Render Engine 2025.10.1 has been released

Published October 22, 2025

I am pleased to announce the release of Render Engine version 2025.10.1. This version has been in the works for the last few months and includes:

• Moving the CLI to it's own repo*
• Page and Collection objects handle their own rendering.
• The ability to have multiple sort keys for a Collection by passing in a list of attributes to sort by.
• Add the ability to generate HTML and/or XML site maps.
• Add the ability to use the generated site map to search from within the content**

Coming up in a future release:

• Add the ability from the command line to generate the site map (HTML and XML) so you can see it before you publish.
• ContentManager to allow you to determine where you want the content for a collection comes from. Maybe you want it to come from multiple directories. Maybe you want it to come from a database. I don't know. This will let you add your own ContentManager so you can specify it yourself.
• Tweaks and additions to the site map functionality so you can better control the HTML output.

Render Engine is available on PyPi. Install via pip install render-engine. Documentation can be found at https://render-engine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

If you're interested in contributing check us out on GitHub.

* To install the CLI run pip install render-engine-cli . Please note that there may be some slight changes in the commands between the old and new CLIs.

** Refer to the documentation for details on how.

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