--- title: Release v0.164.0 · gohugoio/hugo | daily.dev description: Hugo v0.164.0 introduces dark/light pairs for Chroma highlighter styles with new flags on the hugo gen chromastyles command. New template functions... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/release-v0-164-0-gohugoio-hugo-s3yt1jk0w twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Release v0.164.0 · gohugoio/hugo | daily.dev og:description: Hugo v0.164.0 introduces dark/light pairs for Chroma highlighter styles with new flags on the hugo gen chromastyles command. New template functions... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/release-v0-164-0-gohugoio-hugo-s3yt1jk0w og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/S3yT1jK0w.png og:image:alt: Release v0.164.0 · gohugoio/hugo og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Release v0.164.0 · gohugoio/hugo **[Hugo](https://daily.dev/sources/hugo)** · 2 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hugo v0.164.0 introduces dark/light pairs for Chroma highlighter styles with new flags on the hugo gen chromastyles command. New template functions encoding.HexEncode, encoding.HexDecode, and crypto.Hash are added. Other additions include a markup.rst.syntaxHighlight option, Pandoc citation support, sub-path support in layouts passed to Page.Render, and case-insensitive template name lookup. The release also fixes a performance regression introduced in v0.128.0 that affected larger sites. resources.PostProcess is deprecated in favor of templates.Defer. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What changed in Hugo v0.164.0? Hugo v0.164.0 adds dark/light mode pairs for Chroma highlighter styles with new flags on the hugo gen chromastyles command, new template functions encoding.HexEncode, encoding.HexDecode, and crypto.Hash, a markup.rst.syntaxHighlight option, Pandoc citation support, and sub path support in layouts passed to Page.Render. It also fixes a performance regression from v0.128.0 affecting larger sites. _Track Hugo release notes like these on daily.dev before upgrading a static site._ ### Does Hugo v0.164.0 fix the build performance regression from v0.128.0? Yes, Hugo v0.164.0 fixes a performance regression that was introduced back in v0.128.0, which was most noticeable on bigger sites experiencing slower builds. The fix follows community discussion on the Hugo forum about builds slowing down since that earlier release. _Developers debugging slow Hugo builds can follow fixes like this via daily.dev._ ### Is resources.PostProcess deprecated in Hugo? Yes, as of Hugo v0.164.0, resources.PostProcess is deprecated in favor of templates.Defer. 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