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title: kramdown 1.9.0 released
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created_at: 2015-10-01 21:30:00 +02:00
modified_at: 2015-10-01 21:30:00 +02:00
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## kramdown 1.9.0 released

This release contains some minor updates and bug fixes.


## Changes

* 3 minor changes:

  - The Rouge syntax highlighter can now be enabled/disabled for spans and/or blocks and options can
    now be set for both spans and blocks as well as only for spans or only for blocks (fixes [#286],
    requested by Raphael R.)
  - Setting the 'footnote_backlink' option to an empty string now completely suppresses footnotes
    (fixes [#270], requested by Kyle Barbour)
  - New converter HashAST for creating a hash from the internal tree structure (fixes [#275], pull
    request by Hector Correa)

* 1 bug fix:

  - When using the 'hard_wrap' option for the GFM parser, line numbers were lost (fixes [#274], pull
    request by Marek Tuchowski)

[#286]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/286
[#270]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/270
[#275]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/275
[#274]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/274
