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# Changes in Sphinx

## Release 1.4 (released Mar 28, 2016)

### Incompatible changes

- Drop `PorterStemmer` package support. Use `PyStemmer` instead of `PorterStemmer` to accelerate stemming.
- sphinx_rtd_theme has become optional. Please install it manually. Refs #2087, #2086, #1845 and #2097. Thanks to Victor Zverovich.
- #2231: Use DUrole instead of DUspan for custom roles in LaTeX writer. It enables to take title of roles as an argument of custom macros.
- #2022: ‘Thumbs.db’ and ‘.DS_Store’ are added to `exclude_patterns` default values in conf.py that will be provided on sphinx-quickstart.
- #2027, #2208: The `html_title` accepts string values only. And The None value cannot be accepted.
- `sphinx.ext.graphviz`: show graph image in inline by default
- #2060, #2224: The `manpage` role now generate `sphinx.addnodes.manpage` node instead of `sphinx.addnodes.literal_emphasis` node.
- #2022: `html_extra_path` also copies dotfiles in the extra directory, and refers to `exclude_patterns` to exclude extra files and directories.
- #2300: enhance autoclass:: to use the docstring of __new__ if __init__ method’s is missing of empty
- #2251: Previously, under glossary directives, multiple terms for one definition are converted into single `term` node and the each terms in the term node are separated by `termsep` node. In new implementation, each terms are converted into individual `term` nodes and `termsep` node is removed. By this change, output layout of every builders are changed a bit.
- The default highlight language is now Python 3. This means that source code is highlighted as Python 3 (which is mostly a superset of Python 2), and no parsing is attempted to distinguish valid code. To get the old behavior back, add `highlight_language = "python"` to conf.py.
- Locale Date Markup Language like `"MMMM dd, YYYY"` is default format for `today_fmt` and `html_last_updated_fmt`. However strftime format like `"%B %d, %Y"` is also supported for backward compatibility until Sphinx-1.5. Later format will be disabled from Sphinx-1.5.
- #2327: `latex_use_parts` is deprecated now. Use `latex_toplevel_sectioning` instead.
- #2337: Use `\url{URL}` macro instead of `\href{URL}{URL}` in LaTeX writer.
- #1498: manpage writer: don’t make whole of item in definition list bold if it includes strong node.
- #582: Remove hint message from quick search box for html output.
- #2378: Sphinx now bundles newfloat.sty

### Features added

- #2092: add todo directive support in napoleon package.
- #1962: when adding directives, roles or nodes from an extension, warn if such an element is already present (built-in or added by another extension).
- #1909: Add “doc” references to Intersphinx inventories.
- C++ type alias support (e.g., `.. type:: T = int`).
- C++ template support for classes, functions, type aliases, and variables (#1729, #1314).
- C++, added new scope management directives `namespace-push` and `namespace-pop`.
- #1970: Keyboard shortcuts to navigate Next and Previous topics
- Intersphinx: Added support for fetching Intersphinx inventories with URLs using HTTP basic auth.
- C++, added support for template parameter in function info field lists.
- C++, added support for pointers to member (function).
- #2113: Allow `:class:` option to code-block directive.
- #2192: Imgmath (pngmath with svg support).
- #2200: Support XeTeX and LuaTeX for the LaTeX builder.
- #1906: Use xcolor over color for fcolorbox where available for LaTeX output.
- #2216: Texinputs makefile improvements.
- #2170: Support for Chinese language search index.
- #2214: Add sphinx.ext.githubpages to publish the docs on GitHub Pages
- #1030: Make page reference names for latex_show_pagerefs translatable
- #2162: Add Sphinx.add_source_parser() to add source_suffix and source_parsers from extension
- #2207: Add sphinx.parsers.Parser class; a base class for new parsers
- #656: Add `graphviz_dot` option to graphviz directives to switch the `dot` command
- #1939: Added the `dummy` builder: syntax check without output.
- #2230: Add `math_number_all` option to number all displayed math in math extensions
- #2235: `needs_sphinx` supports micro version comparison
- #2282: Add “language” attribute to html tag in the “basic” theme
- #1779: Add EPUB 3 builder
- #1751: Add `todo_link_only` to avoid file path and line indication on `todolist`. Thanks to Francesco Montesano.
- #2199: Use `imagesize` package to obtain size of images.
- #1099: Add configurable retries to the linkcheck builder. Thanks to Alex Gaynor. Also don’t check anchors starting with `!`.
- #2300: enhance autoclass:: to use the docstring of __new__ if __init__ method’s is missing of empty
- #1858: Add Sphinx.add_enumerable_node() to add enumerable nodes for numfig feature
- #1286, #2099: Add `sphinx.ext.autosectionlabel` extension to allow reference sections using its title. Thanks to Tadhg O’Higgins.
- #1854: Allow to choose Janome for Japanese splitter.
- #1853: support custom text splitter on html search with `language='ja'`.
- #2320: classifier of glossary terms can be used for index entries grouping key. The classifier also be used for translation. See also Glossary.
- #2308: Define `\tablecontinued` macro to redefine the style of continued label for longtables.
- Select an image by similarity if multiple images are globbed by `.. image:: filename.*`
- #1921: Support figure substitutions by `language` and `figure_language_filename`
- #2245: Add `latex_elements["passoptionstopackages"]` option to call PassOptionsToPackages in early stage of preambles.
- #2340: Math extension: support alignment of multiple equations for MathJAX.
- #2338: Define `\titleref` macro to redefine the style of `title-reference` roles.
- Define `\menuselection` and `\accelerator` macros to redefine the style of `menuselection` roles.
- Define `\crossref` macro to redefine the style of references
- #2301: Texts in the classic html theme should be hyphenated.
- #2355: Define `\termref` macro to redefine the style of `term` roles.
- Add `suppress_warnings` to suppress arbitrary warning message (experimental)
- #2229: Fix no warning is given for unknown options
- #2327: Add `latex_toplevel_sectioning` to switch the top level sectioning of LaTeX document.

