DevLab Theme v0.2.0

This article describes its original release. Configuration examples may use retired settings. For v0.9, follow the upgrade guide and the current reference.

DevLab Theme v0.2.0 establishes the foundation for a maintainable Zola-native documentation theme without adding a frontend toolchain.

Highlights

• A calm surface system replaces the experimental liquid-glass treatment.
• The documentation workspace now uses a full-height sidebar, readable article column and compact table of contents.
• Previous and next documentation links are rendered by Zola and work without JavaScript, including across nested sections.
• Mobile navigation manages focus, keeps keyboard navigation inside the drawer and restores focus after closing.
• Search exposes an accessible combobox and listbox contract with live result feedback.
• Template extension hooks allow custom metadata, CSS, scripts and body integrations without copying base.html.
• Structured extra.devlab settings become the primary configuration contract while 0.1.x flat fields remain supported.
• Blog pagination, release badges and published or updated metadata turn Blog into a practical Updates channel.
• Copy feedback is announced to assistive technology and interface transitions respect reduced-motion preferences.

Compatibility

Existing 0.1.x configuration continues to work. New sites should use the structured groups documented under extra.devlab.

The DevLab v0.2.0 templates can build with Zola 0.22.0 when a site uses config.toml or passes --config zola.toml explicitly. This repository and its documentation use zola.toml, whose automatic discovery starts with Zola 0.22.1. The supported native workflow is therefore Zola 0.22.1 or newer: zola check followed by zola build.