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COMPASS CHANGELOG

Upgrading compass is pretty easy. Don't let all these details scare you...

The Documentation for the latest stable release:

The Documentation for the latest preview release

0.11.beta.7 (UNRELEASED)

• Added support for the new webkit gradient syntax that matches the css3 specification. Support for older webkit browsers remains enabled at this time. To disable it, set $support-for-original-webkit-gradients to false.
• There is a new mixin for creating pure-css grid backgrounds for verifying grid alignment for both fixed and fluid grids.

0.11.beta.6 (04/10/2011)

• Added support for degree-based linear and radial gradients (not yet supported for SVG gradients)
• Added opera prefix support for linear and radial gradients.
• The CSS3 background mixin's "simple" background that came before the prefixed versions has been removed. If you need to target css2 background it is recommended that you set a the background property before calling the background mixin or you can call the background-with-css2-fallback if you want keep using compass's automatic simplification of the arguments.
• Bug fixes
• Fixed and issue with the compass gemspec in rubygems 1.7
• Fixed a bug with sprite imports

0.11.beta.5 (03/27/2011)

Compass Sprites

Magic Selectors have been added

Fixed a bug causing a stack level too deep in ruby 1.8.7

0.11.beta.4 (03/25/2011)

• Extensions that are installed into ~/.compass/extensions will be automatically available to all your compass projects.

Compass Internals

• Fixed a small bug in callbacks that was causing them to register twice
• The Sprite classes have been abstracted allowing for different engines
• Bumped chunky_png version to 1.1.0
• Total rewrite of the sprite generation classes - thanks to @johnbintz for the help
• More Rspec tests

0.11.beta.3 (03/15/2011)

Compass CSS3

• A new CSS3 mixin for appearance was added.
• The font-face mixin has been updated again with the syntax recommendations from font-spring. The API has not changed.

Compass Typography

• Some text-based mixins have been moved from utilities to the new typography module. The old imports are deprecated now. Affected modules: utilities/links, utilities/lists, and utilities/text and their sub-modules.
• There is a new typography module: Vertical Rhythm. This makes it easier to align the typography of your page to a common rhythm.

Compass Utilities

• A new mixin reset-float is available in the float module that makes it easier to reset the floats introduced from that module.
• A new mixin reset-float is available in the float module that makes it easier to reset the floats introduced from that module.
• A new module has been added to create readable text against an arbitrary background color based on the lightness of the background: compass/utilities/color/contrast.
• The comma-delimited-list has been renamed to delimited-list and generalized to accept a delimiter which defaults to a comma. The old function continues to exist, but is deprecated.

Compass Internals

• You can now register callbacks for compilation events so that you can take custom actions when they occur. For instance, you might want to notify Growl when a stylesheet compilation error occurs.
• Bug fixes & performance improvements.

0.11.beta.2 (02/01/2011)

• Updated the font-face mixin so it works in Android 2.2. Credit: Paul Irish.
• The deprecated & unused arguments to the font-face mixin have been removed.

0.11.beta.1 (01/17/2011)

• Add an option --skip-overrides to the sprite subcommand. When provided, the default variables for overriding the sprite behavior are not created. Instead, you would change the call to sprite-map() to customize your sprite map.
• Rename the sprite-position mixin in the new sprite/base module to sprite-background-position in order avoid a naming conflict with the old sprite module.

0.11.beta.0 (01/09/2011)

Compass v0.11 is now feature complete. Future changes to this release will be doc improvements, bug fixes, performance tuning, and addressing user feedback.

• Added optional support for IE8 with $legacy-support-for-ie8 which defaults to true.
• Updated the opacity and filter-gradient mixins to make IE's hacky DirectX filters optional based on Compass's legacy support settings.
• Added the ability to piggy back on compass's watcher within your configuration file. See the configuration reference for details.
• The options passed to the CLI can now be inspected within the compass configuration file. The CLI options will still override the values set within the config file, but they might inform other values. For instance compass compile -e production will have the environment parameter preset to :production so that you can set other values in the project accordingly.
• New infrastructure for supporting experimental css3 functions that are prefixed but have the same syntax across all browsers. It is now possible to configure which browsers support which experimental functions outside of the compass release cycle. For details, see the cross browser helpers.
• [Blueprint] Added a new sass function called span($n) to the grid module which replaces the now deprecated span mixin. If you are using this mixin, please replace it with: width: span($n).
• [Blueprint] Blueprint no longer adds !important to the widths of input, textarea, and select form fields, so compass no longer defaults to using !important in those cases. If you were relying on this behavior, you may need to adjust your stylesheets accordingly.

0.11.alpha.4 (12/08/2010)

• Add a --time option to the compile and watch commands. This will print out the time spent compiling each sass file and a total at the end.
• Upgrade FSSM, the internal library that monitors the filesystem events for compass.
• Removed the command line options that were deprecated in v0.10.

