announcement

Introducing Fanstatic 7.0.0

2026-09-18

Fanstatic is the new name for the static site generator you may have known as SuCoS. If you've used SuCoS, you already know Fanstatic — the engine, the CLI, the Liquid templates, and every feature built up over six and a half years of releases carry straight over. What changes with v7.0.0 is the name, the home, and the role: this is no longer a personal project with a side hustle, it's first-class tooling under the MASS4 organization.

Why the rename

SuCoS — "Tastiest C# Static Site Generator of the World" — was a personal project from day one, built to get better at C# and to stop fighting Hugo's templating. Over nine major versions it grew Markdown extensions, sections and taxonomies, multi-language support with full i18n, ref/relref shortcodes, and a validate-links command that understands local versus production URLs. Somewhere along the way it quietly became the tool every other project reached for, MASS4's sites included. Fanstatic — for Fans of a Fantastic Static Site Generator — is that same tool, renamed to match what it actually is now: shared infrastructure, not a side project. New source home at github.com/MASS4ORG/fanstatic, still MIT licensed.

What's still here

Nothing was left behind in the move. Fanstatic v7.0.0 is the direct continuation of SuCoS v6.9.0, with the same CLI surface:

fanstatic new-site <YOUR_SITE_PATH>             # To create your site
fanstatic <YOUR_SITE_PATH>                      # To build your site
fanstatic serve <YOUR_SITE_PATH>                # To build and run locally
fanstatic validate-links <YOUR_SITE_PATH>       # To check all links
fanstatic api <YOUR_CODE_PATH> <YOUR_SITE_PATH> # To generate API reference

That includes Liquid templating, Hugo-style shortcodes, full i18n with per-language sections and translation strings, smart validate-links local-baseurl resolution, and — as of the last SuCoS release before the rename — a native Windows installer.

What's new since v7.0.0

The rename shipped alongside the work already in flight: v7.0.1 fixed the Windows installer placing fanstatic correctly on the user PATH, and v7.0.2 added a winget manifest, so Windows users can now install with:

winget install MASS4ORG.Fanstatic

Get started

Grab a release from github.com/MASS4ORG/fanstatic for Linux or Windows, or install via winget on Windows. Everything you already know from SuCoS applies — the docs on this site are the same docs, just living at a new address.