on GitHub now counts more than 350 followers. Here are most significant results coming from all this activity:

  • 5 (five!) new languages: Rust, ActionScript, CoffeeScript, MatLab and experimental support for markdown. Thanks go to Andrey Vlasovskikh, Alexander Myadzel, Dmytrii Nagirniak, Oleg Efimov, Denis Bardadym and John Crepezzi.
  • 2 new style themes: Monokai by Luigi Maselli and stylistic imitation of another well-known highlighter Google Code Prettify by Aahan Krish.
  • A vast number of correctness fixes and code refactorings, mostly made by Oleg Efimov and Evgeny Stepanischev.

• 23.09.2011

  Version 6.1 — Solarized

  Jeremy Hull has implemented my dream feature — a port of Solarized style theme famous for being based on the intricate color theory to achieve correct contrast and color perception. It is now available for highlight.js in both variants — light and dark.

  This version also adds a new original style Arta. Its author pumbur maintains a heavily modified fork of highlight.js on GitHub.

• 21.05.2011

  Version 6.0

  New major version of the highlighter has been built on a significantly refactored syntax. Due to this it's even smaller than the previous one while supporting more languages!

  New languages are:

  • Haskell by Jeremy Hull
  • Erlang in two varieties — module and REPL — made collectively by Nikolay Zakharov, Dmitry Kovega and Sergey Ignatov
  • Objective C by Valerii Hiora
  • Vala by Antono Vasiljev
  • Go by Stephan Kountso

  Also this version is marginally faster and fixes a number of small long-standing bugs.

  Developer overview of the new language syntax is available in a blog post about recent beta release.

  P.S. New version is not yet available on a Yandex' CDN, so for now you have to download your own copy.

• 13.10.2010

  Version 5.14

  Fixed bugs in HTML/XML detection and relevance introduced in previous refactoring.

  Also test.html now shows the second best result of language detection by relevance.

• 05.10.2010

  Version 5.13

  Past weekend began with a couple of simple additions for existing languages but ended up in a big code refactoring bringing along nice improvements for language developers.

  For users

  • Description of C++ has got new keywords from the upcoming C++ 0x standard.
  • Description of HTML has got new tags from HTML 5.
  • CSS-styles have been unified to use consistent padding and also have lost pop-outs with names of detected languages.
  • Igor Kalnitsky has sent two new language descriptions: CMake и VHDL.

  This makes total number of languages supported by highlight.js to reach 35.

  Bug fixes:

  • Custom classes on <pre> tags are not being overridden anymore
  • More correct highlighting of code blocks inside non-<pre> containers: highlighter now doesn't insist on replacing them with its own container and just replaces the contents.
  • Small fixes in browser compatibility and heuristics.

  For developers

  The most significant change is the ability to include language submodes right under contains instead of defining explicit named submodes in the main array:

  contains: [
    'string',
    'number',
    {begin: '\\n', end: hljs.IMMEDIATE_RE}
  ]
  

  This is useful for auxiliary modes needed only in one place to define parsing. Note that such modes often don't have className and hence won't generate a separate <span> in the resulting markup. This is similar in effect to noMarkup: true. All existing languages have been refactored accordingly.

  Test file test.html has at last become a real test. Now it not only puts the detected language name under the code snippet but also tests if it matches the expected one. Test summary is displayed right above all language snippets.