## About kramdown
kramdown (sic, not Kramdown or KramDown, just kramdown) is a *free*
MIT-licensed [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org) library for parsing a
superset of Markdown. It is completely written in Ruby, supports
standard Markdown (with some minor modifications) and various
extensions that have been made popular by the PHP Markdown Extra
package and Maruku.
Homepage for installation instructions and documentation:
http://kramdown.gettalong.org
## kramdown 1.9.0 released
This release contains some minor updates and bug fixes.
## Changes
* 3 minor changes:
- The Rouge syntax highlighter can now be enabled/disabled for spans
and/or blocks and options can now be set for both spans and blocks
as well as only for spans or only for blocks (fixes [#286],
requested by Raphael R.)
- Setting the 'footnote_backlink' option to an empty string now
completely suppresses footnotes (fixes [#270], requested by Kyle
Barbour)
- New converter HashAST for creating a hash from the internal tree
structure (fixes [#275], pull request by Hector Correa)
* 1 bug fix:
- When using the 'hard_wrap' option for the GFM parser, line numbers
were lost (fixes [#274], pull request by Marek Tuchowski)
[#286]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/286
[#270]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/270
[#275]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/275
[#274]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/274
Cheers,
Thomas