0.11.alpha.3 (12/05/2010)

• Fix a bug in compass running under ruby 1.9.2 that was introduced in v0.11.alpha.2.

0.11.alpha.2 (12/05/2010)

• Merge with Lemonade. Compass now provides a full featured spriting solution. See the spriting tutorial for more information.
• Compass now depends on Sass 3.1. You can install the preview release: gem install sass --pre. Note: you must also upgrade your haml gem if you use both in the same application.
• A third argument is now available on the image-url() helper. When true or false, it will enable/disable the cache buster for a single image url. Or when a string, it will be the cache buster used.
• Upgrade CSS3 PIE to 1.0-beta3.
• Bug fixes.

0.11.alpha.1 (11/22/2010)

• Support for Sass 3.1 alpha version
• CSS3 PIE module. Docs.
• The versioned modules in the last release have been removed. There is now just a single module for each and the overloaded mixins will discern deprecated usage and warn accordingly.
• Allow erb processing of non all non-binary filetypes during extension installs.
• Added a background mixin for css3 gradient support in the shorthand style.
• Fix for gradients in opera with bordered elements.
• The multiple-text-shadows and multiple-box-shadows mixins that were present in v0.11.alpha.0 were removed because they were unnecessary. Just use the text-shadow and box-shadow mixins.
• The docs are getting a make-over by Brandon :)

0.11.alpha.0 (11/15/2010)

Note: Compass does not currently support Sass 3.1 alphas.

Deprecations

• Deprecated imports and APIs from v0.10 have been removed.
• Changed defaults for the box-shadow and text-shadow mixins. Previously the horizontal and vertical offset were both 1, which expected a top left light source. They are now set to 0 which assumes a direct light source, a more generic default.
• The linear-gradient and radial-gradient mixins have been deprecated. Instead use the background-image mixin and pass it a gradient function. The deprecation warning will print out the correct call for you to use.
• Passing an argument to the blueprint-scaffolding mixin is not necessary and has been deprecated.
• Some blueprint color defaults now use color functions instead of color arithmetic. This may result in different output for those who have color customizations.

Blueprint

• Updated from blueprint 0.9 to blueprint 1.0
  • Added .info and .alert classes to forms.css [CMM]
  • Fixed numerous bugs in forms, including the fieldset padding bug in IE6-8 [CMM]
  • Fixed specificity problems in typography.css and grid.css [CMM]
  • See Lighthouse for more bug fixes
  • Full blueprint changelog
  • If for some reason you'd like to stay on the older version of blueprint you can run the following command in your project before you upgrade (or after temporarily downgrading): compass unpack blueprint

CSS3 v2.0

Our CSS3 module makes writing CSS3 today almost as easy as it will be when all the browsers officially support the new features. The second version of the compass CSS module brings the API up to date with developments over the past 6 to 9 months of browser changes and more closely matching the most recent CSS specifications. Upgrade guide. Summary of changes.

• Support for multiple box shadows and text shadows
• Support for 2d and 3d transforms
• Opt-in SVG support for gradients in opera and IE9. Set $experimental-support-for-svg : true in your stylesheet to enable it.
• Fixed a radial gradient position bug.
• To generate a simple linear gradient in IE6 & 7, you can now use the filter-gradient mixin.
• New background-image mixin with gradient support and allowing up to 10 images.
• Gradient support for the border-image property.
• Gradient support for list-style-image property.
• Gradient support for the content property.

Helpers

• linear-gradient() & radial-gradient() helpers now intercept standard css functions and parse them into Sass Literals. These work with new vendor helpers (-moz(), -webkit, -o, -ie, and -svg (yes I know svg is not a vendor)) to return specific representations of the linear & radial gradients. The prefixed() function will check a value to see if it has a certain vendor-specific representation.
• New color helpers: adjust-lightness, adjust-saturation, scale-lightness, and scale-saturation make it easier to construct apis that manipulate these color attributes.
• The elements-of-type() helper now returns html5 elements when the display is block and also will return only html5 elements for elements-of-type(html5)
• Compass now provides several helper functions related to trigonometry. There's no practical use, but it's hoped that users will find fun things to do with these for technology demonstrations:
  • sin($number) - Takes the sine of the number.
  • cos($number) - Takes the cosine of the number.
  • tan($number) - Takes the tangent of the number.
  • pi() - Returns the value of π. If you provide a number with units of deg then it will return a unitless number after converting to radians. Otherwise, it assumes the number is a radian length measure and passes the units along to the result.
• ie-hex-str($color) returns a #AARRGGBB formatted color suitable for passing to IE filters.
• A new function if() that allows you to switch on a value without using @if. Usage: if($truth-value, $value-if-true, $value-if-false).
• Compass has added a number of new helper functions for lists that begin with -compass, helpers that begin with -compass should be considered "private" and are not to be used by compass users. Sass 3.1 will have proper list support, these are a work around until that time.

