========== Sphinx 4.1

Release 4.1.2 (released Jul 27, 2021)

Incompatible changes

#9435: linkcheck: Disable checking automatically generated anchors on github.com (ex. anchors in reST/Markdown documents)

Bugs fixed

#9489: autodoc: Custom types using typing.NewType are not displayed well with the HEAD of 3.10
#9490: autodoc: Some objects under typing module are not displayed well with the HEAD of 3.10
#9436, #9471: autodoc: crashed if autodoc_class_signature = "separated"
#9456: html search: html_copy_source can't control the search summaries
#9500: LaTeX: Failed to build Japanese document on Windows
#9435: linkcheck: Failed to check anchors in github.com

Release 4.1.1 (released Jul 15, 2021)

Dependencies

#9434: sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp-2.0.0 or above
#9434: sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml-1.1.5 or above

Bugs fixed

#9438: html: HTML logo or Favicon specified as file not being found on output

Release 4.1.0 (released Jul 12, 2021)

Dependencies

Support jinja2-3.0

Deprecated

The app argument of sphinx.environment.BuildEnvironment becomes required
sphinx.application.Sphinx.html_theme
sphinx.ext.autosummary._app
sphinx.util.docstrings.extract_metadata()

Features added

#8107: autodoc: Add class-doc-from option to :rst:dir:autoclass directive to control the content of the specific class like :confval:autoclass_content
#8588: autodoc: :confval:autodoc_type_aliases now supports dotted name. It allows you to define an alias for a class with module name like foo.bar.BazClass
#9175: autodoc: Special member is not documented in the module
#9195: autodoc: The arguments of typing.Literal are wrongly rendered
#9185: autodoc: :confval:autodoc_typehints allows 'both' setting to allow typehints to be included both in the signature and description
#4257: autodoc: Add :confval:autodoc_class_signature to separate the class entry and the definition of __init__() method
#8061, #9218: autodoc: Support variable comment for alias classes
#3014: autodoc: Add :event:autodoc-process-bases to modify the base classes of the class definitions
#9272: autodoc: Render enum values for the default argument value better
#9384: autodoc: autodoc_typehints='none' now erases typehints for variables, attributes and properties
#3257: autosummary: Support instance attributes for classes
#9358: html: Add "heading" role to the toctree items
#9225: html: Add span tag to the return typehint of method/function
#9129: html search: Show search summaries when html_copy_source = False
#9307: html search: Prevent corrections and completions in search field
#9120: html theme: Eliminate prompt characters of code-block from copyable text
#9176: i18n: Emit a debug message if message catalog file not found under :confval:locale_dirs
#9414: LaTeX: Add xeCJKVerbAddon to default fvset config for Chinese documents
#9016: linkcheck: Support checking anchors on github.com
#9016: linkcheck: Add a new event :event:linkcheck-process-uri to modify URIs before checking hyperlinks
#6525: linkcheck: Add :confval:linkcheck_allowed_redirects to mark hyperlinks that are redirected to expected URLs as "working"
#1874: py domain: Support union types using | in info-field-list
#9268: py domain: :confval:python_use_unqualified_type_names supports type field in info-field-list
#9097: Optimize the parallel build
#9131: Add :confval:nitpick_ignore_regex to ignore nitpicky warnings using regular expressions
#9174: Add Sphinx.set_html_assets_policy to tell extensions to include HTML assets in all the pages. Extensions can check this via Sphinx.registry.html_assets_policy
C++, add support for
- inline variables,
- consteval functions,
- constinit variables,
- char8_t,
- explicit(<constant expression>) specifier,
- digit separators in literals, and
- constraints in placeholder type specifiers, aka. adjective syntax (e.g., Sortable auto &v).
C, add support for digit separators in literals.
#9166: LaTeX: support containers in LaTeX output

Bugs fixed

#8872: autodoc: stacked singledispatches are wrongly rendered
#8597: autodoc: a docsting having metadata only should be treated as undocumented
#9185: autodoc: typehints for overloaded functions and methods are inaccurate
#9250: autodoc: The inherited method not having docstring is wrongly parsed
#9283: autodoc: autoattribute directive failed to generate document for an attribute not having any comment
#9364: autodoc: single element tuple on the default argument value is wrongly rendered
#9362: autodoc: AttributeError is raised on processing a subclass of Tuple[()]
#9404: autodoc: TypeError is raised on processing dict-like object (not a class) via autoclass directive
#9317: html: Pushing left key causes visiting the next page at the first page
#9381: html: URL for html_favicon and html_log does not work
#9270: html theme : pyramid theme generates incorrect logo links
#9217: manpage: The name of manpage directory that is generated by :confval:man_make_section_directory is not correct
#9350: manpage: Fix font isn't reset after keyword at the top of samp role
#9306: Linkcheck reports broken link when remote server closes the connection on HEAD request
#9280: py domain: "exceptions" module is not displayed
#9418: py domain: a Callable annotation with no parameters (e.g. Callable[[], None]) will be rendered with a bracket missing (Callable[], None])
#9319: quickstart: Make sphinx-quickstart exit when conf.py already exists
#9387: xml: XML Builder ignores custom visitors
#9224: :param: and :type: fields does not support a type containing whitespace (ex. Dict[str, str])
#8945: when transforming typed fields, call the specified role instead of making an single xref. For C and C++, use the expr role for typed fields.