Zensical 0.1.0

You've put time into your MkDocs project – your content, configuration, plugins, and publishing workflow. Zensical 0.1.0 lets you bring that work with you. Today, we're also moving Studio out of beta, with Free, Pro, and Team editions for writing, checking, and refactoring your documentation.

0.1.0 – a major milestone

Zensical 0.1.0 marks the move beyond the 0.0.x alpha series and into beta. We'll use the next three months to gather feedback and refine Zensical, aiming to move to stable afterward.

MkDocs compatibility is at the heart of this release. We've closed major remaining gaps, including replacements for many widely used plugins, so you can bring your existing content and configuration to Zensical. Build your project with both tools, compare the results, and switch when you're ready. Our migration guide walks you through it.

This milestone also gives us a foundation to build beyond site generation. We're building Zensical to help you reuse content across projects, maintain documentation across versions and languages, and publish the same sources to websites, PDFs, and other formats. Our roadmap shows where we're headed.

Studio Free, Pro, and Team

The Studio public beta has ended. If you took part, you're now using Studio Free. It includes live preview, Python Markdown formatting and linting, link completion, and checks for broken links – no account or subscription required.

Studio Pro and Team provide project-wide refactoring, including automatic link updates when you move or rename files. Team includes organization-owned, reassignable seats. Compare editions.

By subscribing to Studio Pro or Team, you help fund the continued development of Zensical and our other Open Source projects, and keep us independent.

A thank-you to our beta testers

As a thank-you for joining the Studio beta, get $20 off your first year of Studio Pro with annual billing before November 9:

Discount code

THANKS20

Select Studio Pro with annual billing and enter THANKS20 at checkout. $159 for the first year, then $179/year, before tax. Offer ends November 9, 2026 at 00:00 UTC.

Spark Community

We're taking more time to get Spark Community ready. In the last newsletter, we shared a first look at how we're bringing early releases and the conversations around them together. We're now planning to welcome individuals in January 2027.

If you chose the Studio Pro + Spark Community bundle as an early supporter, we've already been in touch by email about a price adjustment to account for the delay. Thank you for backing us early.

For organizations, Spark remains available today, with direct support from our team to help you keep migrations and rollouts moving.

Five more MkDocs plugin replacements

Since the last newsletter, we've shipped replacements for optimize, privacy, include-markdown, markdownextradata, and nav-weight. Most existing plugin configuration works unchanged in Zensical. See the compatibility guide for supported settings and differences.

Your voice matters

This release reflects a year of contributions, bug reports, and conversations across the community. Our roadmap gives us a clear direction. Your ideas and feedback help us prioritize the work and refine the details.

And as always, if you have questions or thoughts about where we're headed, simply reply to this email – we read everything.