How to define Hugo version?

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Hey there,

So it’s true that we don’t have a slick way to control the version of Hugo - but, it’s actually entirely possible to use whichever version you like.

The Render buildCommand can be a script, as opposed to say, hugo --gc and if you were to have a render-build.sh script that did:

# save as render-build.sh and make sure it's executable
hugo version # Output the OLD version
if [[! -f $XDG_CACHE_HOME/hugo]]; then 
  echo "...Downloading HUGO" 
  mkdir -p ~/tmp 
  wget -P ~/tmp https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.99.1/hugo_0.99.1_Linux-32bit.tar.gz 
  cd ~/tmp
  echo "...Extracting HUGO" 
  tar -xzvf hugo_0.99.1_Linux-32bit.tar.gz
  echo "...Moving HUGO"
  mv hugo $XDG_CACHE_HOME/hugo  
  cd $HOME/project/src # Make sure we return to where we were
else 
  echo "...Using HUGO from build cache"
fi

$XDG_CACHE_HOME/hugo version # Output the NEW version
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/hugo --gc --minify`

then you can control the version of Hugo that your site is built with :grin:

John B

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