Published October 15, 2025
Yesterday I pushed a pre-release for Render Engine to test out a new feature I have been working on. While in my testing, and with this site, that feature works without issue. When Jay installed it for his site it ran into an issue that I did not expect. Hopefully that issue will be solved in a day or so (it depends when Jay or I have the time to code a fix.) It's an important reminder that releasing the code into the wild will often show issues that you don't expect when you're designing or coding something. (The issue was caused by Jinja2 not liking something in one of the markdown files and choking when trying to parse it as a template.)
A pre-release (alpha, beta, whatever you want to call it) might not turn up anything but it's a good way to find things because of something you didn't think of. For this issue we have a couple of things we want to do:
Maybe I should have thought of one or more of these things when I was working on the feature, but I didn't. But now I know that they need to be handled so we can do that before we release it to everyone. Pre-releases matter.