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Deprecate libsass #14261
Description
The upstream library is now EOL and the repo is archived. Also, it's time for us to move away from the extended CGO build and for Hugo users not already done that, move to https://gohugo.io/functions/css/sass/#dart-sass
Activity
tpl/css: Deprecate libsass in favor of dartsass (note)
tpl/css: Deprecate libsass in favor of dartsass (note)
tpl/css: Deprecate libsass in favor of dartsass (note)
CamilleScholtz commentedon Dec 21, 2025
Note that Dart does not have any FreeBSD (and other BSD's) support, dropping libsass would effectively mean *BSD can not be used to host hugo/sass websites.
jmooring commentedon Dec 21, 2025
@CamilleScholtz This will be addressed with sass/dart-sass#2413. Presuming we follow our standard deprecation practices, we will not disable the embedded LibSass transpiler for quite some time (approximately 12 months), giving the Sass team time to complete their efforts.
bep commentedon Dec 21, 2025
We're also not in a big rush removing this, so we can certainly adjust the deprecation timeline; unfortunately the benefit of removing the extended build (with CGO) doesn't even closely match the cost of adding it in the first place.
github-actions commentedon Jan 12, 2026
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