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Hmm, I hate to be a downer but this is a bit of a disappointing announcement for a major upgrade - basically, one very minor addition and a bunch of features removed - not that they were needed/widely used, but there's nothing else to show for it. Am I missing something?

Also it's a bit unfortunate there's still no easy way to do site translation in Jekyll.

Anyway, well done on the upgrade. Love jekyll.

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A lot of the Jekyll 3 changes [1] thus far are focused on making the development life easier: faster (incremental) local builds and a lighter, easier to install stack with fewer dependencies (no more native library dependencies out of the box, no more dependencies on Python and Node by default).

Correct, nothing really mind blowing if you have all of it already set up and a relatively small Jekyll site, but big news for new users (especially on Windows where the native libraries and multi-language support have been bigger hurdles) and for people with large sites both in locally developing and debugging them and also in Github deployment times.

[1] https://jekyllrb.com/news/2015/10/26/jekyll-3-0-released/

I have to agree: they took away 2 features I was using and gave me better performance in the one place I don't care about performance.

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