---
layout: news_item
title: 'Jekyll Turns 21! Err... I mean 2.1.0.'
date: 2014-06-28 17:26:59 -0400
author: parkr
version: 2.1.0
categories: [release]
---

Jekyll's finally [legal to drink in the States](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age).
And he's done a lot of learning in the process! Here are some of the new
things to look forward to:

- Uses the latest Liquid version (2.6.1) (#2495)
- Set front-matter defaults for collections (#2419)
- Set a collection-specific URL template (#2418)
- `pygments.rb` 0.6.0! (#2504)
- `.json` files in `_data` (#2369)
- New `--skip_initial_build` flag for `jekyll serve` (#2477)
- A bajilion bug fixes and site updates!

Let's go party!

*Check out the [full changelog](/docs/history/) for more.*