Soupault 4.9.0 release

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Date: 2024-03-20

Soupault 4.9.0 is available for download from my own server and from GitHub releases. It is a small release that includes Lua plugin API for cryprographic hash functions (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256/512, and BLAKE2), a couple of function aliases, and a new hook that runs before any pages are processed.

New features and improvements

New startup hook that runs before soupault processes any pages and can modify the global_data variable.

New plugin API functions

New Digest module offers functions for calculating cryptographic hash sums of strings. All those functions return hex digests.

Digest.md5(str)
Digest.sha1(str)
Digest.sha256(str)
Digest.sha512(str)
Digest.blake2s(str)
Digest.blake2b(str)

Other new functions:

Sys.basename_url(str) and Sys.dirname_url(str) — aliases for Sys.basename_unix and Sys.dirname_unix, respectively.