Changes in Sphinx¶

Release 1.2 (in development)¶

Release 1.1 (Oct 9, 2011)¶

Incompatible changes¶

The py:module directive doesn’t output its platform option value anymore. (It was the only thing that the directive did output, and therefore quite inconsistent.)
Removed support for old dependency versions; requirements are now:
- Pygments >= 1.2
- Docutils >= 0.7
- Jinja2 >= 2.3

Features added¶

Added Python 3.x support.
New builders and subsystems:
- Added a Texinfo builder.
- Added i18n support for content, a gettext builder and related utilities.
- Added the websupport library and builder.
- #98: Added a sphinx-apidoc script that autogenerates a hierarchy of source files containing autodoc directives to document modules and packages.
- #273: Add an API for adding full-text search support for languages other than English. Add support for Japanese.
Markup:
- #138: Added an index role, to make inline index entries.
- #454: Added more index markup capabilities: marking see/seealso entries, and main entries for a given key.
- #460: Allowed limiting the depth of section numbers for HTML using the toctree‘s numbered option.
- #586: Implemented improved glossary markup which allows multiple terms per definition.
- #478: Added py:decorator directive to describe decorators.
- C++ domain now supports array definitions.
- C++ domain now supports doc fields (:param x: inside directives).
- Section headings in only directives are now correctly handled.
- Added emphasize-lines option to source code directives.
- #678: C++ domain now supports superclasses.
HTML builder:
- Added pyramid theme.
- #559: html_add_permalinks is now a string giving the text to display in permalinks.
- #259: HTML table rows now have even/odd CSS classes to enable “Zebra styling”.
- #554: Add theme option sidebarwidth to the basic theme.
Other builders:
- #516: Added new value of the latex_show_urls option to show the URLs in footnotes.
- #209: Added text_newlines and text_sectionchars config values.
- Added man_show_urls config value.
- #472: linkcheck builder: Check links in parallel, use HTTP HEAD requests and allow configuring the timeout. New config values: linkcheck_timeout and linkcheck_workers.
- #521: Added linkcheck_ignore config value.
- #28: Support row/colspans in tables in the LaTeX builder.
Configuration and extensibility:
- #537: Added nitpick_ignore.
- #306: Added env-get-outdated event.
- Application.add_stylesheet() now accepts full URIs.
Autodoc:
- #564: Add autodoc_docstring_signature. When enabled (the default), autodoc retrieves the signature from the first line of the docstring, if it is found there.
- #176: Provide private-members option for autodoc directives.
- #520: Provide special-members option for autodoc directives.
- #431: Doc comments for attributes can now be given on the same line as the assignment.
- #437: autodoc now shows values of class data attributes.
- autodoc now supports documenting the signatures of functools.partial objects.
Other extensions:
- Added the sphinx.ext.mathjax extension.
- #443: Allow referencing external graphviz files.
- Added inline option to graphviz directives, and fixed the default (block-style) in LaTeX output.
- #590: Added caption option to graphviz directives.
- #553: Added testcleanup blocks in the doctest extension.
- #594: trim_doctest_flags now also removes <BLANKLINE> indicators.
- #367: Added automatic exclusion of hidden members in inheritance diagrams, and an option to selectively enable it.
- Added pngmath_add_tooltips.
- The math extension displaymath directives now support name in addition to label for giving the equation label, for compatibility with Docutils.
New locales:
- #221: Added Swedish locale.
- #526: Added Iranian locale.
- #694: Added Latvian locale.
- Added Nepali locale.
- #714: Added Korean locale.
- #766: Added Estonian locale.

Release 1.0.9 (in development)¶

#778: Fix “hide search matches” link on pages linked by search.
Fix the source positions referenced by the “viewcode” extension.

Release 1.0.8 (Sep 23, 2011)¶

#627: Fix tracebacks for AttributeErrors in autosummary generation.
Fix the abbr role when the abbreviation has newlines in it.
#727: Fix the links to search results with custom object types.
#648: Fix line numbers reported in warnings about undefined references.
#696, #666: Fix C++ array definitions and template arguments that are not type names.
#633: Allow footnotes in section headers in LaTeX output.
#616: Allow keywords to be linked via intersphinx.
#613: Allow Unicode characters in production list token names.
#720: Add dummy visitors for graphviz nodes for text and man.
#704: Fix image file duplication bug.
#677: Fix parsing of multiple signatures in C++ domain.
#637: Ignore Emacs lock files when looking for source files.
#544: Allow .pyw extension for importable modules in autodoc.
#700: Use $(MAKE) in quickstart-generated Makefiles.
#734: Make sidebar search box width consistent in browsers.
#644: Fix spacing of centered figures in HTML output.
#767: Safely encode SphinxError messages when printing them to sys.stderr.
#611: Fix LaTeX output error with a document with no sections but a link target.
Correctly treat built-in method descriptors as methods in autodoc.
#706: Stop monkeypatching the Python textwrap module.
#657: viewcode now works correctly with source files that have non-ASCII encoding.
#669: Respect the noindex flag option in py:module directives.
#675: Fix IndexErrors when including nonexisting lines with literalinclude.
#676: Respect custom function/method parameter separator strings.
#682: Fix JS incompatibility with jQuery >= 1.5.
#693: Fix double encoding done when writing HTMLHelp .hhk files.
#647: Do not apply SmartyPants in parsed-literal blocks.
C++ domain now supports array definitions.

