## kramdown 0.4.0 released

This release features the addition of a [simple table syntax][1] and [syntax highlighting][2] of
code blocks. I think that with these two additions kramdown now supports all the major features
regarding parsing and HTML output that Maruku supports.

Regarding speed: Simple benchmarks using the Markdown README file (can be found inside [this zip
file][3]) show that kramdown is currently faster than, for example, the original Markdown.pl, PHP
Markdown, PHP Markdown Extra, Python Markdown and Maruku.


## Changes

* Major changes:

- Added [syntax][1] for simple tables
- Added optional [syntax highlighting][2] of code blocks through the CodeRay library

* Minor changes:

- Changed CSS class name `kramdown-footnotes` to `footnotes` for better compatibility

* Bug fixes:

- Regular expression for matching escaped characters now works correctly

[1]: ../syntax.html#tables
[2]: ../syntax.html#syntax-highlighting
[3]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/downloads/Markdown_1.0.1.zip



About kramdown

kramdown is a fast, pure-Ruby Markdown-superset converter.

kramdown is yet-another-markdown-parser but fast, pure Ruby,
using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.