Configuration

• Added a new configuration property to disable sass warnings: disable_warnings

Core Framework

• New layout mixins for absolute positioning: stretch, stretch-x, stretch-y

Rails

• In rails 3, there's no need for an initializer. Instead we use a Railstie.
• We now default to app/stylesheets for sass files and public/stylesheets for css files -- though they can still be changed after installation or on the command line during project initialization.
• Compass is now a gem plugin in a rails environment.
• In a rails3 environment the compass configuration can now be changed without restarting the rails server process.

0.10.7 (UNRELEASED)

• [Command Line] compass config -p -- will now print out the configuration value for that property for the current project
• [CSS3] Bug fix: In webkit, when the last gradient color stop was a percent less than 100%, the intermediate values were being scaled to that value.
• [Command Line] You can now pass --no-line-comments to the Compass command line to disable line comments.
• [Configuration] Make the compass configuration file more self documenting by adding comments for preferred_syntax, output_style, and line_comments.
• Work around IE compatibility issues with the :last-child selector. Commit.
• [Command Line] Only the action is colorized in command line output now.
• [Command Line] Compass Validator has been upgraded and fine-tuned. It is now using the "css3" profile to validate and provides a more consistent UI with other compass commands. To upgrade: gem install compass-validator
• [CSS3] The box-shadow $spread value now defaults to using the browser default instead of 0. Set $default-box-shadow-spread to 0 if you prefer the older behavior. Since the browser is supposed to default to 0, you should see no change except less CSS output.
• [CSS3] The output order of the box-shadow mixin now matches the W3C specification. The color and inset values used to be swapped.

0.10.6 (10/11/2010)

• HTML5 reset includes box-model reset for newer browsers.
• Fix encoding issue for ruby 1.9 users of the font-face mixin.
• Make it easier to disable the asset cache buster: asset_cache_buster :none
• Can now set $padding to false to make the horizontal-list mixin skip the padding properties.
• It is now possible to disable support for legacy IE browsers. See the docs for more information.

0.10.5 (08/29/2010)

• The HTML5 Reset mixin now resets the following new elements: canvas, details, figcaption, hgroup, menu, summary
• A new Utility mixin has been added: inline-block-list.
• Compass projects can now (as was always intended) use paths outside of the project directory for css, images, fonts, etc by configuring those locations using xxx_path instead of xxx_dir. For instance: css_path = "/var/www/docroot/css". It is recommended to set the corresponding http_xxx_path when you do this, for instance: http_stylesheets_path = "/css". On the command line, all absolute urls are treated as paths instead of relative directories so --css-dir /var/www/docroot/css will set css_path. Should both a directory and a path be specified, the path will override the corresponding directory.
• A new command is available that will unpack an extension from the system location into your extensions folder. Run compass help unpack for more information.

0.10.4 (8/08/2010)

• [Rails] Fixed a bug introduced in 0.10.3 that caused rails applications using the old configuration file (config/compass.config) to break.
• [Extensions] Make it easier to create manifest files by allowing template files to be discovered. See the Manifest Declarations section of extensions tutorial for details.
• [Rails] Don't install configuration files when installing extensions.
• [Compass Core] All url helpers now accept a second argument that when true will cause only the path to be emitted. This allows the url helpers to be used with IE filters.

0.10.3 (8/1/2010)

!important

All rails users should run the following command:

compass init rails --prepare

This will update your compass initializer file.

Compass Core

• Add missing clearfix import to horizontal-list.
• Emit less css for inline lists with the same result.
• New helper opposite-position($position) returns the opposite value of a position. Documentation
• Allow horizontal lists to be floated to the right.
• Bugfix for inline-font-files helper.
• +font-face mixin no longer uses $postscript name or $style type variables, in favor of the Paul Irish smiley bulletproof technique. Older declarations will still work, but will not apply the variables and will display a deprecation warning.
• +box-shadow now supports $spread length and $inset declarations.
• The gradient mixins output official w3c declarations along with the -webkit and -moz prefixed versions. The official code is based on the w3c spec and is nearly ideantical to the mozilla version, although it is currently not supported by any browser.
• +opacity no longer uses any prefixed variations, as IE uses filter and all other modern browsers support the official spec or nothing at all.
• Support for specifying horizontal and vertical radii for the shorthand border-radius property.
• The has-layout mixin now uses pixels instead of ems to work around an opera bug.

Blueprint

• Two colors used in typography can now be customized.
• Support for inputs of type email.

Extensions

• Extensions can now create empty directories with the directory directive. Docs.
• It's now easier to load extensions from a configuration file using the load and discover directives.

