diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Version 0.11.1 released 23 Jul 2015
+
+  * Allow `commonmark` as a page type.
+  * Handle CommonMark page type on initialization.
+
 Version 0.11 released 02 Jun 2015
 
   * Allow page extensions to be configurable (not just `.page`)
diff --git a/Network/Gitit/Initialize.hs b/Network/Gitit/Initialize.hs
--- a/Network/Gitit/Initialize.hs
+++ b/Network/Gitit/Initialize.hs
@@ -138,14 +138,15 @@
                      }
         -- note: we convert this (markdown) to the default page format
         converter = case pt of
-                       Markdown  -> id
-                       LaTeX     -> writeLaTeX defOpts . toPandoc
-                       HTML      -> writeHtmlString defOpts . toPandoc
-                       RST       -> writeRST defOpts . toPandoc
-                       Textile   -> writeTextile defOpts . toPandoc
-                       Org       -> writeOrg defOpts . toPandoc
-                       DocBook   -> writeDocbook defOpts . toPandoc
-                       MediaWiki -> writeMediaWiki defOpts . toPandoc
+                       Markdown   -> id
+                       CommonMark -> writeCommonMark defOpts . toPandoc
+                       LaTeX      -> writeLaTeX defOpts . toPandoc
+                       HTML       -> writeHtmlString defOpts . toPandoc
+                       RST        -> writeRST defOpts . toPandoc
+                       Textile    -> writeTextile defOpts . toPandoc
+                       Org        -> writeOrg defOpts . toPandoc
+                       DocBook    -> writeDocbook defOpts . toPandoc
+                       MediaWiki  -> writeMediaWiki defOpts . toPandoc
 
     welcomepath <- getDataFileName $ "data" </> "FrontPage" <.> "page"
     welcomecontents <- liftM converter $ readFileUTF8 welcomepath
diff --git a/Network/Gitit/Util.hs b/Network/Gitit/Util.hs
--- a/Network/Gitit/Util.hs
+++ b/Network/Gitit/Util.hs
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
   case map toLower s of
        "markdown"     -> (Markdown,False)
        "markdown+lhs" -> (Markdown,True)
+       "commonmark"   -> (CommonMark,False)
        "rst"          -> (RST,False)
        "rst+lhs"      -> (RST,True)
        "html"         -> (HTML,False)
diff --git a/gitit.cabal b/gitit.cabal
--- a/gitit.cabal
+++ b/gitit.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                gitit
-version:             0.11
+version:             0.11.1
 Cabal-version:       >= 1.6
 build-type:          Simple
 synopsis:            Wiki using happstack, git or darcs, and pandoc.