### Bugs fixed

- #1913: C++, fix assert bug for enumerators in next-to-global and global scope.
- C++, fix parsing of ‘signed char’ and ‘unsigned char’ as types.
- C++, add missing support for ‘friend’ functions.
- C++, add missing support for virtual base classes (thanks to Rapptz).
- C++, add support for final classes.
- C++, fix parsing of types prefixed with ‘enum’.
- #2023: Dutch search support uses Danish stemming info.
- C++, add support for user-defined literals.
- #1804: Now html output wraps overflowed long-line-text in the sidebar. Thanks to Hassen ben tanfous.
- #2183: Fix porterstemmer causes `make json` to fail.
- #1899: Ensure list is sent to OptParse.
- #2164: Fix wrong check for pdftex inside sphinx.sty (for graphicx package option).
- #2165, #2218: Remove faulty and non-need conditional from sphinx.sty.
- Fix broken LaTeX code is generated if unknown language is given
- #1944: Fix rst_prolog breaks file-wide metadata
- #2074: make gettext should use canonical relative paths for .pot. Thanks to anatoly techtonik.
- #2311: Fix sphinx.ext.inheritance_diagram raises AttributeError
- #2251: Line breaks in .rst files are transferred to .pot files in a wrong way.
- #794: Fix date formatting in latex output is not localized
- Remove `image/gif` from supported_image_types of LaTeX writer (#2272)
- Fix ValueError is raised if LANGUAGE is empty string
- Fix unpack warning is shown when the directives generated from `Sphinx.add_crossref_type` is used
- The default highlight language is now `default`. This means that source code is highlighted as Python 3 (which is mostly a superset of Python 2) if possible. To get the old behavior back, add `highlight_language = "python"` to conf.py.
- #2329: Refresh environment forcely if source directory has changed.
- #2331: Fix code-blocks are filled by block in dvi; remove `xcdraw` option from xcolor package
- Fix the confval type checker emits warnings if unicode is given to confvals which expects string value
- #2360: Fix numref in LaTeX output is broken
- #2361: Fix additional paragraphs inside the “compound” directive are indented
- #2364: Fix KeyError ‘rootSymbol’ on Sphinx upgrade from older version.
- #2348: Move amsmath and amssymb to before fontpkg on LaTeX writer.
- #2368: Ignore emacs lock files like `.#foo.rst` by default.
- #2262: literal_block and its caption has been separated by pagebreak in LaTeX output.
- #2319: Fix table counter is overrided by code-block’s in LaTeX. Thanks to jfbu.
- Fix unpack warning if combinated with 3rd party domain extensions.
- #1153: Fix figures in sidebar causes latex build error.
- #2358: Fix user-preamble could not override the tocdepth definition.
- #2358: Redece tocdepth if `part` or `chapter` is used for top_sectionlevel.
- #2351: Fix footnote spacing
- #2363: Fix `toctree()` in templates generates broken links in SingleHTMLBuilder.
- #2366: Fix empty hyperref is generated on toctree in HTML builder.