Rails

As stated above, all rails users should run the following command:

compass init rails . --prepare

This will fix a bug in the rails initializer that caused compass extensions to not be recognized when placed into the vendor/plugins/compass_extensions directory. It will also make sure that future bugs in the boot process won't require an end-user action to fix.

Contributors:

• Milo Winningham
• jonathanpberger
• Stephan Kaag

0.10.2 (May 31, 2010)

This is a bug fix release. Details on Github.

0.10.1 (May 15, 2010)

• Fixed a regression in the Blueprint module, the blueprint reset was no longer automatically applying the reset styles. This behavior is restored in this release. If you @import blueprint/reset and then apply the reset mixin yourself, you should remove the mixin call or change your import to blueprint/reset/utilities.
• Added a subcommand for emitting sass imports for the sass CLI.
• Added a subcommand for listing the available frameworks.
• Fixed a number of bugs related to Sass & Rails integration
• Fixed some documentation issues in the command line and on the website.

0.10.0 (May 10, 2010)

This changelog entry is condensed from a very long beta release. You can read the 0.10.0 beta release notes here.

Gem Location

The compass gem is now (and has been for some time) hosted on rubygems.org. If you have an old version installed from github, please remove it:

sudo gem uninstall chriseppstein-compass

Sass 3:

• Compass now depends on Sass 3 -- Please be prepared to upgrade. Things won't break but you'll have a lot of deprecation warnings. Upgrading is pretty easy thanks to the sass-convert tool. See the Sass Changelog for more information.
• All compass stylesheets are now written in the SCSS syntax, if you import compass framework stylesheets with an explicit .sass extension, then you'll receive deprecation warnings directing you to update your stylesheets.
• A new command line switch --syntax (or -x) has been added to commands that install stylesheets into your project that allows you to select the syntax to use (scss or sass)
• A new configuration option preferred_syntax now exists and defaults to :scss. Please update your project's configuration file with preferred_syntax = :sass if you prefer to use the indentation-based syntax.
• You may silence deprecation warnings by adding sass_options = {:quiet => true} to your configuration.

Command-Line:

• The compass command-line tool has been re-written to allow be easier to use and be more flexible. The old command line is still supported at this time. "compass help" will get you started on using the new command line syntax.
• Allow specification of a height for the grid image
• For the truly hardcore compass users, you may now create a compass project using "compass create my_project --bare" and you'll have a completely bare project created for you with no sass files provided for you.
• Get stats on your compass project with "compass stats". You'll need to install the "css_parser" ruby gem to get stats on your css files.
• Command line switch (--boring) to turn off colorized output.
• Color any output from the Sass::Engine red during compilation.
• If you only want to compile certain files, you can now specify them when invoking compass compile. E.g. compass compile src/foo.sass

Configuration:

• The entire configuration infrastructure has been re-written to make it easier to support the various sources of configuration data (project type, config file, command line, and hard coded defaults)
• Whether to generate relative links to assets is now controlled by a separate boolean configuration flag called relative_assets in the configuration file and --relative-assets on the command line. Setting http_images_path to :relative is deprecated.
• You may now configure the http locations for your project by simply setting http_path for the top level path of the project. You may also set http_images_dir, http_stylesheets_dir, and http_javascripts_dir relative to the http_path instead of setting the absolute http_XXX_path counterparts.
• You may now configure the fonts directory for your project (fonts_dir). By default, for standalone projects, it is the "fonts" subdirectory of your css directory. Rails projects will default to "public/fonts".
• The sass cache location can now be set in the compass config file using the cache_dir property and the cache can be disabled by setting cache = false.
• In your configuration file, setting http_images_path to :relative is deprecated in favor of setting relative_assets to true

Rails:

IMPORTANT: Existing rails projects must change their compass initializer file to:

require 'compass'
rails_root = (defined?(Rails) ? Rails.root : RAILS_ROOT).to_s
Compass.add_project_configuration(File.join(rails_root, "config", "compass.rb"))
Compass.configure_sass_plugin!
Compass.handle_configuration_change!

• The rails template has been updated to use the latest haml and compass versions.
• Compass now supports Rails 3, but asset_host and cache_buster integration is disabled.
• When configuring Sass during initialization, Compass now passes the template locations as an array of tuples instead of as a hash. This preserves ordering in all versions of ruby and ensures that the deprecated imports do not take precedence.

