Polyglot 1.12 - redirect improvements and community contributions

31 Jan 2026

Jekyll-Polyglot 1.12.0 has been released! This release focuses on improving redirect handling and includes several community contributions.

redirect improvements

This release includes important improvements to how redirects work with Polyglot:

PR #275: Anchor tag preservation in redirects - thanks to a solution from @GruberMarkus, redirect URLs now properly preserve anchor tags, ensuring users land exactly where they intended.
PR #293: Sublanguage redirect support for the jekyll-redirect-from plugin - suggested by @rathboma, Polyglot now correctly scopes redirect_from frontmatter across sublanguages, preventing duplicate redirects and ensuring proper routing for non-default language pages.

PR #283: New page.rendered_lang variable - contributed by @rathboma, this new liquid variable lets you detect when a page is being rendered as a fallback. When page.rendered_lang != site.active_lang, you know the page content hasn’t been translated yet.

The /about page has been updated with instructions on how to best use this page.rendered_lang convenience liquid variable.

PR #280: Italian and Turkish language support has been added to the Polyglot documentation site, expanding our multilingual reach.

Several community members contributed improvements to the project:

PR #277: Updated sidebar rich text definitions, improving the site’s multilingual presentation.
PR #288: Japanese rich text strings contributed by @manabu-nakamura, enhancing the Japanese language experience.

A special thanks to @PanderMusubi for the jekyll-minimal-mistakes-polyglot demo, showing how to integrate Polyglot with the popular Minimal Mistakes theme.

Thank you to all contributors who made this release possible!