### Documentation

- #1757: Fix for usage of `html_last_updated_fmt`. Thanks to Ralf Hemmecke.

## Release 1.3.6 (released Feb 29, 2016)

### Features added

- #1873, #1876, #2278: Add `page_source_suffix` html context variable. This should be introduced with `source_parsers` feature. Thanks for Eric Holscher.

### Bugs fixed

- #2265: Fix babel is used in spite of disabling it on `latex_elements`
- #2295: Avoid mutating dictionary errors while enumerating members in autodoc with Python 3
- #2291: Fix pdflatex “Counter too large” error from footnotes inside tables of contents
- #2292: Fix some footnotes disappear from LaTeX output
- #2287: `sphinx.transforms.Locale` always uses rst parser. Sphinx i18n feature should support parsers that specified source_parsers.
- #2290: Fix `sphinx.ext.mathbase` use of amsfonts may break user choice of math fonts
- #2324: Print a hint how to increase the recursion limit when it is hit.
- #1565, #2229: Revert new warning; the new warning will be triggered from version 1.4 on.
- #2329: Refresh environment forcely if source directory has changed.
- #2019: Fix the domain objects in search result are not escaped

## Release 1.3.5 (released Jan 24, 2016)

### Bugs fixed

- Fix line numbers was not shown on warnings in LaTeX and texinfo builders
- Fix filenames were not shown on warnings of citations
- Fix line numbers was not shown on warnings in LaTeX and texinfo builders
- Fix line numbers was not shown on warnings of indices
- #2026: Fix LaTeX builder raises error if parsed-literal includes links
- #2243: Ignore strange docstring types for classes, do not crash
- #2247: Fix #2205 breaks make html for definition list with classifiers that contains regular-expression like string
- #1565: Sphinx will now emit a warning that highlighting was skipped if the syntax is incorrect for `code-block`, `literalinclude` and so on.
- #2211: Fix paragraphs in table cell doesn’t work in Latex output
- #2253: `:pyobject:` option of `literalinclude` directive can’t detect indented body block when the block starts with blank or comment lines.
- Fix TOC is not shown when no `:maxdepth:` for toctrees (ref: #771)
- Fix warning message for `:numref:` if target is in orphaned doc (ref: #2244)

## Release 1.3.4 (released Jan 12, 2016)

### Bugs fixed

- #2134: Fix figure caption with reference causes latex build error
- #2094: Fix rubric with reference not working in Latex
- #2147: Fix literalinclude code in latex does not break in pages
- #1833: Fix email addresses is showed again if latex_show_urls is not None
- #2176: sphinx.ext.graphviz: use <object> instead of <img> to embed svg
- #967: Fix SVG inheritance diagram is not hyperlinked (clickable)
- #1237: Fix footnotes not working in definition list in LaTeX
- #2168: Fix raw directive does not work for text writer
- #2171: Fix cannot linkcheck url with unicode
- #2182: LaTeX: support image file names with more than 1 dots
- #2189: Fix previous sibling link for first file in subdirectory uses last file, not intended previous from root toctree
- #2003: Fix decode error under python2 (only) when `make linkcheck` is run
- #2186: Fix LaTeX output of mathbb in math
- #1480, #2188: LaTeX: Support math in section titles
- #2071: Fix same footnote in more than two section titles => LaTeX/PDF Bug
- #2040: Fix UnicodeDecodeError in sphinx-apidoc when author contains non-ascii characters
- #2193: Fix shutil.SameFileError if source directory and destination directory are same
- #2178: Fix unparseable C++ cross-reference when referencing a function with :cpp:any:
- #2206: Fix Sphinx latex doc build failed due to a footnotes
- #2201: Fix wrong table caption for tables with over 30 rows
- #2213: Set <blockquote> in the classic theme to fit with <p>
- #1815: Fix linkcheck does not raise an exception if warniserror set to true and link is broken
- #2197: Fix slightly cryptic error message for missing index.rst file
- #1894: Unlisted phony targets in quickstart Makefile
- #2125: Fix unifies behavior of collapsed fields (`GroupedField` and `TypedField`)
- #1408: Check latex_logo validity before copying
- #771: Fix latex output doesn’t set tocdepth
- #1820: On Windows, console coloring is broken with colorama version 0.3.3. Now sphinx use colorama>=0.3.5 to avoid this problem.
- #2072: Fix footnotes in chapter-titles do not appear in PDF output
- #1580: Fix paragraphs in longtable don’t work in Latex output
- #1366: Fix centered image not centered in latex
- #1860: Fix man page using `:samp:` with braces - font doesn’t reset
- #1610: Sphinx crashes in japanese indexing in some systems
- Fix Sphinx crashes if mecab initialization failed
- #2160: Fix broken TOC of PDFs if section includes an image
- #2172: Fix dysfunctional admonition py@lightbox in sphinx.sty. Thanks to jfbu.
- #2198,#2205: `make gettext` generate broken msgid for definition lists.
- #2062: Escape characters in doctests are treated incorrectly with Python 2.
- #2225: Fix if the option does not begin with dash, linking is not performed
- #2226: Fix math is not HTML-encoded when :nowrap: is given (jsmath, mathjax)
- #1601, #2220: ‘any’ role breaks extended domains behavior. Affected extensions doesn’t support resolve_any_xref and resolve_xref returns problematic node instead of None. sphinxcontrib-httpdomain is one of them.
- #2229: Fix no warning is given for unknown options