Compass Core:

• A new helper function stylesheet-url(path) can now be used to refer to assets that are relative to the css directory.
• Compass sprite mixins are now more flexible and feature rich.
• Fixed the append-selector function to allow comma-delimited selectors for both arguments instead of just the first
• There is no longer any outline on unstyled links in the :active and :focused states.
• New CSS3 Compatibility Mixins. You can import them all with @import compass/css3.sass Read the [documentation][http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/css3/].
• The import for +inline-block has moved from "compass/utilities/general/inline_block" to "compass/css3/inline-block".
• The import for +opacity has moved from "compass/utilities/general/opacity" to "compass/css3/opacity"
• Note: If you are using the +opacity or +inline-block mixins, you may need to update your imports.
• +min-height, +min-width, and +bang-hack mixins in the compass/utilities/general/min.sass module. (Credit: Adam Stacoviak)
• Split out +hide-text as its own mixin. (Credit: Andrew Vit)
• Support :first-child and :last-child pseudo selectors for +horizontal-list. (Credit: Cody Robbins)
• Added new helper functions: image_width("path/to/image.png") & image_height("path/to/image.png") that return the size in pixels. (Credit: Deepak Jois & Richard Aday)
• The pretty-bullets mixin will now infer the image dimensions by reading the image file if the image dimensions are not provided.
• In addition to installing the binding.xml, the configuration constant $use-mozilla-ellipsis-binding must now be set to true to support any version of mozilla less than 3.6 in the +ellipsis mixin.

Blueprint:

• The useless blueprint "modules" folder will be removed. Please update your blueprint imports by removing the modules folder. Deprecation warnings will be emitted if you use the old imports.
• Blueprint mixins that used to accept a "body selector" argument, are now deprecated, instead you should pass true to them and mix them into the selector of your choice.
• Make the primary blueprint mixins easier to use by allowing them to be nested when passing true as the first argument. The old approach of passing a selector as the first argument is now deprecated in favor of a simple flag to indicate nesting or not.
• Take margins into account in liquid grid. (Credit: Christoffer Eliesen)

YUI:

• YUI was upgraded to 2.7.0
• Yahoo has deprecated the YUI CSS framework, as such YUI has been extracted to a plugin. If you use it, please install it.

Extensions:

• Extensions can now be installed locally by unpacking them into a project's "extensions" directory. Rails projects use "vendor/plugins/compass/extenstions".
• Extensions can deliver html to projects if they like. The html can be in haml and will be transformed to html and can contain inline, compass-enabled sass.
• All files can be processed using ERB before being copied into the user's project.
• Compass extensions can now add support for other application frameworks. These extensions can help compass understand the project structure of that framework as well as provide runtime integration for ruby-based apps. Contact me if you plan to do this -- the first couple times may be a little rough.
• Compass extensions can now add new command line commands. Contact me if you plan to do this -- the first couple times may be a little rough.
• Extensions can now provide help documentation just after a project is created and on demand when the user uses the command line help system. This can be done via the manifest file or by adding a USAGE.markdown file at the top level of the framework template.

Miscellaneous:

• Lot of new docs can be found at: http://compass-style.org/.
• The compass configuration object is no longer a singleton, this makes it possible for other ruby software to manage multiple compass projects at a time.
• Compass no longer requires rubygems in order to work, this is a ruby best-practice.
• The command line tool is now tested using the cucumber testing framework.
• Removed support for the rip package manager.
• Removed the dependency on RMagic for grid image generation. (Credit: Richard Wöber)
• The unobtrusive-logo mixin is deprecated and will be removed. If you use this, please move the source to your project.

0.8.17 (September 24, 2009)

• The enumerate function now accepts an optional fourth parameter that specifies the separator to be used. Enables fixing a bug in the Compass 960 Plugin.

0.8.16 (September 12, 2009)

• Fixed a bug in compass that assumed compass extensions would provide stylesheets.

0.8.15 (September 5, 2009)

• Upgrade the FSSM library to 0.0.6 to fix bugs on windows.

0.8.14 (September 2, 2009)

• Upgrade the FSSM library to 0.0.4 to fix bugs and enable FS Events on Mac OS.

0.8.13 (August 30, 2009)

• [Blueprint] Mixins have been added for these as +prepend-top and +append-bottom and grid classes will be generated by +blueprint-grid.
• [Command Line] The watch mode has been re-implemented to use the FSSM library by Travis Tilley. OSX users will now have support for filesystem monitoring. Fixes an infinite looping bug that occured with syntax users.

0.8.12 (August 22, 2009)

Bug Fix Release:

• [Compass Core] Bug fix to sprites: fixed width and height assignments for x and y position variables
• Ruby 1.9.1 fix: binding for parse_string
• [Rails] Don't suggest creating a stylesheet link to partials.

0.8.10 (August 16, 2009)

Bug Fix Release:

• Write files in binary mode to avoid data corruption when installing images on windows. Fixes Issue #39

0.8.9 (August 9, 2009)

Bug Fix Release:

• [Blueprint] The default screen.sass generated invalid selectors due to improper nesting. A better fix is coming in the next release.

