Rendering but not writing html file

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Have a strange problem where Jekyll is detecting a markdown file and using it but not writing the html file.

I have a collection called “changelog” set up and add new entries into the “_changelog” folder. I have a page that iterates all the entries and enables click through to the entry.

With one particular file it’s not working correctly. I see the entry showing up in the index page being populated with

    {% assign changelogs = (site.changelog | sort: 'date') | reverse %}
    {% for version in changelogs %}

Looking at the --verbose logs I can see the file being found

Reading: _changelog/2023-08-23-case-creation-additions.md

I can see the file being rendered

Rendering Markup: _changelog/2023-08-23-case-creation-additions.md/#excerpt

but I don’t see a corresponding writing entry like the following.

 Writing: /workdir/site/_site/changelog/2023-08-07-embedded-eiv-url/index.html

I’ve checked the UTF8 BOM and other common issues, but at a loss about why the html file isn’t being written.

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Does this only happen with one specific file, or does it happen with all files from the _changelog directory?

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Does the file have YAML front-matter? By default Jekyll doesn’t generate HTML unless the Markdown file has front-matter (can be empty). Note that Github Pages uses a plugin to force all Markdown into HTML.

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At the moment it’s only happening with the most recent file in the _changelog directory, all the test are rendering to html files correctly.

Yes the new md file has YAML front-matter. The page I have rendering the list of _changelog entries is correctly rendering including the front matter from the file from which an html file isn’t being created.

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maybe it is a future date issue? maybe it will work tomorrow!

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I think that may be it, locally its working where the date is valid on the build server where the clock will be UTC the date will be tomorrow.

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Just did some further testing and this was the problem. Locally the date was “2023-08-23” and so everything rendered correctly. On the build server in UTC that date was a future one as therefore the markdown file was not rendered.

The weirdness came about because it’s returned in the following query, but not actually renderered.

{% assign changelogs = (site.changelog | sort: 'date') | reverse %}

Adding future: true to _config.yml resolved the issue.