Code of Conduct

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll/about-github-pages-and-jekyll#syntax-highlighting

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

Currently the section "Syntax highlighting" says

By default, code blocks on your site will be highlighted by Jekyll. Jekyll uses the Rouge highlighter, which is compatible with Pygments. Pygments has been deprecated and not supported in Jekyll 4.

This may mislead readers that GitHub Pages already uses Jekyll 4, while actually it still uses Jekyll 3.9.3. See

• Dependency versions | GitHub Pages https://pages.github.com/versions/
• Support for Jekyll 4.0 pages-gem#651

Additional information

What "Pygments has been deprecated and not supported in Jekyll 4." (added in 724a274) said is true, but it's not the appropriate reason. pgyments was deprecated because GitHub Pages wanted to, not because the version of Jekyll used by GitHub Pages dropped support for it.

Pygments support was dropped

• by GitHub Pages in github/pages-gem@10b6ca7 committed on 2015-10-27 and shipped with github-pages gem package v44 on 2016-02-02 and
• by Jekyll in jekyll/jekyll@4707017 committed on 2018-09-27 and shipped with Jekyll v4.0.0 on 2019-08-20, which is 3.5 years later.