Ah, but this is the beauty of open source and, in Hugo's case, being mostly a static site genetator: you're more than free to run ancient versions of Hugo, and

Ah, but this is the beauty of open source and, in Hugo's case, being mostly a static site genetator: you're more than free to run ancient versions of Hugo, and no-one can stop you! I run a dumb old version of Hugo for my two blogs and resume which are deployed with a custom build system I built in a rush. They haven't exploded yet!