0.8.8 (July 21, 2009)

Bug Fix Release:

• [Compass Core] Fixed a bug in alternating_rows_and_columns. Improper nesting caused some styles to be improperly rendered. Commit
• [YUI] Fixed a bug in yui grids where the .first div wouldn't get the right styles in some rare cases due to incorrect nesting. Commit

0.8.7 (July 09, 2009)

Bug Fix Release:

• Load haml-edge only if it's all new and shiny. Closes GH-26. Commit
• [Blueprint] Added more descriptive comments to the Blueprint IE template. Commit
• [Rails] Fixed a bug in rails integration if the request is not set on the controller. Commit
• [Blueprint] Fixed a bug in the calculations for the +colborder mixin. Closes GH-25. Commit

0.8.6 (July 08, 2009)

Rails

• The rails installer now correctly references the haml 2.2 dependency. Commit by Filip Tepper.
• When installing into a new rails project, set the http paths correctly for stylesheets and javascripts in the configuration file. Commit
• Fixed a bug in asset hosts support when compiling outside the context of a controller. Commit

Command Line

• Fixed a bug that caused the output after installing to not display the conditional comments. Commit

Compass Core

• Fixed a copy & paste error in image_url() that caused the http_images_path to not get picked up unless the http_stylesheets_path was also set. Commit

0.8.5 (July 06, 2009)

The Compass::TestCase class now inherits from ActiveSupport::TestCase if it exists. Commit

0.8.4 (July 06, 2009)

Fixed a bug in rails integration introduced in 0.8.3.

0.8.3 (July 06, 2009)

Note: Compass now depends on the stable release of haml with version 2.2.0 or greater.

Compass Core

• A new helper function stylesheet_url(path) can now be used to refer to assets that are relative to the css directory. Commit.
• Cross browser ellipsis mixin is now available. Use compass -p ellipsis to install it into your project since it requires some additional assets. Commit.

Blueprint

• The +colruler mixin now accepts an argument for the color. Commit by Thomas Reynolds.

Extensions

• A bug was fixed related to how javascript installation as part of an extension manifest. Commit by dturnbull.
• When installing a file, the :like option can now be set to have it installed into the same location as what it is like. E.g. file 'foo.xml', :like => :css will install the foo.xml file into the top level of the project's css directory. Commit.

Configuration

• Setting http_images_path to :relative is now deprecated. Instead, please set relative_assets to true. Commit.
• New configuration option http_path can be used to set the project's path relative to the server's root. Defaults to "/". The http paths to images, stylesheets, and javascripts are now assumed to be relative to that path but can be overridden using the http_images_path, http_css_path, http_javascripts_path. Commit.

Command Line

• A new command line option --relative-assets can be used to cause links to assets generated via compass helper functions to be relative to the target css file. Commit.

0.8.2 (July 04, 2009)

Fixed a bug that caused touch to fail on windows due to open files. (Contributor: Joe Wasson)

0.8.1

Fixed some build issues and a bug in the rewritten --watch mode that caused changes to partials to go unnoticed.

0.8.0

Rails

• image_url() now integrates with the rails asset handling code when stylesheets are generated within the rails container. This causes your rails configuration for cache busting and asset hosts to be used when generating your stylesheets. Unfortunately, all that code runs within the context of a controller, so the stylesheets have to be generated during first request to use this functionality. If you need to compile stylesheets offline, use the compass configuration file to set the asset_host and asset_cache_buster. Commit.

• An official Rails template for Compass is now provided. Commit by Derek Perez.

Blueprint

• The Blueprint port has been upgraded to match Blueprint 0.9. The following changes were made as part of that project:

  • Removed body margins from blueprint scaffolding by default. The old body styles can be reinstated by mixing +blueprint-scaffolding-body into your body selector(s). Commit by Enrico Bianco.
  • A bug in the calculations affecting the +colborder mixin has been fixed. Commit by Enrico Bianco. Related commit.
  • Blueprint now has inline form support. Mix +blueprint-inline-form into a form selector to make it inline. Commit by Enrico Bianco.
  • Please update the conditional comment that surrounds your IE stylesheet to use "lt IE 8" as the condition as these styles are not needed in IE8. New blueprint projects will now use this conditional as their default. Commit by Enrico Bianco.
  • Explicitly define image interpolation mode for IE so that images aren't jagged when resizing. Commit by Enrico Bianco.

• When starting a new project based on Blueprint, a more complete screen.sass file will be provided that follows compass best practices instead of matching blueprint css exactly. A partials/_base.sass file is provided and already set up for blueprint customization. Commit

• The sizes and borders for form styling can now be altered via mixin arguments. Commit by Thomas Reynolds.

• Grid borders can now be altered via mixin arguments. Commit by Thomas Reynolds.

• The reset file for blueprint has moved from compass/reset.sass to blueprint/reset.sass. Please update your imports accordingly. Also note that some of the reset mixin names have changed (now prefixed with blueprint-*). Commit by Noel Gomez.

