Sphinx 3.5

Release 3.5.4 (released Apr 11, 2021)

Dependencies

  • #9071: Restrict Docutils to 0.16

Bugs fixed

  • #9078: autodoc: Async staticmethods and classmethods are considered as non async coroutine-functions with Python3.10

  • #8870, #9001, #9051: html theme: The style are not applied with Docutils 0.17

    • toctree captions

    • The content of sidebar directive

    • figures

Release 3.5.3 (released Mar 20, 2021)

Features added

  • #8959: using UNIX path separator in image directive confuses Sphinx on Windows

Release 3.5.2 (released Mar 06, 2021)

Bugs fixed

  • #8943: i18n: Crashed by broken translation messages in ES, EL and HR

  • #8936: LaTeX: A custom LaTeX builder fails with unknown node error

  • #8952: Exceptions raised in a Directive cause parallel builds to hang

Release 3.5.1 (released Feb 16, 2021)

Bugs fixed

  • #8883: autodoc: AttributeError is raised on assigning __annotations__ on read-only class

  • #8884: html: minified js stemmers not included in the distributed package

  • #8885: html: AttributeError is raised if CSS/JS files are installed via html_context

  • #8880: viewcode: ExtensionError is raised on incremental build after unparsable python module found

Release 3.5.0 (released Feb 14, 2021)

Dependencies

  • LaTeX: multicol (it is anyhow a required part of the official latex2e base distribution)

Incompatible changes

Deprecated

  • pending_xref node for viewcode extension

  • sphinx.builders.linkcheck.CheckExternalLinksBuilder.anchors_ignore

  • sphinx.builders.linkcheck.CheckExternalLinksBuilder.auth

  • sphinx.builders.linkcheck.CheckExternalLinksBuilder.broken

  • sphinx.builders.linkcheck.CheckExternalLinksBuilder.good

  • sphinx.builders.linkcheck.CheckExternalLinksBuilder.redirected

  • sphinx.builders.linkcheck.CheckExternalLinksBuilder.rqueue

  • sphinx.builders.linkcheck.CheckExternalLinksBuilder.to_ignore

  • sphinx.builders.linkcheck.CheckExternalLinksBuilder.workers

  • sphinx.builders.linkcheck.CheckExternalLinksBuilder.wqueue

  • sphinx.builders.linkcheck.node_line_or_0()

  • sphinx.ext.autodoc.AttributeDocumenter.isinstanceattribute()

  • sphinx.ext.autodoc.directive.DocumenterBridge.reporter

  • sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer.get_module_members()

  • sphinx.ext.autosummary.generate._simple_info()

  • sphinx.ext.autosummary.generate._simple_warn()

  • sphinx.writers.html.HTMLTranslator.permalink_text

  • sphinx.writers.html5.HTML5Translator.permalink_text

Features added

  • #8022: autodoc: autodata and autoattribute directives does not show right-hand value of the variable if docstring contains :meta hide-value: in info-field-list

  • #8514: autodoc: Default values of overloaded functions are taken from actual implementation if they’re ellipsis

  • #8775: autodoc: Support type union operator (PEP-604) in Python 3.10 or above

  • #8297: autodoc: Allow to extend autodoc_default_options via directive options

  • #759: autodoc: Add a new configuration autodoc_preserve_defaults as an experimental feature. It preserves the default argument values of functions in source code and keep them not evaluated for readability.

  • #8619: html: kbd role generates customizable HTML tags for compound keys

  • #8634: html: Allow to change the order of JS/CSS via priority parameter for Sphinx.add_js_file() and Sphinx.add_css_file()

  • #6241: html: Allow to add JS/CSS files to the specific page when an extension calls app.add_js_file() or app.add_css_file() on html-page-context event

  • #6550: html: Allow to use HTML permalink texts via html_permalinks_icon

  • #1638: html: Add permalink icons to glossary terms

  • #8868: html search: performance issue with massive lists

  • #8867: html search: Update JavaScript stemmer code to the latest version of Snowball (v2.1.0)

  • #8852: i18n: Allow to translate heading syntax in MyST-Parser

  • #8649: imgconverter: Skip availability check if builder supports the image type

  • #8573: napoleon: Allow to change the style of custom sections using napoleon_custom_sections

  • #8004: napoleon: Type definitions in Google style docstrings are rendered as references when napoleon_preprocess_types enabled

  • #6241: mathjax: Include mathjax.js only on the document using equations

  • #8775: py domain: Support type union operator (PEP-604)

  • #8651: std domain: cross-reference for a rubric having inline item is broken

  • #7642: std domain: Optimize case-insensitive match of term

  • #8681: viewcode: Support incremental build

  • #8132: Add project_copyright as an alias of copyright

  • #207: Now highlight_language supports multiple languages

  • #2030: code-block and literalinclude supports automatic dedent via no-argument :dedent: option

  • C++, also hyperlink operator overloads in expressions and alias declarations.

