========== Sphinx 4.0

Release 4.0.3 (released Jul 05, 2021)

Features added

C, add C23 keywords _Decimal32, _Decimal64, and _Decimal128.
#9354: C, add :confval:c_extra_keywords to allow user-defined keywords during parsing.
Revert the removal of sphinx.util:force_decode() to become some 3rd party extensions available again during 5.0

Bugs fixed

#9330: changeset domain: :rst:dir:versionchanged with contents being a list will cause error during pdf build
#9313: LaTeX: complex table with merged cells broken since 4.0
#9305: LaTeX: backslash may cause Improper discretionary list pdf build error with Japanese engines
#9354: C, remove special macro names from the keyword list. See also :confval:c_extra_keywords.
#9322: KeyError is raised on PropagateDescDomain transform

Release 4.0.2 (released May 20, 2021)

Dependencies

#9216: Support jinja2-3.0

Incompatible changes

#9222: Update Underscore.js to 1.13.1
#9217: manpage: Stop creating a section directory on build manpage by default (see :confval:man_make_section_directory)

Bugs fixed

#9210: viewcode: crashed if non importable modules found on parallel build
#9240: Unknown node error for pending_xref_condition is raised if an extension that does not support the node installs a missing-reference handler

Release 4.0.1 (released May 11, 2021)

Bugs fixed

#9189: autodoc: crashed when ValueError is raised on generating signature from a property of the class
#9188: autosummary: warning is emitted if list value is set to autosummary_generate
#8380: html search: tags for search result are broken
#9198: i18n: Babel emits errors when running compile_catalog
#9205: py domain: The :canonical: option causes "more than one target for cross-reference" warning
#9201: websupport: UndefinedError is raised: 'css_tag' is undefined

Release 4.0.0 (released May 09, 2021)

Dependencies

4.0.0b1

Drop python 3.5 support
Drop Docutils 0.12 and 0.13 support
LaTeX: add tex-gyre font dependency

4.0.0b2

Support Docutils 0.17. Please notice it changes the output of HTML builder. Some themes do not support it, and you need to update your custom CSS to upgrade it.

Incompatible changes

4.0.0b1

#8539: autodoc: info-field-list is generated into the class description when :confval:autodoc_typehints\ ='description' and :confval:autoclass_content\ ='class' set
#8898: extlinks: "%s" becomes required keyword in the link caption string
domain: The Index class becomes subclasses of abc.ABC to indicate methods that must be overridden in the concrete classes
#4826: py domain: The structure of python objects is changed. A boolean value is added to indicate that the python object is canonical one
#7425: MathJax: The MathJax was changed from 2 to 3. Users using a custom MathJax configuration may have to set the old MathJax path or update their configuration for version 3. See :mod:sphinx.ext.mathjax.
#7784: i18n: The msgid for alt text of image is changed
#5560: napoleon: :confval:napoleon_use_param also affect "other parameters" section
#7996: manpage: Make a section directory on build manpage by default (see :confval:man_make_section_directory)
#7849: html: Change the default setting of :confval:html_codeblock_linenos_style to 'inline'
#8380: html search: search results are wrapped with <p> instead of <div>
html theme: Move a script tag for documentation_options.js in basic/layout.html to script_files variable
html theme: Move CSS tags in basic/layout.html to css_files variable
#8915: html theme: Emit a warning for sphinx_rtd_theme 0.2.4 or older
#8508: LaTeX: uplatex becomes a default setting of latex_engine for Japanese documents
#5977: py domain: :var:, :cvar: and :ivar: fields do not create cross-references
#4550: The align attribute of figure and table nodes becomes None by default instead of 'default'
#8769: LaTeX refactoring: split sphinx.sty into multiple files and rename some auxiliary files created in latex build output repertory
#8937: Use explicit title instead of <no title>
#8487: The :file: option for csv-table directive now recognizes an absolute path as a relative path from source directory

4.0.0b2

#9023: Change the CSS classes on :rst:role:cpp:expr and :rst:role:cpp:texpr.