Release 1.0.7 (Jan 15, 2011)¶

#347: Fix wrong generation of directives of static methods in autosummary.
#599: Import PIL as from PIL import Image.
#558: Fix longtables with captions in LaTeX output.
Make token references work as hyperlinks again in LaTeX output.
#572: Show warnings by default when reference labels cannot be found.
#536: Include line number when complaining about missing reference targets in nitpicky mode.
#590: Fix inline display of graphviz diagrams in LaTeX output.
#589: Build using app.build() in setup command.
Fix a bug in the inheritance diagram exception that caused base classes to be skipped if one of them is a builtin.
Fix general index links for C++ domain objects.
#332: Make admonition boundaries in LaTeX output visible.
#573: Fix KeyErrors occurring on rebuild after removing a file.
Fix a traceback when removing files with globbed toctrees.
If an autodoc object cannot be imported, always re-read the document containing the directive on next build.
If an autodoc object cannot be imported, show the full traceback of the import error.
Fix a bug where the removal of download files and images wasn’t noticed.
#571: Implement ~ cross-reference prefix for the C domain.
Fix regression of LaTeX output with the fix of #556.
#568: Fix lookup of class attribute documentation on descriptors so that comment documentation now works.
Fix traceback with only directives preceded by targets.
Fix tracebacks occurring for duplicate C++ domain objects.
Fix JavaScript domain links to objects with $ in their name.

Release 1.0.6 (Jan 04, 2011)¶

#581: Fix traceback in Python domain for empty cross-reference targets.
#283: Fix literal block display issues on Chrome browsers.
#383, #148: Support sorting a limited range of accented characters in the general index and the glossary.
#570: Try decoding -D and -A command-line arguments with the locale’s preferred encoding.
#528: Observe locale_dirs when looking for the JS translations file.
#574: Add special code for better support of Japanese documents in the LaTeX builder.
Regression of #77: If there is only one parameter given with :param: markup, the bullet list is now suppressed again.
#556: Fix missing paragraph breaks in LaTeX output in certain situations.
#567: Emit the autodoc-process-docstring event even for objects without a docstring so that it can add content.
#565: In the LaTeX builder, not only literal blocks require different table handling, but also quite a few other list-like block elements.
#515: Fix tracebacks in the viewcode extension for Python objects that do not have a valid signature.
Fix strange reportings of line numbers for warnings generated from autodoc-included docstrings, due to different behavior depending on docutils version.
Several fixes to the C++ domain.

Release 1.0.5 (Nov 12, 2010)¶

#557: Add CSS styles required by docutils 0.7 for aligned images and figures.
In the Makefile generated by LaTeX output, do not delete pdf files on clean; they might be required images.
#535: Fix LaTeX output generated for line blocks.
#544: Allow .pyw as a source file extension.

Release 1.0.4 (Sep 17, 2010)¶

#524: Open intersphinx inventories in binary mode on Windows, since version 2 contains zlib-compressed data.
#513: Allow giving non-local URIs for JavaScript files, e.g. in the JSMath extension.
#512: Fix traceback when intersphinx_mapping is empty.

Release 1.0.3 (Aug 23, 2010)¶

#495: Fix internal vs. external link distinction for links coming from a docutils table-of-contents.
#494: Fix the maxdepth option for the toctree() template callable when used with collapse=True.
#507: Fix crash parsing Python argument lists containing brackets in string literals.
#501: Fix regression when building LaTeX docs with figures that don’t have captions.
#510: Fix inheritance diagrams for classes that are not picklable.
#497: Introduce separate background color for the sidebar collapse button, making it easier to see.
#502, #503, #496: Fix small layout bugs in several builtin themes.

Release 1.0.2 (Aug 14, 2010)¶

#490: Fix cross-references to objects of types added by the add_object_type() API function.
Fix handling of doc field types for different directive types.
Allow breaking long signatures, continuing with backlash-escaped newlines.
Fix unwanted styling of C domain references (because of a namespace clash with Pygments styles).
Allow references to PEPs and RFCs with explicit anchors.
#471: Fix LaTeX references to figures.
#482: When doing a non-exact search, match only the given type of object.
#481: Apply non-exact search for Python reference targets with .name for modules too.
#484: Fix crash when duplicating a parameter in an info field list.
#487: Fix setting the default role to one provided by the oldcmarkup extension.
#488: Fix crash when json-py is installed, which provides a json module but is incompatible to simplejson.
#480: Fix handling of target naming in intersphinx.
#486: Fix removal of ! for all cross-reference roles.

Release 1.0.1 (Jul 27, 2010)¶

#470: Fix generated target names for reST domain objects; they are not in the same namespace.
#266: Add Bengali language.
#473: Fix a bug in parsing JavaScript object names.
#474: Fix building with SingleHTMLBuilder when there is no toctree.
Fix display names for objects linked to by intersphinx with explicit targets.
Fix building with the JSON builder.
Fix hyperrefs in object descriptions for LaTeX.

Release 1.0 (Jul 23, 2010)¶

Incompatible changes¶

Support for domains has been added. A domain is a collection of directives and roles that all describe objects belonging together, e.g. elements of a programming language. A few builtin domains are provided:
- Python
- C
- C++
- JavaScript
- reStructuredText
The old markup for defining and linking to C directives is now deprecated. It will not work anymore in future versions without activating the oldcmarkup extension; in Sphinx 1.0, it is activated by default.
Removed support for old dependency versions; requirements are now:
- docutils >= 0.5
- Jinja2 >= 2.2
Removed deprecated elements:
- exclude_dirs config value
- sphinx.builder module