  • #8247: Allow production lists to refer to tokens from other production groups

  • #8813: Show what extension (or module) caused it on errors on event handler

  • #8213: C++: add maxdepth option to cpp:alias to insert nested declarations.

  • C, add noroot option to c:alias to render only nested declarations.

  • C++, add noroot option to cpp:alias to render only nested declarations.

Bugs fixed

  • #8727: apidoc: namespace module file is not generated if no submodules there

  • #741: autodoc: inherited-members doesn’t work for instance attributes on super class

  • #8592: autodoc: :meta public: does not effect to variables

  • #8594: autodoc: empty __all__ attribute is ignored

  • #8315: autodoc: Failed to resolve struct.Struct type annotation

  • #8652: autodoc: All variable comments in the module are ignored if the module contains invalid type comments

  • #8693: autodoc: Default values for overloaded functions are rendered as string

  • #8134: autodoc: crashes when mocked decorator takes arguments

  • #8800: autodoc: Uninitialized attributes in superclass are recognized as undocumented

  • #8655: autodoc: Failed to generate document if target module contains an object that raises an exception on hasattr()

  • #8306: autosummary: mocked modules are documented as empty page when using :recursive: option

  • #8232: graphviz: Image node is not rendered if graph file is in subdirectory

  • #8618: html: kbd role produces incorrect HTML when compound-key separators (-, + or ^) are used as keystrokes

  • #8629: html: A type warning for html_use_opensearch is shown twice

  • #8714: html: kbd role with "Caps Lock" rendered incorrectly

  • #8123: html search: fix searching for terms containing + (Requires a custom search language that does not split on +)

  • #8665: html theme: Could not override globaltoc_maxdepth in theme.conf

  • #8446: html: consecutive spaces are displayed as single space

  • #8745: i18n: crashes with KeyError when translation message adds a new auto footnote reference

  • #4304: linkcheck: Fix race condition that could lead to checking the availability of the same URL twice

  • #8791: linkcheck: The docname for each hyperlink is not displayed

  • #7118: sphinx-quickstart: questionnaire got Mojibake if libreadline unavailable

  • #8094: texinfo: image files on the different directory with document are not copied

  • #8782: todo: Cross references in todolist get broken

  • #8720: viewcode: module pages are generated for epub on incremental build

  • #8704: viewcode: anchors are generated in incremental build after singlehtml

  • #8756: viewcode: highlighted code is generated even if not referenced

  • #8671: highlight_options is not working

  • #8341: C, fix intersphinx lookup types for names in declarations.

  • C, C++: in general fix intersphinx and role lookup types.

  • #8683: html_last_updated_fmt does not support UTC offset (%z)

  • #8683: html_last_updated_fmt generates wrong time zone for %Z

  • #1112: download role creates duplicated copies when relative path is specified

  • #2616 (fifth item): LaTeX: footnotes from captions are not clickable, and for manually numbered footnotes only first one with same number is an hyperlink

  • #7576: LaTeX with French babel and memoir crash: "Illegal parameter number in definition of \FNH@prefntext"

  • #8055: LaTeX (docs): A potential display bug with the LaTeX generation step in Sphinx (how to generate one-column index)

  • #8072: LaTeX: Directive hlist not implemented in LaTeX

  • #8214: LaTeX: The index role and the glossary generate duplicate entries in the LaTeX index (if both used for same term)

  • #8735: LaTeX: wrong internal links in pdf to captioned code-blocks when numfig is not True

  • #8442: LaTeX: some indexed terms are ignored when using xelatex engine (or pdflatex and latex_use_xindy set to True) with memoir class

  • #8750: LaTeX: URLs as footnotes fail to show in PDF if originating from inside function type signatures

  • #8780: LaTeX: long words in narrow columns may not be hyphenated

  • #8788: LaTeX: \titleformat last argument in sphinx.sty should be bracketed, not braced (and is anyhow not needed)

  • #8849: LaTex: code-block printed out of margin (see the opt-in LaTeX syntax boolean verbatimforcewraps for use via the ‘sphinxsetup’ key of latex_elements)

  • #8183: LaTeX: Remove substitution_reference nodes from doctree only on LaTeX builds

  • #8865: LaTeX: Restructure the index nodes inside title nodes only on LaTeX builds

  • #8796: LaTeX: potentially critical low level TeX coding mistake has gone unnoticed so far

  • C, c:alias skip symbols without explicit declarations instead of crashing.

  • C, c:alias give a warning when the root symbol is not declared.

  • C, expr role should start symbol lookup in the current scope.

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