Deprecated

:confval:html_codeblock_linenos_style
favicon and logo variable in HTML templates
sphinx.directives.patches.CSVTable
sphinx.directives.patches.ListTable
sphinx.directives.patches.RSTTable
sphinx.ext.autodoc.directive.DocumenterBridge.filename_set
sphinx.ext.autodoc.directive.DocumenterBridge.warn()
sphinx.registry.SphinxComponentRegistry.get_source_input()
sphinx.registry.SphinxComponentRegistry.source_inputs
sphinx.transforms.FigureAligner
sphinx.util.pycompat.convert_with_2to3()
sphinx.util.pycompat.execfile_()
sphinx.util.smartypants
sphinx.util.typing.DirectiveOption

Features added

4.0.0b1

#8924: autodoc: Support bound argument for TypeVar
#7383: autodoc: Support typehints for properties
#5603: autodoc: Allow to refer to a python class using its canonical name when the class has two different names; a canonical name and an alias name
#8539: autodoc: Add :confval:autodoc_typehints_description_target to control the behavior of autodoc_typehints=description
#8841: autodoc: :confval:autodoc_docstring_signature will continue to look for multiple signature lines without backslash character
#7549: autosummary: Enable :confval:autosummary_generate by default
#8898: extlinks: Allow %s in link caption string
#4826: py domain: Add :canonical: option to python directives to describe the location where the object is defined
#7199: py domain: Add :confval:python_use_unqualified_type_names to suppress the module name of the python reference if it can be resolved (experimental)
#7068: py domain: Add :rst:dir:py:property directive to describe a property
#7784: i18n: The alt text for image is translated by default (without :confval:gettext_additional_targets setting)
#2018: html: :confval:html_favicon and :confval:html_logo now accept URL for the image
#8070: html search: Support searching for 2characters word
#9036: html theme: Allow to inherite the search page
#8938: imgconverter: Show the error of the command availability check
#7830: Add debug logs for change detection of sources and templates
#8201: Emit a warning if toctree contains duplicated entries
#8326: master_doc is now renamed to :confval:root_doc
#8942: C++, add support for the C++20 spaceship operator, <=>.
#7199: A new node, sphinx.addnodes.pending_xref_condition has been added. It can be used to choose appropriate content of the reference by conditions.

4.0.0b2

#8818: autodoc: Super class having Any arguments causes nitpicky warning
#9095: autodoc: TypeError is raised on processing broken metaclass
#9110: autodoc: metadata of GenericAlias is not rendered as a reference in py37+
#9098: html: copy-range protection for doctests doesn't work in Safari
#9103: LaTeX: imgconverter: conversion runs even if not needed
#8127: py domain: Ellipsis in info-field-list causes nitpicky warning
#9121: py domain: duplicated warning is emitted when both canonical and its alias objects are defined on the document
#9023: More CSS classes on domain descriptions, see :ref:nodes for details.
#8195: mathjax: Rename :confval:mathjax_config to :confval:mathjax2_config and add :confval:mathjax3_config

Bugs fixed

4.0.0b1

#8917: autodoc: Raises a warning if function has wrong globals value
#8415: autodoc: a TypeVar imported from other module is not resolved (in Python 3.7 or above)
#8992: autodoc: Failed to resolve types.TracebackType type annotation
#8905: html: html_add_permalinks=None and html_add_permalinks="" are ignored
#8380: html search: Paragraphs in search results are not identified as <p>
#8915: html theme: The translation of sphinx_rtd_theme does not work
#8342: Emit a warning if a unknown domain is given for directive or role (ex. :unknown:doc:)
#7241: LaTeX: No wrapping for cpp:enumerator
#8711: LaTeX: backticks in code-blocks trigger latexpdf build warning (and font change) with late TeXLive 2019
#8253: LaTeX: Figures with no size defined get overscaled (compared to images with size explicitly set in pixels) (fixed for 'pdflatex'/'lualatex' only)
#8881: LaTeX: The depth of bookmarks panel in PDF is not enough for navigation
#8874: LaTeX: the fix to two minor Pygments LaTeXFormatter output issues ignore Pygments style
#8925: LaTeX: 3.5.0 verbatimmaxunderfull setting does not work as expected
#8980: LaTeX: missing line break in \pysigline
#8995: LaTeX: legacy \pysiglinewithargsret does not compute correctly available horizontal space and should use a ragged right style
#9009: LaTeX: "release" value with underscore leads to invalid LaTeX
#8911: C++: remove the longest matching prefix in :confval:cpp_index_common_prefix instead of the first that matches.
C, properly reject function declarations when a keyword is used as parameter name.
#8933: viewcode: Failed to create back-links on parallel build
#8960: C and C++, fix rendering of (member) function pointer types in function parameter lists.
C++, fix linking of names in array declarators, pointer to member (function) declarators, and in the argument to sizeof....
C, fix linking of names in array declarators.

4.0.0b2

C, C++, fix KeyError when an alias directive is the first C/C++ directive in a file with another C/C++ directive later.

4.0.0b3

#9167: html: Failed to add CSS files to the specific page