# GitHub Pages and Jekyll 4.0.0

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/github-pages-and-jekyll-4-0-0/3471>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 18, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/github-pages-and-jekyll-4-0-0/3471 "2019-10-18T08:21:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![dannyalright](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/dannyalright/32/213_2.png) [@dannyalright](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/dannyalright)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/github-pages-and-jekyll-4-0-0/3471/1 "2019-10-18T08:21:10Z")

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Jekyll 4.0.0 has been out for almost two months now, yet GitHub Pages [still uses Jekyll 3.8.5](https://pages.github.com/versions/). The differences in 4.0.0 features described in the documentation (such as [the new](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/liquid/tags/#links) `{% link %}` behaviour) make it a pain to be backwards compatible for GitHub Pages.

**Does anyone know the typical amount of time GitHub Pages takes to adopt new Jekyll versions? Or a place where they might share these kind of timelines?**

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**Author:** ![dannyalright](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/dannyalright/32/213_2.png) [@dannyalright](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/dannyalright)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 10:17am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/github-pages-and-jekyll-4-0-0/3471/2 "2019-10-20T10:17:33Z")

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I’ve found a similar discussion as a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/github/pages-gem/issues/651) on the **[pages-gem](https://github.com/github/pages-gem)** repository. That will probably be where the news is posted.