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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

Click here to see the unreleased changes.

1.8 - 2024-04-16

Added

• Horizontal space has been added between entry titles and dates in the engineeringresumes theme.
• The date_and_location_width option has been added to the engineeringresumes theme.
• A new design option, disable_external_link_icons, has been added.

Changed

• sb2nov theme's \LaTeX code has been changed completly. There are slight changes in the looks.
• classic, sb2nov, and engineeringresumes use the same \LaTeX code base now.
• The design option show_last_updated_date has been renamed to disable_last_updated_date for consistency.
• Mastodon links now use the original hostnames instead of https://mastodon.social.

Fixed

• The location is now shown in the header (#54).
• The education_degree_width option of the classic theme has been fixed.
• Lualatex and xelatex rendering problems have been fixed (#52).

1.7 - 2024-04-08

Added

• The new theme, engineeringresumes, is ready to be used now.
• The education_degree_width design option has been added for the classic theme.
• last_updated_date_style design option has been added for all the themes except moderncv.

Fixed

• Highlights can now be broken into multiple pages in the classic theme (#47).
• Some JSON Schema bugs have been fixed.

1.6 - 2024-03-31

Added

• A new theme has been added: engineeringresumes. It hasn't been tested fully yet.
• A new text alignment option has been added to classic and sb2nov: justified-with-no-hyphenation (#34)
• Users are now allowed to run local lualatex, xelatex, latexmk commands in addition to pdflatex (#48).

Changed

• Orcid is now displayed in the header like other social media links.

Fixed

• Decoding issues have been fixed (#29).
• Classic theme's ExperienceEntry has been fixed (#49).

1.5 - 2024-03-27

Added

• Users can now make bold or italic texts normal with Markdown syntax.

Changed

• The moderncv theme doesn't italicize any text by default now.

Fixed

• The moderncv theme's PDF title issue has been fixed.
• The ordering of the data models' keys in JSON Schema has been fixed.
• The unhandled exception when a custom theme's __init__.py file is invalid has been fixed.
• The sb2nov theme's PublicationEntry without journal and doi fields is now rendered correctly.
• The sb2nov theme's OneLineEntry's colon issue has been fixed.

1.4 - 2024-03-10

Added

• A new entry type has been added: BulletEntry

Changed

• OneLineEntry's name field has been changed to label. This was required to generalize the entry validations.
• moderncv's highlights are now bullet points.
• moderncv's TextEntries don't have bullet points anymore.
• sb2nov's TextEntries don't have bullet points anymore.

1.3 - 2024-03-09

Added

• CLI documentation has been added to the user guide.

Changed

• Future dates are now allowed.
• Authors' first names are no longer abbreviated in PublicationEntry.
• Markdown is now supported in the authors field of PublicationEntry.
• doi field is now optional for PublicationEntry.

Fixed

• The journal is now displayed in the PublicationEntry of the sb2nov theme.

1.2 - 2024-02-27

Fixed

• Markdown TextEntry, where all the paragraphs were concatenated into a single paragraph, has been fixed.
• Markdown OneLineEntry, where all the one-line entries were concatenated into a single line, has been fixed.
• The classic theme's PublicationEntry, where blank parentheses were rendered when the journal field was not provided, has been fixed.
• A bug, where an email with special characters caused a LaTeX error, has been fixed.
• Unicode error, when rendercv new is called with a name with special characters, has been fixed.

1.1 - 2024-02-25

Added

• RenderCV is now a \LaTeX CV framework. Users can move their \LaTeX CV themes to RenderCV to produce their CV from RenderCV's YAML input.
• RenderCV now generates Markdown and HTML versions of the CV to allow users to paste the content of the CV to another software (like Grammarly) for spell checking.
• A new theme has been added: moderncv.
• A new theme has been added: sb2nov.

Changed

• The data model has been changed to be more flexible. All the sections are now under the sections field. All the keys are arbitrary and rendered as section titles. The entry types can be any of the six built-in entry types, and they will be detected by RenderCV for each section.
• The templating system has been changed completely.
• The command-line interface (CLI) has been improved.
• The validation error messages have been improved.
• TinyTeX has been moved to another repository, and it is being pulled as a Git submodule. It is still pushed to PyPI, but it's not a part of the repository anymore.
• Tests have been improved, and it uses pytest instead of unittest.
• The documentation has been rewritten.
• The reference has been rewritten.
• The build system has been changed from setuptools to hatchling.

0.10 - 2023-11-29

Fixed

• Author highlighting issue has been fixed in PublicationEntry.

0.9 - 2023-11-29

Added

• Page numbering has been added.
• Text alignment options have been added (left-aligned or justified).
• Header options have been added (margins and header font size).
• university_projects field has been added.

0.8 - 2023-11-17

Fixed

• YYYY date issue has been solved (#5).

0.7 - 2023-11-03

Changed

• The date type has been improved. It supports YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM, and YYYY formats now.

Fixed

• Custom sections' error messages have been fixed.

0.6 - 2023-10-28

Added

• New fields have been added: experience, projects, awards, interests, and programming_skills.

Fixed

• DOI validation bug has been fixed by @LabAsim in #3/

0.5 - 2023-10-27

Added

• Orcid support has been added.

Fixed

• Special \LaTeX characters' escaping has been fixed.

0.4 - 2023-10-22

Changed

• CLI has been improved for more intuitive validation error messages.

0.3 - 2023-10-20

Fixed

• The colors of CLI output have been fixed.
• Encoding problems have been fixed.

0.2 - 2023-10-17

Fixed

• MacOS compatibility issues have been fixed.

0.1 - 2023-10-15

The first release of RenderCV.