Features added¶

General:
- Added a “nitpicky” mode that emits warnings for all missing references. It is activated by the -n command-line switch or the nitpicky config value.
- Added latexpdf target in quickstart Makefile.
Markup:
- The menuselection and guilabel roles now support ampersand accelerators.
- New more compact doc field syntax is now recognized: :param type name: description.
- Added tab-width option to literalinclude directive.
- Added titlesonly option to toctree directive.
- Added the prepend and append options to the literalinclude directive.
- #284: All docinfo metadata is now put into the document metadata, not just the author.
- The ref role can now also reference tables by caption.
- The include directive now supports absolute paths, which are interpreted as relative to the source directory.
- In the Python domain, references like :func:`.name` now look for matching names with any prefix if no direct match is found.
Configuration:
- Added rst_prolog config value.
- Added html_secnumber_suffix config value to control section numbering format.
- Added html_compact_lists config value to control docutils’ compact lists feature.
- The html_sidebars config value can now contain patterns as keys, and the values can be lists that explicitly select which sidebar templates should be rendered. That means that the builtin sidebar contents can be included only selectively.
- html_static_path can now contain single file entries.
- The new universal config value exclude_patterns makes the old unused_docs, exclude_trees and exclude_dirnames obsolete.
- Added html_output_encoding config value.
- Added the latex_docclass config value and made the “twoside” documentclass option overridable by “oneside”.
- Added the trim_doctest_flags config value, which is true by default.
- Added html_show_copyright config value.
- Added latex_show_pagerefs and latex_show_urls config values.
- The behavior of html_file_suffix changed slightly: the empty string now means “no suffix” instead of “default suffix”, use None for “default suffix”.
New builders:
- Added a builder for the Epub format.
- Added a builder for manual pages.
- Added a single-file HTML builder.
HTML output:
- Inline roles now get a CSS class with their name, allowing styles to customize their appearance. Domain-specific roles get two classes, domain and domain-rolename.
- References now get the class internal if they are internal to the whole project, as opposed to internal to the current page.
- External references can be styled differently with the new externalrefs theme option for the default theme.
- In the default theme, the sidebar can experimentally now be made collapsible using the new collapsiblesidebar theme option.
- #129: Toctrees are now wrapped in a div tag with class toctree-wrapper in HTML output.
- The toctree callable in templates now has a maxdepth keyword argument to control the depth of the generated tree.
- The toctree callable in templates now accepts a titles_only keyword argument.
- Added htmltitle block in layout template.
- In the JavaScript search, allow searching for object names including the module name, like sys.argv.
- Added new theme haiku, inspired by the Haiku OS user guide.
- Added new theme nature.
- Added new theme agogo, created by Andi Albrecht.
- Added new theme scrolls, created by Armin Ronacher.
- #193: Added a visitedlinkcolor theme option to the default theme.
- #322: Improved responsiveness of the search page by loading the search index asynchronously.
Extension API:
- Added html-collect-pages.
- Added needs_sphinx config value and require_sphinx() application API method.
- #200: Added add_stylesheet() application API method.
Extensions:
- Added the viewcode extension.
- Added the extlinks extension.
- Added support for source ordering of members in autodoc, with autodoc_member_order = 'bysource'.
- Added autodoc_default_flags config value, which can be used to select default flags for all autodoc directives.
- Added a way for intersphinx to refer to named labels in other projects, and to specify the project you want to link to.
- #280: Autodoc can now document instance attributes assigned in __init__ methods.
- Many improvements and fixes to the autosummary extension, thanks to Pauli Virtanen.
- #309: The graphviz extension can now output SVG instead of PNG images, controlled by the graphviz_output_format config value.
- Added alt option to graphviz extension directives.
- Added exclude argument to autodoc.between().
Translations:
- Added Croatian translation, thanks to Bojan Mihelač.
- Added Turkish translation, thanks to Firat Ozgul.
- Added Catalan translation, thanks to Pau Fernández.
- Added simplified Chinese translation.
- Added Danish translation, thanks to Hjorth Larsen.
- Added Lithuanian translation, thanks to Dalius Dobravolskas.
Bugs fixed:
- #445: Fix links to result pages when using the search function of HTML built with the dirhtml builder.
- #444: In templates, properly re-escape values treated with the “striptags” Jinja filter.

Release 0.6.7 (Jun 05, 2010)¶

#440: Remove usage of a Python >= 2.5 API in the literalinclude directive.
Fix a bug that prevented some references being generated in the LaTeX builder.
#428: Add some missing CSS styles for standard docutils classes.
#432: Fix UnicodeErrors while building LaTeX in translated locale.

Release 0.6.6 (May 25, 2010)¶

Handle raw nodes in the text writer.
Fix a problem the Qt help project generated by the qthelp builder that would lead to no content being displayed in the Qt Assistant.
#393: Fix the usage of Unicode characters in mathematic formulas when using the pngmath extension.
#404: Make \and work properly in the author field of the latex_documents setting.
#409: Make the highlight_language config value work properly in the LaTeX builder.
#418: Allow relocation of the translation JavaScript files to the system directory on Unix systems.
#414: Fix handling of Windows newlines in files included with the literalinclude directive.
#377: Fix crash in linkcheck builder.
#387: Fix the display of search results in dirhtml output.
#376: In autodoc, fix display of parameter defaults containing backslashes.
#370: Fix handling of complex list item labels in LaTeX output.
#374: Make the doctest_path config value of the doctest extension actually work.
Fix the handling of multiple toctrees when creating the global TOC for the toctree() template function.
Fix the handling of hidden toctrees when creating the global TOC for the toctree() template function.
Fix the handling of nested lists in the text writer.
#362: In autodoc, check for the existence of __self__ on function objects before accessing it.
#353: Strip leading and trailing whitespace when extracting search words in the search function.

Release 0.6.5 (Mar 01, 2010)¶

In autodoc, fix the omission of some module members explicitly documented using documentation comments.
#345: Fix cropping of sidebar scroll bar with stickysidebar option of the default theme.
#341: Always generate UNIX newlines in the quickstart Makefile.
#338: Fix running with -C under Windows.
In autodoc, allow customizing the signature of an object where the built-in mechanism fails.
#331: Fix output for enumerated lists with start values in LaTeX.
Make the start-after and end-before options to the literalinclude directive work correctly if not used together.
#321: Fix link generation in the LaTeX builder.

