Sphinx 2.3

Release 2.3.1 (released Dec 22, 2019)

Bugs fixed

  • #6936: sphinx-autogen: raises AttributeError

Release 2.3.0 (released Dec 15, 2019)

Incompatible changes

  • #6742: end-before option of literalinclude directive does not match the first line of the code block.

  • #1331: Change default User-Agent header to "Sphinx/X.Y.Z requests/X.Y.Z python/X.Y.Z". It can be changed via user_agent.

  • #6867: text: content of admonitions starts after a blank line

Deprecated

  • sphinx.builders.gettext.POHEADER

  • sphinx.io.SphinxStandaloneReader.app

  • sphinx.io.SphinxStandaloneReader.env

  • sphinx.util.texescape.tex_escape_map

  • sphinx.util.texescape.tex_hl_escape_map_new

  • sphinx.writers.latex.LaTeXTranslator.no_contractions

Features added

  • #6707: C++, support bit-fields.

  • #267: html: Eliminate prompt characters of doctest block from copyable text

  • #6548: html: Use favicon for OpenSearch if available

  • #6729: html theme: agogo theme now supports rightsidebar option

  • #6780: Add PEP-561 Support

  • #6762: latex: Allow to load additional LaTeX packages via extrapackages key of latex_elements

  • #1331: Add new config variable: user_agent

  • #6000: LaTeX: have backslash also be an inline literal word wrap break character

  • #4186: LaTeX: Support upLaTeX as a new latex_engine (experimental)

  • #6812: Improve a warning message when extensions are not parallel safe

  • #6818: Improve Intersphinx performance for multiple remote inventories.

  • #2546: apidoc: .so file support

  • #6798: autosummary: emit autodoc-skip-member event on generating stub file

  • #6483: i18n: make explicit titles in toctree translatable

  • #6816: linkcheck: Add linkcheck_auth option to provide authentication information when doing linkcheck builds

  • #6872: linkcheck: Handles HTTP 308 Permanent Redirect

  • #6613: html: Wrap section number in span tag

  • #6781: gettext: Add gettext_last_translator and gettext_language_team to customize headers of POT file

Bugs fixed

  • #6668: LaTeX: Longtable before header has incorrect distance (refs: latex3/latex2e#173)

  • #6618: LaTeX: Avoid section names at the end of a page

  • #6738: LaTeX: Do not replace unicode characters by LaTeX macros on unicode supported LaTeX engines: ¶, §, €, ∞, ±, →, ‣, –, superscript and subscript digits go through “as is” (as default OpenType font supports them)

  • #6704: linkcheck: Be defensive and handle newly defined HTTP error code

  • #6806: linkcheck: Failure on parsing content

  • #6655: image URLs containing data: causes gettext builder crashed

  • #6584: i18n: Error when compiling message catalogs on Hindi

  • #6718: i18n: KeyError is raised if section title and table title are same

  • #6743: i18n: rst_prolog breaks the translation

  • #6708: mathbase: Some deprecated functions have removed

  • #6709: autodoc: mock object does not work as a class decorator

  • #5070: epub: Wrong internal href fragment links

  • #6712: Allow not to install sphinx.testing as runtime (mainly for ALT Linux)

  • #6741: html: search result was broken with empty html_file_suffix

  • #6001: LaTeX does not wrap long code lines at backslash character

  • #6804: LaTeX: PDF build breaks if admonition of danger type contains code-block long enough not to fit on one page

  • #6809: LaTeX: code-block in a danger type admonition can easily spill over bottom of page

  • #6793: texinfo: Code examples broken following “sidebar”

  • #6813: An orphan warning is emitted for included document on Windows. Thanks to @drillan

  • #6850: Fix smartypants module calls re.sub() with wrong options

  • #6824: HTML search: If a search term is partially matched in the title and fully matched in a text paragraph on the same page, the search does not include this match.

  • #6848: config.py shouldn’t pop extensions from overrides

  • #6867: text: extra spaces are inserted to hyphenated words on folding lines

  • #6886: LaTeX: xelatex converts straight double quotes into right curly ones (shows when smartquotes is False)

  • #6890: LaTeX: even with smartquotes off, PDF output transforms straight quotes and consecutive hyphens into curly quotes and dashes

  • #6876: LaTeX: multi-line display of authors on title page has ragged edges

  • #6887: Sphinx crashes with Docutils 0.16b0

  • #6920: sphinx-build: A console message is wrongly highlighted

  • #6900: sphinx-build: -D option does not considers 0 and 1 as a boolean value