========== Sphinx 3.4

Release 3.4.3 (released Jan 08, 2021)

Bugs fixed

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

Release 3.4.2 (released Jan 04, 2021)

Bugs fixed

#8164: autodoc: Classes that inherit mocked class are not documented
#8602: autodoc: The autodoc-process-docstring event is emitted to the non-datadescriptors unexpectedly
#8616: autodoc: AttributeError is raised on non-class object is passed to autoclass directive

Release 3.4.1 (released Dec 25, 2020)

Bugs fixed

#8559: autodoc: AttributeError is raised when using forward-reference type annotations
#8568: autodoc: TypeError is raised on checking slots attribute
#8567: autodoc: Instance attributes are incorrectly added to Parent class
#8566: autodoc: The autodoc-process-docstring event is emitted to the alias classes unexpectedly
#8583: autodoc: Unnecessary object comparison via __eq__ method
#8565: linkcheck: Fix PriorityQueue crash when link tuples are not comparable

Release 3.4.0 (released Dec 20, 2020)

Incompatible changes

#8105: autodoc: the signature of class constructor will be shown for decorated classes, not a signature of decorator

Deprecated

The follow_wrapped argument of sphinx.util.inspect.signature()
The no_docstring argument of sphinx.ext.autodoc.Documenter.add_content()
sphinx.ext.autodoc.Documenter.get_object_members()
sphinx.ext.autodoc.DataDeclarationDocumenter
sphinx.ext.autodoc.GenericAliasDocumenter
sphinx.ext.autodoc.InstanceAttributeDocumenter
sphinx.ext.autodoc.SlotsAttributeDocumenter
sphinx.ext.autodoc.TypeVarDocumenter
sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer._getannotations()
sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer._getmro()
sphinx.pycode.ModuleAnalyzer.parse()
sphinx.util.osutil.movefile()
sphinx.util.requests.is_ssl_error()

Features added

#8119: autodoc: Allow to determine whether a member not included in __all__ attribute of the module should be documented or not via :event:autodoc-skip-member event
#8219: autodoc: Parameters for generic class are not shown when super class is a generic class and show-inheritance option is given (in Python 3.7 or above)
autodoc: Add Documenter.config as a shortcut to access the config object
autodoc: Add Optional[t] to annotation of function and method if a default value equal to None is set.
#8209: autodoc: Add :no-value: option to :rst:dir:autoattribute and :rst:dir:autodata directive to suppress the default value of the variable
#8460: autodoc: Support custom types defined by typing.NewType
#8285: napoleon: Add :confval:napoleon_attr_annotations to merge type hints on source code automatically if any type is specified in docstring
#8236: napoleon: Support numpydoc's "Receives" section
#6914: Add a new event :event:warn-missing-reference to custom warning messages when failed to resolve a cross-reference
#6914: Emit a detailed warning when failed to resolve a :ref: reference
#6629: linkcheck: The builder now handles rate limits. See :confval:linkcheck_rate_limit_timeout for details.

Bugs fixed

#7613: autodoc: autodoc does not respect signature of the class
#4606: autodoc: the location of the warning is incorrect for inherited method
#8105: autodoc: the signature of class constructor is incorrect if the class is decorated
#8434: autodoc: :confval:autodoc_type_aliases does not effect to variables and attributes
#8443: autodoc: autodata directive can't create document for PEP-526 based type annotated variables
#8443: autodoc: autoattribute directive can't create document for PEP-526 based uninitialized variables
#8480: autodoc: autoattribute could not create document for slots attributes
#8503: autodoc: autoattribute could not create document for a GenericAlias as class attributes correctly
#8534: autodoc: autoattribute could not create document for a commented attribute in alias class
#8452: autodoc: autodoc_type_aliases doesn't work when autodoc_typehints is set to "description"
#8541: autodoc: autodoc_type_aliases doesn't work for the type annotation to instance attributes
#8460: autodoc: autodata and autoattribute directives do not display type information of TypeVars
#8493: autodoc: references to builtins not working in class aliases
#8522: autodoc: __bool__ method could be called
#8067: autodoc: A typehint for the instance variable having type_comment on super class is not displayed
#8545: autodoc: a slots attribute is not documented even having docstring
#741: autodoc: inherited-members doesn't work for instance attributes on super class
#8477: autosummary: non utf-8 reST files are generated when template contains multibyte characters
#8501: autosummary: summary extraction splits text after "el at." unexpectedly
#8524: html: Wrong url_root has been generated on a document named "index"
#8419: html search: Do not load language_data.js in non-search pages
#8549: i18n: -D gettext_compact=0 is no longer working
#8454: graphviz: The layout option for graph and digraph directives don't work
#8131: linkcheck: Use GET when HEAD requests cause Too Many Redirects, to accommodate infinite redirect loops on HEAD
#8437: Makefile: make clean with empty BUILDDIR is dangerous
#8365: py domain: :type: and :rtype: gives false ambiguous class lookup warnings
#8352: std domain: Failed to parse an option that starts with bracket
#8519: LaTeX: Prevent page brake in the middle of a seealso
#8520: C, fix copying of AliasNode.