Release 0.6.4 (Jan 12, 2010)¶

Improve the handling of non-Unicode strings in the configuration.
#316: Catch OSErrors occurring when calling graphviz with arguments it doesn’t understand.
Restore compatibility with Pygments >= 1.2.
#295: Fix escaping of hyperref targets in LaTeX output.
#302: Fix links generated by the :doc: role for LaTeX output.
#286: collect todo nodes after the whole document has been read; this allows placing substitution references in todo items.
#294: do not ignore an explicit today config value in a LaTeX build.
The alt text of inheritance diagrams is now much cleaner.
Ignore images in section titles when generating link captions.
#310: support exception messages in the testoutput blocks of the doctest extension.
#293: line blocks are styled properly in HTML output.
#285: make the locale_dirs config value work again.
#303: html_context values given on the command line via -A should not override other values given in conf.py.
Fix a bug preventing incremental rebuilds for the dirhtml builder.
#299: Fix the mangling of quotes in some literal blocks.
#292: Fix path to the search index for the dirhtml builder.
Fix a Jython compatibility issue: make the dependence on the parser module optional.
#238: In autodoc, catch all errors that occur on module import, not just ImportError.
Fix the handling of non-data, but non-method descriptors in autodoc.
When copying file times, ignore OSErrors raised by os.utime().

Release 0.6.3 (Sep 03, 2009)¶

Properly add C module filenames as dependencies in autodoc.
#253: Ignore graphviz directives without content instead of raising an unhandled exception.
#241: Fix a crash building LaTeX output for documents that contain a todolist directive.
#252: Make it easier to change the build dir in the Makefiles generated by quickstart.
#220: Fix CSS so that displaymath really is centered.
#222: Allow the “Footnotes” header to be translated.
#225: Don’t add whitespace in generated HTML after inline tags.
#227: Make literalinclude work when the document’s path name contains non-ASCII characters.
#229: Fix autodoc failures with members that raise errors on getattr().
#205: When copying files, don’t copy full stat info, only modification times.
#232: Support non-ASCII metadata in Qt help builder.
Properly format bullet lists nested in definition lists for LaTeX.
Section titles are now allowed inside only directives.
#201: Make centered directive work in LaTeX output.
#206: Refuse to overwrite an existing master document in sphinx-quickstart.
#208: Use MS-sanctioned locale settings, determined by the language config option, in the HTML help builder.
#210: Fix nesting of HTML tags for displayed math from pngmath extension.
#213: Fix centering of images in LaTeX output.
#211: Fix compatibility with docutils 0.5.

Release 0.6.2 (Jun 16, 2009)¶

#130: Fix obscure IndexError in doctest extension.
#167: Make glossary sorting case-independent.
#196: Add a warning if an extension module doesn’t have a setup() function.
#158: Allow ‘..’ in template names, and absolute template paths; Jinja 2 by default disables both.
When highlighting Python code, ignore extra indentation before trying to parse it as Python.
#191: Don’t escape the tilde in URIs in LaTeX.
Don’t consider contents of source comments for the search index.
Set the default encoding to utf-8-sig to handle files with a UTF-8 BOM correctly.
#178: apply add_function_parentheses config value to C functions as promised.
#173: Respect the docutils title directive.
#172: The obj role now links to modules as promised.
#19: Tables now can have a “longtable” class, in order to get correctly broken into pages in LaTeX output.
Look for Sphinx message catalogs in the system default path before trying sphinx/locale.
Fix the search for methods via “classname.methodname”.
#155: Fix Python 2.4 compatibility: exceptions are old-style classes there.
#150: Fix display of the “sphinxdoc” theme on Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7.
#146: Don’t fail to generate LaTeX when the user has an active .docutils configuration.
#29: Don’t generate visible “-{-}” in option lists in LaTeX.
Fix cross-reference roles when put into substitutions.
Don’t put image “alt” text into table-of-contents entries.
In the LaTeX writer, do not raise an exception on too many section levels, just use the “subparagraph” level for all of them.
#145: Fix autodoc problem with automatic members that refuse to be getattr()’d from their parent.
If specific filenames to build are given on the command line, check that they are within the source directory.
Fix autodoc crash for objects without a __name__.
Fix intersphinx for installations without urllib2.HTTPSHandler.
#134: Fix pending_xref leftover nodes when using the todolist directive from the todo extension.

Release 0.6.1 (Mar 26, 2009)¶

#135: Fix problems with LaTeX output and the graphviz extension.
#132: Include the autosummary “module” template in the distribution.

