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I use Pandoc as a static site generator and previous versions of the program allowed me to specify YAML files with metadata about the document like so:

pandoc --defaults ./base.yaml -o ./res/head.html ./res/head.md

However, now when I install it to a new system I get the following as output:

Unknown option --defaults.

The Pandoc user guide still specifies a --defaults option, but pandoc --help does not list the option.

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This is usually caused by an outdated pandoc version. The --defaults option was added in pandoc 2.8, which was released about a year ago (2019-11-22). If you installed pandoc through your package manager, try to download it directly from the releases page, or use a Docker image.

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