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+layout: news_item
+title: "Jekyll 1.2 Released"
+date: "2013-09-06 22:02:41 -0400"
+author: parkr
+version: 1.2.0
+categories: [release]
+---
+
+After nearly a month and a half of hard work, the Jekyll team is happy to
+announce the release of v1.2.0. It's chock full of bug fixes and some
+enhancements that we think you'll love.
+
+Here are a few things we think you'll want to know about this release:
+
+* Run `jekyll serve --detatch` to boot up a WEBrick server in the background. **Note:** you'll need to run `kill [server_pid]` to shut the server down.
+* You can now **disable automatically-generated excerpts** if you set `excerpt_separator` to `""`.
+* If you're moving around pages and post, you can now check for **URL conflicts** by running `jekyll doctor`.
+* If you're a fan of the drafts feature, you'll be happy to know we've added `-D`, a shortened version `--drafts`.
+* Permalinks with special characters should now generate without errors.
+* Expose the current Jekyll version as the `jekyll.version` Liquid variable.
+
+For a full run-down, visit our [change log](../history/)!