Release 0.6 (Mar 24, 2009)¶

New features added¶

Incompatible changes:
- Templating now requires the Jinja2 library, which is an enhanced version of the old Jinja1 engine. Since the syntax and semantic is largely the same, very few fixes should be necessary in custom templates.
- The “document” div tag has been moved out of the layout.html template’s “document” block, because the closing tag was already outside. If you overwrite this block, you need to remove your “document” div tag as well.
- The autodoc_skip_member event now also gets to decide whether to skip members whose name starts with underscores. Previously, these members were always automatically skipped. Therefore, if you handle this event, add something like this to your event handler to restore the old behavior:
```
if name.startswith('_'):
    return True
```
Theming support, see the new section in the documentation.
Markup:
- Due to popular demand, added a :doc: role which directly links to another document without the need of creating a label to which a :ref: could link to.
- #4: Added a :download: role that marks a non-document file for inclusion into the HTML output and links to it.
- Added an only directive that can selectively include text based on enabled “tags”. Tags can be given on the command line. Also, the current builder output format (e.g. “html” or “latex”) is always a defined tag.
- #10: Added HTML section numbers, enabled by giving a :numbered: flag to the toctree directive.
- #114: Added an abbr role to markup abbreviations and acronyms.
- The literalinclude directive now supports several more options, to include only parts of a file.
- The toctree directive now supports a :hidden: flag, which will prevent links from being generated in place of the directive – this allows you to define your document structure, but place the links yourself.
- #123: The glossary directive now supports a :sorted: flag that sorts glossary entries alphabetically.
- Paths to images, literal include files and download files can now be absolute (like /images/foo.png). They are treated as relative to the top source directory.
- #52: There is now a hlist directive, creating a compact list by placing distributing items into multiple columns.
- #77: If a description environment with info field list only contains one :param: entry, no bullet list is generated.
- #6: Don’t generate redundant <ul> for top-level TOC tree items, which leads to a visual separation of TOC entries.
- #23: Added a classmethod directive along with method and staticmethod.
- Scaled images now get a link to the unscaled version.
- SVG images are now supported in HTML (via <object> and <embed> tags).
- Added a toctree callable to the templates, and the ability to include external links in toctrees. The ‘collapse’ keyword argument indicates whether or not to only display subitems of the current page. (Defaults to True.)
Configuration:
- The new config value rst_epilog can contain reST that is appended to each source file that is read. This is the right place for global substitutions.
- The new html_add_permalinks config value can be used to switch off the generated “paragraph sign” permalinks for each heading and definition environment.
- The new html_show_sourcelink config value can be used to switch off the links to the reST sources in the sidebar.
- The default value for htmlhelp_basename is now the project title, cleaned up as a filename.
- The new modindex_common_prefix config value can be used to ignore certain package names for module index sorting.
- The new trim_footnote_reference_space config value mirrors the docutils config value of the same name and removes the space before a footnote reference that is necessary for reST to recognize the reference.
- The new latex_additional_files config value can be used to copy files (that Sphinx doesn’t copy automatically, e.g. if they are referenced in custom LaTeX added in latex_elements) to the build directory.
Builders:
- The HTML builder now stores a small file named .buildinfo in its output directory. It stores a hash of config values that can be used to determine if a full rebuild needs to be done (e.g. after changing html_theme).
- New builder for Qt help collections, by Antonio Valentino.
- The new DirectoryHTMLBuilder (short name dirhtml) creates a separate directory for every page, and places the page there in a file called index.html. Therefore, page URLs and links don’t need to contain .html.
- The new html_link_suffix config value can be used to select the suffix of generated links between HTML files.
- #96: The LaTeX builder now supports figures wrapped by text, when using the figwidth option and right/left alignment.
New translations:
- Italian by Sandro Dentella.
- Ukrainian by Petro Sasnyk.
- Finnish by Jukka Inkeri.
- Russian by Alexander Smishlajev.
Extensions and API:
- New graphviz extension to embed graphviz graphs.
- New inheritance_diagram extension to embed... inheritance diagrams!
- New autosummary extension that generates summaries of modules and automatic documentation of modules.
- Autodoc now has a reusable Python API, which can be used to create custom types of objects to auto-document (e.g. Zope interfaces). See also Sphinx.add_autodocumenter().
- Autodoc now handles documented attributes.
- Autodoc now handles inner classes and their methods.
- Autodoc can document classes as functions now if explicitly marked with autofunction.
- Autodoc can now exclude single members from documentation via the exclude-members option.
- Autodoc can now order members either alphabetically (like previously) or by member type; configurable either with the config value autodoc_member_order or a member-order option per directive.
- The function Sphinx.add_directive() now also supports docutils 0.5-style directive classes. If they inherit from sphinx.util.compat.Directive, they also work with docutils 0.4.
- There is now a Sphinx.add_lexer() method to be able to use custom Pygments lexers easily.
- There is now Sphinx.add_generic_role() to mirror the docutils’ own function.
Other changes:
- Config overrides for single dict keys can now be given on the command line.
- There is now a doctest_global_setup config value that can be used to give setup code for all doctests in the documentation.
- Source links in HTML are now generated with rel="nofollow".
- Quickstart can now generate a Windows make.bat file.
- #62: There is now a -w option for sphinx-build that writes warnings to a file, in addition to stderr.
- There is now a -W option for sphinx-build that turns warnings into errors.

Release 0.5.2 (Mar 24, 2009)¶

Properly escape | in LaTeX output.
#71: If a decoding error occurs in source files, print a warning and replace the characters by ”?”.
Fix a problem in the HTML search if the index takes too long to load.
Don’t output system messages while resolving, because they would stay in the doctrees even if keep_warnings is false.
#82: Determine the correct path for dependencies noted by docutils. This fixes behavior where a source with dependent files was always reported as changed.
Recognize toctree directives that are not on section toplevel, but within block items, such as tables.
Use a new RFC base URL, since rfc.org seems down.
Fix a crash in the todolist directive when no todo items are defined.
Don’t call LaTeX or dvipng over and over again if it was not found once, and use text-only latex as a substitute in that case.
Fix problems with footnotes in the LaTeX output.
Prevent double hyphens becoming en-dashes in literal code in the LaTeX output.
Open literalinclude files in universal newline mode to allow arbitrary newline conventions.
Actually make the -Q option work.
#86: Fix explicit document titles in toctrees.
#81: Write environment and search index in a manner that is safe from exceptions that occur during dumping.
#80: Fix UnicodeErrors when a locale is set with setlocale().

Release 0.5.1 (Dec 15, 2008)¶

#67: Output warnings about failed doctests in the doctest extension even when running in quiet mode.
#72: In pngmath, make it possible to give a full path to LaTeX and dvipng on Windows. For that to work, the pngmath_latex and pngmath_dvipng options are no longer split into command and additional arguments; use pngmath_latex_args and pngmath_dvipng_args to give additional arguments.
Don’t crash on failing doctests with non-ASCII characters.
Don’t crash on writing status messages and warnings containing unencodable characters.
Warn if a doctest extension block doesn’t contain any code.
Fix the handling of :param: and :type: doc fields when they contain markup (especially cross-referencing roles).
#65: Fix storage of depth information for PNGs generated by the pngmath extension.
Fix autodoc crash when automethod is used outside a class context.
#68: Fix LaTeX writer output for images with specified height.
#60: Fix wrong generated image path when including images in sources in subdirectories.
Fix the JavaScript search when html_copy_source is off.
Fix an indentation problem in autodoc when documenting classes with the option autoclass_content = "both" set.
Don’t crash on empty index entries, only emit a warning.
Fix a typo in the search JavaScript code, leading to unusable search function in some setups.

