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title: "Octopress 2.0 Surfaces"
date: 2011-07-23 18:05
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categories: release
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Octopress is a framework designed by [Brandon Mathis](http://brandonmathis.com) for Jekyll, the static blogging engine powering Github Pages.

## What's new in 2.0?

Short answer: Everything. Octopress is now based on [mojombo/jekyll](http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll) has been completely rewritten from the ground up with a mountain of goodies.
Be sure to check out the [documentation](/docs) to get the full scoop.

### The highlights

**Plugins FTW.** Here are some cool plugins included with Octopress.

- [HTML5 Video Tag](/docs/plugins/video-tag) - *easily post images with class names and titles*
- [Code Block](/docs/plugins/codeblock) - *for easy inline code sharing*
- [Include Code](/docs/plugins/include-code) - *embed code from your filesystem*
- [Gist Tag](/docs/plugins/gist-tag) - *automatically downloads and embeds Github gists*
- [Image Tag](/docs/plugins/image-tag) - *easily post images with class names and titles*
- [Render Partial](/docs/plugins/render-partial) - *insert any file into another post or page*
- [Blockquote](/docs/plugins/blockquote) - *generate beautiful, semantic block quotes*
- [Pullquote](/docs/plugins/pullquote) - *generate CSS only pull quotes — no duplicate data, no javascript*
- [Category Generator](/docs/plugins/category-generator) - *generates archive pages for each blog category*

For more plugins check out the [plugin list](/docs/plugins)

## Ready to Get Started?

Octopress is really easy to set up and deploy, [start here](/docs/setup)

For now that's it. Check out the [docs](/docs), [kick the tires](http://github.com/imathis/octopress), post [issues](http://github.com/imathis/octopress/issues) send me [support requests](http://convore.com/octopress/support) and tell all your friends.