Compass Core

• Sprites. A basic sprite mixin is now available. Import compass/utilities/sprites.sass and use the +sprite-img mixin to set the background image from a sprite image file. Assumes every sprite in the sprite image file has the same dimensions. Commit by Thomas Reynolds.

• Reset. The compass reset is now based on Eric Meyer's reset. which makes no attempt to apply base styles like the blueprint reset does. Existing compass projects will want to change their reset import to point to blueprint/reset.sass -- which is where the old default reset for compass projects now lives -- see the blueprint notes above for more information. Commit by Noel Gomez.

• A bug was fixed in the tag_cloud mixin so that it actually works. Commit by Bjørn Arild Mæland.

Sass Extensions

• The inline_image(image_path) function can now be used to generate a data url that embeds the image data in the generated css file -- avoiding the need for another request. This function works like image_url() in that it expects the image to be a path relative to the images directory. There are clear advantages and disadvantages to this approach. See Wikipedia for more details. NOTE: Neither IE6 nor IE7 support this feature. Commit.

Configuration

• Asset Hosts. You can now configure the asset host(s) used for images via the image_url() function. Asset hosts are off unless configured and also off when relative urls are enabled. Commit. In your compass configuration file, you must define an asset_host algorithm to be used like so: # Return the same host for all images: asset_host {|path| "http://assets.example.com" } # Return a different host based on the image path. asset_host do |path| "http://assets%d.example.com" % (path.hash % 4) end

• Configurable Cache Buster. You can now configure the cache buster that gets placed at the end of images via the image_url function. This might be useful if you need to coordinate the query string or use something other than a timestamp. Commit Example: asset_cache_buster do |path, file| "busted=true" end

• You can now set/override arbitrary sass options by setting the sass_options configuration property to a hash. Commit.

• You can now specify additional import paths to look for sass code outside the project. Commit. This can be done in two ways:

  1. By setting additional_import_paths to an array of paths.
  2. By (repeatedly) calling add_import_path(path)

• The compass configuration can now be placed in PROJECT_DIR/.compass/config.rb if you so choose. Commit.

Command Line

• Watch Improvements The watch command was rewritten for robustness and reliability. The most important change is that generated css files will be deleted if the originating sass file is removed while watching the project. Commit.

• The images and javascripts directories may now be set via the command line. Commit.

• The usage output (-h) of the command-line has been reformatted to make it more readable and understandable. Commit.

• The configuration file being read can now be specified explicitly using the -c option. This also affects the output location of the --write-configuration command. NOTE: The -c option used to be for writing the configuration file, an infrequently used option. Commit.

• You can now install into the current working directory by explicitly setting the command line mode to -i and providing no project name. Commit.

Compass Internals

• Some internal code was reorganized to make managing sass extensions and functions more manageable.

• Some internal code was reorganized to make managing ruby application integration more manageable.

• The compass unit tests were reorganized to separate rails testing from other tests.

• The Rip Packaging System is now supported. Commit by Will Farrington.

• A licence is now available making the copyrights and terms of use clear for people who care about such things.

0.6.14

Extracted the css validator to an external gem that is only required if you try to use the validation feature. This makes the compass gem a lot smaller (0.37MB instead of 4MB). To install the validator:

sudo gem install chriseppstein-compass-validator --source http://gems.github.com/

0.6.8 thru 0.6.13

The compass gem is now built with Jeweler instead of Echoe. No changes to speak of. These versions were bug fixes and working out the new release process.

0.6.7

Bug fix release.

Rails

The output_style will no longer be set in the compass.config file. Instead compass will use the runtime rails environment to set a sensible default.

Command Line

The Sass cache directory will be placed into the sass directory of the project instead of the directory from where the compass command was ran.

Compass Core

Extracted two new mixins from +horizontal-list. The new +horizontal-list-container and +horizontal-list-item mixins can be used to build your horizontal list when you need more control over the selectors (E.g. when working with nested lists).

0.6.6

The Haml project now releases a gem called haml-edge that is built from the haml master branch instead of stable. Compass now depends on this gem and will continue to do so until haml 2.2 is released. This should reduce the number of installation problems that have been encountered by new users.

Command Line

• Fixed a bug that had broken the --write-configuration (-c) option.
• The --force option will now force recompilation. Useful when the stylesheets don't appear to need a recompile according to the file timestamps.

Unit tests

• Some unit tests were cleaned up for clarity and to better take advantage of the compass project management facilities.

0.6.5

Compass Core

Converted all mixins definitions referencing images to use the new sass function image_url(). The following mixins were affected:

• +pretty-bullets
• +replace-text

The calls to these mixins should now pass a path to the image that is relative to the images directory of the project.

Command Line

• Required frameworks specified from the command line will now be added into the initial project configuration file.

0.6.4

Command Line

Added a command line option --install-dir that will emit the directory where compass is installed. Useful for debugging and drilling into the compass examples and libraries.