Release 0.5 (Nov 23, 2008) – Birthday release!¶

New features added¶

Markup features:
- Citations are now global: all citation defined in any file can be referenced from any file. Citations are collected in a bibliography for LaTeX output.
- Footnotes are now properly handled in the LaTeX builder: they appear at the location of the footnote reference in text, not at the end of a section. Thanks to Andrew McNamara for the initial patch.
- “System Message” warnings are now automatically removed from the built documentation, and only written to stderr. If you want the old behavior, set the new config value keep_warnings to True.
- Glossary entries are now automatically added to the index.
- Figures with captions can now be referred to like section titles, using the :ref: role without an explicit link text.
- Added cmember role for consistency.
- Lists enumerated by letters or roman numerals are now handled like in standard reST.
- The seealso directive can now also be given arguments, as a short form.
- You can now document several programs and their options with the new program directive.
HTML output and templates:
- Incompatible change: The “root” relation link (top left in the relbar) now points to the master_doc by default, no longer to a document called “index”. The old behavior, while useful in some situations, was somewhat unexpected. Override the “rootrellink” block in the template to customize where it refers to.
- The JavaScript search now searches for objects before searching in the full text.
- TOC tree entries now have CSS classes that make it possible to style them depending on their depth.
- Highlighted code blocks now have CSS classes that make it possible to style them depending on their language.
- HTML <meta> tags via the docutils meta directive are now supported.
- SerializingHTMLBuilder was added as new abstract builder that can be subclassed to serialize build HTML in a specific format. The PickleHTMLBuilder is a concrete subclass of it that uses pickle as serialization implementation.
- JSONHTMLBuilder was added as another SerializingHTMLBuilder subclass that dumps the generated HTML into JSON files for further processing.
- The rellinks block in the layout template is now called linktags to avoid confusion with the relbar links.
- The HTML builders have two additional attributes now that can be used to disable the anchor-link creation after headlines and definition links.
- Only generate a module index if there are some modules in the documentation.
New and changed config values:
- Added support for internationalization in generated text with the language and locale_dirs config values. Many thanks to language contributors:
  - Horst Gutmann – German
  - Pavel Kosina – Czech
  - David Larlet – French
  - Michał Kandulski – Polish
  - Yasushi Masuda – Japanese
  - Guillem Borrell – Spanish
  - Luc Saffre and Peter Bertels – Dutch
  - Fred Lin – Traditional Chinese
  - Roger Demetrescu – Brazilian Portuguese
  - Rok Garbas – Slovenian
- The new config value highlight_language set a global default for highlighting. When 'python3' is selected, console output blocks are recognized like for 'python'.
- Exposed Pygments’ lexer guessing as a highlight “language” guess.
- The new config value latex_elements allows to override all LaTeX snippets that Sphinx puts into the generated .tex file by default.
- Added exclude_dirnames config value that can be used to exclude e.g. CVS directories from source file search.
- Added source_encoding config value to select input encoding.
Extensions:
- The new extensions sphinx.ext.jsmath and sphinx.ext.pngmath provide math support for both HTML and LaTeX builders.
- The new extension sphinx.ext.intersphinx half-automatically creates links to Sphinx documentation of Python objects in other projects.
- The new extension sphinx.ext.todo allows the insertion of “To do” directives whose visibility in the output can be toggled. It also adds a directive to compile a list of all todo items.
- sphinx.ext.autodoc has a new event autodoc-process-signature that allows tuning function signature introspection.
- sphinx.ext.autodoc has a new event autodoc-skip-member that allows tuning which members are included in the generated content.
- Respect __all__ when autodocumenting module members.
- The automodule directive now supports the synopsis, deprecated and platform options.
Extension API:
- Sphinx.add_node() now takes optional visitor methods for the HTML, LaTeX and text translators; this prevents having to manually patch the classes.
- Added Sphinx.add_javascript() that adds scripts to load in the default HTML template.
- Added new events: source-read, env-updated, env-purge-doc, missing-reference, build-finished.
Other changes:
- Added a command-line switch -Q: it will suppress warnings.
- Added a command-line switch -A: it can be used to supply additional values into the HTML templates.
- Added a command-line switch -C: if it is given, no configuration file conf.py is required.
- Added a distutils command build_sphinx: When Sphinx is installed, you can call python setup.py build_sphinx for projects that have Sphinx documentation, which will build the docs and place them in the standard distutils build directory.
- In quickstart, if the selected root path already contains a Sphinx project, complain and abort.

Bugs fixed¶

#51: Escape configuration values placed in HTML templates.
#44: Fix small problems in HTML help index generation.
Fix LaTeX output for line blocks in tables.
#38: Fix “illegal unit” error when using pixel image widths/heights.
Support table captions in LaTeX output.
#39: Work around a bug in Jinja that caused “<generator ...>” to be emitted in HTML output.
Fix a problem with module links not being generated in LaTeX output.
Fix the handling of images in different directories.
#29: Support option lists in the text writer. Make sure that dashes introducing long option names are not contracted to en-dashes.
Support the “scale” option for images in HTML output.
#25: Properly escape quotes in HTML help attribute values.
Fix LaTeX build for some description environments with :noindex:.
#24: Don’t crash on uncommon casing of role names (like :Class:).
Only output ANSI colors on color terminals.
Update to newest fncychap.sty, to fix problems with non-ASCII characters at the start of chapter titles.
Fix a problem with index generation in LaTeX output, caused by hyperref not being included last.
Don’t disregard return annotations for functions without any parameters.
Don’t throw away labels for code blocks.

Release 0.4.3 (Oct 8, 2008)¶

Fix a bug in autodoc with directly given autodoc members.
Fix a bug in autodoc that would import a module twice, once as “module”, once as “module.”.
Fix a bug in the HTML writer that created duplicate id attributes for section titles with docutils 0.5.
Properly call super() in overridden blocks in templates.
Add a fix when using XeTeX.
Unify handling of LaTeX escaping.
Rebuild everything when the extensions config value changes.
Don’t try to remove a nonexisting static directory.
Fix an indentation problem in production lists.
Fix encoding handling for literal include files: literalinclude now has an encoding option that defaults to UTF-8.
Fix the handling of non-ASCII characters entered in quickstart.
Fix a crash with nonexisting image URIs.

