Giraffe Academy theme broke after update (

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Hey everyone.
I wanted to use the giraffe academy hugo theme (GitHub - giraffeacademy/ga-hugo-theme: A "Hugo - Static Site Generator" theme used in Giraffe Academy's Hugo course.) again for some tests, but after updating hugo (from about 0.110 to 0.139) the theme gives an error when trying to build it.
The steps to reproduce are simple:
make a new project
add the theme to themes folder
edit hugo.toml to include the theme
add a basic markdown file (with draft set to false or the line deleted in the front matter), e.g. with hugo new site.md
run hugo server

The error I get is the following

execute of template failed at <.URL>: can’t evaluate field URL in type page.Page

I saw in a post that this apparently can happen sometimes and resetting things, i.e. reinstalling things can help. However, every other theme, even complex ones, are working just fine. My first thought was, that the theme was outdated and something is handled differently now.
Does it work for you still? And what could be the cause of such different behaviours? Is there a “wrong” way to install/update hugo that can cause this?
(and the reason I didn’t try reinstalling things etc. yet is, that the things that are important do work. I need this one just for testing a few things)
Thank you all

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if I got it right the theme has it’s last commit 7y ago.

lots of releases in between with breaking changes…

depending on theme it might be quite an effort to get it running with a receng hugo version

btw. your error code log is not displayed

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Thanks for the reply (and the hint, no idea where it went, I’m sure it was there in the preview).
It seems to be just this one thing about the URL. when there is nothing in the content folder, it does start appropriately. Also, it did work back in 0.110 (might have been up to 0.119 even, forgot the exact version).
Are there any updated lightweight/tutorial themes out there?
Thanks

edit: I saw your reply in the other thread, that works, thanks
still curious about how to fix the URL thing though

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search for page.URL here in the forum - plenty of hits.