0.6.3

Rails

Bug fix: The http_images_path configuration default should be "/images" instead of "/public/images".

Command Line

These changes, coupled with upcoming changes to Sass result in significantly reduced time spent on compilation for large projects.

• The compass command line will no longer recompile sass files that haven't changed (taking import dependencies into account).
• The compass command line will now respect the -q (quiet) option during compilation. Additionally, the quiet option will be set by default when watching a project for changes.

0.6.2

Blueprint

Split the push and pull mixins into sub-mixins that separate the common styles from the ones that vary. The generated css when using presentational class names will be smaller as a result. The existing +push and +pull mixins continue to work as expected. The following mixins were added:

+push-base
+push-margins
+pull-base
+pull-margins

Additonally, the liquid plugin was updated to have a span mixin that matches elsewhere.

YUI

Added Yahoo's version of the css reset. To use it, mix into the top level of your project:

@import yui/modules/reset.sass
+reset

Rails

• Conditionally defining #blank? on String/NilClass (Erik Bryn erik.bryn@gmail.com)
• Set compass environment in plugin based on RAILS_ENV (Lee Nussbaum wln@scrunch.org)

0.6.1

Maintenance release that fixes several bugs in the handling of configuration files.

0.6.0

New Core Functionality: Patterns

Patterns give a framework or plugin access to the compass installer framework to install customizable sass, html as well as image and javascript assets.

A pattern is a folder in the plugin's templates directory. It must have a manifest file that tells compass what to install and where. Unlike the project template, a pattern can be stamped out any number of times.

It is best for pattern stylesheets to only provide example usage to get the user started. All the core styles for the pattern should be distributed as part of the framework's stylesheets as mixins to facilitate easy upgrades and bug fixing on the part of the pattern's maintainer.

Example Usage: compass --framework blueprint --pattern buttons

Please read the Wiki Page for more information.

New Command-line options:

1. --validate
   Validate your project's compiled css. Requires java and probably only works on Mac and Unix.
2. --grid-img [DIMENSIONS]
   Generate a background image to test grid alignment. Dimension is given as <column_width>+<gutter_width>. Defaults to 30+10.
3. -p, --pattern PATTERN
   When combined with with the --framework option, will stamp a plugin's pattern named PATTERN.
4. -n, --pattern-name NAME
   When combined with the --pattern option, the pattern that gets stamped out will be isolated in subdirectories named NAME.
5. -c, --write-configuration
   Emit a compass configuration file into the current directory, taking any existing configuration file and any command line options provided into account. (command line options override configuration file options).

New Sass Functions:

Compass projects can call these sass functions within their sass files, if you find them useful.

1. enumerate(prefix, start, end)
   Generates selectors with a prefix and a numerical ending counting from start to end. E.g. enumerate("foo", 1, 3) returns "foo-1, foo-2, foo-3"
2. image_url(path)
   Uses the compass configuration to convert a path relative to the compass project directory to a path that is either absolute for serving in an HTTP context or that is relative to whatever css file the function was being compiled into. In the future, this function may also tap into the rails asset host configuration.

New Compass Core Mixins

1. +float-left & +float-right
   In order to include fixes for IE's double-margin bug universally, floats were implemented as a utility mixins. These are available by importing compass/utilities/general/float.sass which also imports the clearfix module.
2. +pie-clearfix
   Implementation of the position-is-everything clearfix that uses content :after.

Blueprint 0.8

The Compass port of Blueprint has been upgraded from 0.7.1 to 0.8.0. The 0.8.0 release brings many bug fixes and a few backward incompatible changes if you use it's presentational classnames (you don't do that, do you?). Upgrading to 0.8 is automatic when you upgrade to compass 0.6.0. The Blueprint team didn't release a detailed changelog for me to point at here. One of the key features of the release was the inclusion of three new core blueprint plugins (a.k.a. folders you can copy). These are what prompted the development of the compass patterns feature and two of them are packaged as patterns:

1. Buttons
   To install: compass --framework blueprint --pattern buttons
   Then follow your nose.
2. Link Icons
   To install: compass --framework blueprint --pattern link_icons
   Then follow your nose.

The third plugin is the RTL (right-to-left) plugin. To use this one, simply import it after the import of the blueprint grid and your mixins will be redefined to work in a left to right manner. Additionally, it provides +rtl-typography mixin that works in conjunction with +blueprint-typography and should be mixed in with it.

Lastly, I've rewrote some of the presentational class name generation code so that it very nearly matches the blueprint CSS. Please note that they are not 100% the same because we fix some bugs that are not yet fixed in blueprint-css and we use a different clearfix implementation.

Bug Fixes

1. A Safari bug related to the +clearfix mixin was resolved.
2. Running the compass command line installer a second time.

Bugs Introduced

Almost definitely. Please let me know if you encounter any problems and I'll get a patch out