Glad to see Jekyll development resume -- bravo! For those who prefer Python over Ruby, be sure to check out Pelican, version 3.2 of which was recently released. Bountiful themes, plugins, and a very active community: http://getpelican.com/

It would be lovely if, on these announcement posts, there was a one-sentence blurb that said what the product actually is.

I love using Jekyll to generate my blog, and I host it in an S3 bucket making it extremely cheap and easy to serve.

Lately I've been wanting to revive all of my old digital photos and put them online. I'm considering using Jekyll to make an online gallery of photo albums hosted on S3 as well. This might turn into my next side-project. Has someone done something like this before?

Jekyll's all well and good but after a lot of deliberation I settled on Nanoc[1]. Most of the static generators seem much of a muchness, at one point I was almost ready to roll my own in python with Jinja2.

[1] - http://nanoc.ws/

Awesome!

Any idea when GitHub Pages will start using 1.0 (or are they using it already?). Really want to start using that gist tag ASAP (copy-pasting the <script> embeds is a bit of a pain).

This is great news :) I generate my own personal site with Jekyll, but I'll also have to update my tutorial (http://learn.andrewmunsell.com/learn/jekyll-by-example) with some of the new stuff... The scaffolding command will definitely be great to get new users started.

The new site looks much better, too! There's definitely a lot more, useful documentation.

I'm a huge fan of Jekyll. Two things I'd love to see pop out from the community:

1) Online Editor. I know there is Prose.io, but it requires me to host on GH pages. I like hosting on S3. parkr, I'm guessing Cornell is using some sort of backend to edit posts/pages?

2) An iPhone app that allows me to upload photos or write posts.

Strangely Middleman wasn't mentioned here as a alternative yet, so I'll do it: http://middlemanapp.com/

With its 'blog'-gem nex Jekyll features like excerpts and support for timezone-config have been implemented for a while.

As someone currently, as in, right at this moment, converting their blog to Jekyll/Octopress. Is there any reason not to simply use Octopress?

From my research over the past couple of weeks, it seems like Octopress is basically Jekyll with a bunch of plugins and niceties.

How will this affect octopress?

How do you guys generally setup commenting feature with Jekyll? Do you use an external commenting service or is Jekyll able to handle it alone? (maybe through plugins?)

I know Jekyll is in the domine of static website generators, but it also says it's "blog aware" so...

I'm following the master branch and have been using some of the new features in some of my sites. There has been a lot of work to try and modularize Jekyll. Great job Parker, Tom, et al. Hopefully I will find some time to contribue.

In all of the Jekyll vs. X comments below, I think an important selling point of Jekyll is being missed:

It is built-in to Github Pages

This saves you the trouble of re-generating the site on your local machine and pushing it to a host.

As a newbie just learning ruby/html, can someone explain to me how would Jekyll help me build a small static website for a small company? how does it differ from bootstrap?

Great job!

I haven't used Jekyll in quite some time, but just reading about an update makes me want to take another look.

Side note: the link to the Cornell website is missing the "u" at the end.

I as well love jekyll. I wonder if it can stay in step with the hopes of the node Ghost project?

I can only assume that Jekyll is only targeted at people who already know what it is/does, because I read everything visible on that page before the break, and have no idea what it is. Oh wait, there are hints about it being about "blogging" and "posts" and "tags" in the feature list.

What do you guys do for pushing blog updates to Twitter? An RSS crawler?

The new website looks slick !!