Hugo not rendering the summary from the front matter - hugo

Question

According to the Hugo content summary guide, I can define a summary in 3 ways (listed in order of highest preference):
Use the <!--more--> tag to tell how much of the article Hugo should use as the summary
Use the summary variable in the front matter in order to use a custom summary
Let Hugo by default use the first 70 words of the article
First and foremost, here is the template I have for individual pages:
{{ partial "header" . }}
{{ partial "nav" . }}
<section class="section">
<div class="container">
<div class="subtitle tags is-6 is-pulled-right">
{{ if .Params.tags }}
{{ partial "tags" .Params.tags }}
{{ end }}
</div>
{{if not .Date.IsZero }}
<h2 class="subtitle is-6">{{ .Date.Format "January 2, 2006" }}</h2>
{{ end }}
<h1 class="title">{{ .Title }}</h1>
{{ if .Site.Params.Info.related }}
<div class="related">{{ partial "related" . }}</div>
{{ end }}
<div class="content">
<h1 id="summary">Summary</h1>
{{ .Summary }}
<h1 id="toc">Table of Contents</h1>
{{ .TableOfContents }}
{{ .Content }}
</div>
</div>
</section>
{{ partial "footer" . }}
Here is a sample article I made:
---
title: "Test"
date: 2019-11-23T19:51:44-06:00
draft: true
summary: "This is a simple placeholder summary defined in the front matter"
---
This is a simple placeholder written in the article
# Section 1
Hello world!
The title and date render just fine, however, the summary is ignored and the words from the article as used as the summary:
I then used the <!--more--> tag like so:
---
title: "Test"
date: 2019-11-23T19:51:44-06:00
draft: true
summary: "This is a simple placeholder summary defined in the front matter"
---
This is a simple placeholder written in the article
<!--more-->
# Section 1
Hello world!
It worked like a charm...
So methods 1 and 3 for content summaries work, but method 2 does not. Is there a reason why I can't get the summary front matter to render?

Answer 1

This feature was introduce in Hugo 0.55.0 via issue #5800.
Upgrade to Hugo 0.55.0 or above to solve the issue