Release 0.4.2 (Jul 29, 2008)¶

Fix rendering of the samp role in HTML.
Fix a bug with LaTeX links to headings leading to a wrong page.
Reread documents with globbed toctrees when source files are added or removed.
Add a missing parameter to PickleHTMLBuilder.handle_page().
Put inheritance info always on its own line.
Don’t automatically enclose code with whitespace in it in quotes; only do this for the samp role.
autodoc now emits a more precise error message when a module can’t be imported or an attribute can’t be found.
The JavaScript search now uses the correct file name suffix when referring to found items.
The automodule directive now accepts the inherited-members and show-inheritance options again.
You can now rebuild the docs normally after relocating the source and/or doctree directory.

Release 0.4.1 (Jul 5, 2008)¶

Added sub-/superscript node handling to TextBuilder.
Label names in references are now case-insensitive, since reST label names are always lowercased.
Fix linkcheck builder crash for malformed URLs.
Add compatibility for admonitions and docutils 0.5.
Remove the silly restriction on “rubric” in the LaTeX writer: you can now write arbitrary “rubric” directives, and only those with a title of “Footnotes” will be ignored.
Copy the HTML logo to the output _static directory.
Fix LaTeX code for modules with underscores in names and platforms.
Fix a crash with nonlocal image URIs.
Allow the usage of :noindex: in automodule directives, as documented.
Fix the delete() docstring processor function in autodoc.
Fix warning message for nonexisting images.
Fix JavaScript search in Internet Explorer.

Release 0.4 (Jun 23, 2008)¶

New features added¶

tocdepth can be given as a file-wide metadata entry, and specifies the maximum depth of a TOC of this file.
The new config value default_role can be used to select the default role for all documents.
Sphinx now interprets field lists with fields like :param foo: in description units.
The new staticmethod directive can be used to mark methods as static methods.
HTML output:
- The “previous” and “next” links have a more logical structure, so that by following “next” links you can traverse the entire TOC tree.
- The new event html-page-context can be used to include custom values into the context used when rendering an HTML template.
- Document metadata is now in the default template context, under the name metadata.
- The new config value html_favicon can be used to set a favicon for the HTML output. Thanks to Sebastian Wiesner.
- The new config value html_use_index can be used to switch index generation in HTML documents off.
- The new config value html_split_index can be used to create separate index pages for each letter, to be used when the complete index is too large for one page.
- The new config value html_short_title can be used to set a shorter title for the documentation which is then used in the navigation bar.
- The new config value html_show_sphinx can be used to control whether a link to Sphinx is added to the HTML footer.
- The new config value html_file_suffix can be used to set the HTML file suffix to e.g. .xhtml.
- The directories in the html_static_path can now contain subdirectories.
- The module index now isn’t collapsed if the number of submodules is larger than the number of toplevel modules.
The image directive now supports specifying the extension as .*, which makes the builder select the one that matches best. Thanks to Sebastian Wiesner.
The new config value exclude_trees can be used to exclude whole subtrees from the search for source files.
Defaults for configuration values can now be callables, which allows dynamic defaults.
The new TextBuilder creates plain-text output.
Python 3-style signatures, giving a return annotation via ->, are now supported.
Extensions:
- The autodoc extension now offers a much more flexible way to manipulate docstrings before including them into the output, via the new autodoc-process-docstring event.
- The autodoc extension accepts signatures for functions, methods and classes now that override the signature got via introspection from Python code.
- The autodoc extension now offers a show-inheritance option for autoclass that inserts a list of bases after the signature.
- The autodoc directives now support the noindex flag option.

Bugs fixed¶

Correctly report the source location for docstrings included with autodoc.
Fix the LaTeX output of description units with multiple signatures.
Handle the figure directive in LaTeX output.
Handle raw admonitions in LaTeX output.
Fix determination of the title in HTML help output.
Handle project names containing spaces.
Don’t write SSI-like comments in HTML output.
Rename the “sidebar” class to “sphinxsidebar” in order to stay different from reST sidebars.
Use a binary TOC in HTML help generation to fix issues links without explicit anchors.
Fix behavior of references to functions/methods with an explicit title.
Support citation, subscript and superscript nodes in LaTeX writer.
Provide the standard “class” directive as “cssclass”; else it is shadowed by the Sphinx-defined directive.
Fix the handling of explicit module names given to autoclass directives. They now show up with the correct module name in the generated docs.
Enable autodoc to process Unicode docstrings.
The LaTeX writer now translates line blocks with \raggedright, which plays nicer with tables.
Fix bug with directories in the HTML builder static path.

Release 0.3 (May 6, 2008)¶

New features added¶

The toctree directive now supports a glob option that allows glob-style entries in the content.
If the pygments_style config value contains a dot it’s treated as the import path of a custom Pygments style class.
A new config value, exclude_dirs, can be used to exclude whole directories from the search for source files.
The configuration directory (containing conf.py) can now be set independently from the source directory. For that, a new command-line option -c has been added.
A new directive tabularcolumns can be used to give a tabular column specification for LaTeX output. Tables now use the tabulary package. Literal blocks can now be placed in tables, with several caveats.
A new config value, latex_use_parts, can be used to enable parts in LaTeX documents.
Autodoc now skips inherited members for classes, unless you give the new inherited-members option.
A new config value, autoclass_content, selects if the docstring of the class’ __init__ method is added to the directive’s body.
Support for C++ class names (in the style Class::Function) in C function descriptions.
Support for a toctree_only item in items for the latex_documents config value. This only includes the documents referenced by TOC trees in the output, not the rest of the file containing the directive.

Bugs fixed¶

sphinx.htmlwriter: Correctly write the TOC file for any structure of the master document. Also encode non-ASCII characters as entities in TOC and index file. Remove two remaining instances of hard-coded “documentation”.
sphinx.ext.autodoc: descriptors are detected properly now.
sphinx.latexwriter: implement all reST admonitions, not just note and warning.
Lots of little fixes to the LaTeX output and style.
Fix OpenSearch template and make template URL absolute. The html_use_opensearch config value now must give the base URL.
Some unused files are now stripped from the HTML help file build.

Release 0.2 (Apr 27, 2008)¶

Incompatible changes¶

Jinja, the template engine used for the default HTML templates, is now no longer shipped with Sphinx. If it is not installed automatically for you (it is now listed as a dependency in setup.py), install it manually from PyPI. This will also be needed if you’re using Sphinx from a SVN checkout; in that case please also remove the sphinx/jinja directory that may be left over from old revisions.
The clumsy handling of the index.html template was removed. The config value html_index is gone, and html_additional_pages should be used instead. If you need it, the old index.html template is still there, called defindex.html, and you can port your html_index template, using Jinja inheritance, by changing your template:
```
{% extends "defindex.html" %}
{% block tables %}
... old html_index template content ...
{% endblock %}
```
and putting 'index': name of your template in html_additional_pages.
In the layout template, redundant blocks were removed; you should use Jinja’s standard {{ super() }} mechanism instead, as explained in the (newly written) templating docs.

New features added¶

Extension API (Application object):
- Support a new method, add_crossref_type. It works like add_description_unit but the directive will only create a target and no output.
- Support a new method, add_transform. It takes a standard docutils Transform subclass which is then applied by Sphinx’ reader on parsing reST document trees.
- Add support for other template engines than Jinja, by adding an abstraction called a “template bridge”. This class handles rendering of templates and can be changed using the new configuration value “template_bridge”.
- The config file itself can be an extension (if it provides a setup() function).
Markup:
- New directive, currentmodule. It can be used to indicate the module name of the following documented things without creating index entries.
- Allow giving a different title to documents in the toctree.
- Allow giving multiple options in a cmdoption directive.
- Fix display of class members without explicit class name given.
Templates (HTML output):
- index.html renamed to defindex.html, see above.
- There’s a new config value, html_title, that controls the overall “title” of the set of Sphinx docs. It is used instead everywhere instead of “Projectname vX.Y documentation” now.
- All references to “documentation” in the templates have been removed, so that it is now easier to use Sphinx for non-documentation documents with the default templates.
- Templates now have an XHTML doctype, to be consistent with docutils’ HTML output.
- You can now create an OpenSearch description file with the html_use_opensearch config value.
- You can now quickly include a logo in the sidebar, using the html_logo config value.
- There are new blocks in the sidebar, so that you can easily insert content into the sidebar.
LaTeX output:
- The sphinx.sty package was cleaned of unused stuff.
- You can include a logo in the title page with the latex_logo config value.
- You can define the link colors and a border and background color for verbatim environments.

Thanks to Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Talin, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven and Sebastian Wiesner for suggestions.

Bugs fixed¶

sphinx.ext.autodoc: Don’t check __module__ for explicitly given members. Remove “self” in class constructor argument list.
sphinx.htmlwriter: Don’t use os.path for joining image HREFs.
sphinx.htmlwriter: Don’t use SmartyPants for HTML attribute values.
sphinx.latexwriter: Implement option lists. Also, some other changes were made to sphinx.sty in order to enhance compatibility and remove old unused stuff. Thanks to Gael Varoquaux for that!
sphinx.roles: Fix referencing glossary terms with explicit targets.
sphinx.environment: Don’t swallow TOC entries when resolving subtrees.
sphinx.quickstart: Create a sensible default latex_documents setting.
sphinx.builder, sphinx.environment: Gracefully handle some user error cases.
sphinx.util: Follow symbolic links when searching for documents.

Release 0.1.61950 (Mar 26, 2008)¶

sphinx.quickstart: Fix format string for Makefile.

Release 0.1.61945 (Mar 26, 2008)¶

sphinx.htmlwriter, sphinx.latexwriter: Support the .. image:: directive by copying image files to the output directory.
sphinx.builder: Consistently name “special” HTML output directories with a leading underscore; this means _sources and _static.
sphinx.environment: Take dependent files into account when collecting the set of outdated sources.
sphinx.directives: Record files included with .. literalinclude:: as dependencies.
sphinx.ext.autodoc: Record files from which docstrings are included as dependencies.
sphinx.builder: Rebuild all HTML files in case of a template change.
sphinx.builder: Handle unavailability of TOC relations (previous/ next chapter) more gracefully in the HTML builder.
sphinx.latexwriter: Include fncychap.sty which doesn’t seem to be very common in TeX distributions. Add a clean target in the latex Makefile. Really pass the correct paper and size options to the LaTeX document class.
setup: On Python 2.4, don’t egg-depend on docutils if a docutils is already installed – else it will be overwritten.

Release 0.1.61843 (Mar 24, 2008)¶

sphinx.quickstart: Really don’t create a makefile if the user doesn’t want one.
setup: Don’t install scripts twice, via setuptools entry points and distutils scripts. Only install via entry points.
sphinx.builder: Don’t recognize the HTML builder’s copied source files (under _sources) as input files if the source suffix is .txt.
sphinx.highlighting: Generate correct markup for LaTeX Verbatim environment escapes even if Pygments is not installed.
sphinx.builder: The WebHTMLBuilder is now called PickleHTMLBuilder.
sphinx.htmlwriter: Make parsed-literal blocks work as expected, not highlighting them via Pygments.
sphinx.environment: Don’t error out on reading an empty source file.

Release 0.1.61798 (Mar 23, 2008)¶

sphinx: Work with docutils SVN snapshots as well as 0.4.
sphinx.ext.doctest: Make the group in which doctest blocks are placed selectable, and default to 'default'.
sphinx.ext.doctest: Replace <BLANKLINE> in doctest blocks by real blank lines for presentation output, and remove doctest options given inline.
sphinx.environment: Move doctest_blocks out of block_quotes to support indented doctest blocks.
sphinx.ext.autodoc: Render .. automodule:: docstrings in a section node, so that module docstrings can contain proper sectioning.
sphinx.ext.autodoc: Use the module’s encoding for decoding docstrings, rather than requiring ASCII.

Release 0.1.61611 (Mar 21, 2008)¶

First public release.