## Release 1.3.3 (released Dec 2, 2015)

### Bugs fixed

- #2177: Fix parallel hangs
- #2012: Fix exception occurred if `numfig_format` is invalid
- #2142: Provide non-minified JS code in `sphinx/search/non-minified-js/*.js` for source distribution on PyPI.
- #2148: Error while building devhelp target with non-ASCII document.

## Release 1.3.2 (released Nov 29, 2015)

### Features added

- #1935: Make “numfig_format” overridable in latex_elements.

### Bugs fixed

- #1976: Avoid “2.0” version of Babel because it doesn’t work with Windows environment.
- Add a “default.css” stylesheet (which imports “classic.css”) for compatibility.
- #1788: graphviz extension raises exception when caption option is present.
- #1789: `:pyobject:` option of `literalinclude` directive includes following lines after class definitions
- #1790: `literalinclude` strips empty lines at the head and tail
- #1802: load plugin themes automatically when theme.conf use it as ‘inherit’. Thanks to Takayuki Hirai.
- #1794: custom theme extended from alabaster or sphinx_rtd_theme can’t find base theme.
- #1834: compatibility for docutils-0.13: handle_io_errors keyword argument for docutils.io.FileInput cause TypeError.
- #1823: ‘.’ as <module_path> for sphinx-apidoc cause an unfriendly error. Now ‘.’ is converted to absolute path automatically.
- Fix a crash when setting up extensions which do not support metadata.
- #1784: Provide non-minified JS code in `sphinx/search/non-minified-js/*.js`
- #1822, #1892: Fix regression for #1061. autosummary can’t generate doc for imported members since sphinx-1.3b3. Thanks to Eric Larson.
- #1793, #1819: “see also” misses a linebreak in text output. Thanks to Takayuki Hirai.
- #1780, #1866: “make text” shows “class” keyword twice. Thanks to Takayuki Hirai.
- #1871: Fix for LaTeX output of tables with one column and multirows.
- Work around the lack of the HTMLParserError exception in Python 3.5.
- #1949: Use `safe_getattr` in the coverage builder to avoid aborting with descriptors that have custom behavior.
- #1915: Do not generate smart quotes in doc field type annotations.
- #1796: On py3, automated .mo building caused UnicodeDecodeError.
- #1923: Use babel features only if the babel latex element is nonempty.
- #1942: Fix a KeyError in websupport.
- #1903: Fix strange id generation for glossary terms.
- `make text` will crush if a definition list item has more than 1 classifiers as: `term : classifier1 : classifier2`.
- #1855: make gettext generates broken po file for definition lists with classifier.
- #1869: Fix problems when dealing with files containing non-ASCII characters. Thanks to Marvin Schmidt.
- #1798: Fix building LaTeX with references in titles.
- #1725: On py2 environment, doctest with using non-ASCII characters causes `'ascii' codec can't decode byte` exception.
- #1540: Fix RuntimeError with circular referenced toctree
- #1983: i18n translation feature breaks references which uses section name.
- #1990: Use caption of toctree to title of tableofcontents in LaTeX
- #1987: Fix ampersand is ignored in `:menuselection:` and `:guilabel:` on LaTeX builder
- #1994: More supporting non-standard parser (like recommonmark parser) for Translation and WebSupport feature. Now node.rawsource is fall backed to node.astext() during docutils transforming.
- #1989: “make blahblah” on Windows indicate help messages for sphinx-build every time. It was caused by wrong make.bat that generated by Sphinx-1.3.0/1.3.1.
- On Py2 environment, conf.py that is generated by sphinx-quickstart should have u prefixed config value for ‘version’ and ‘release’.
- #2102: On Windows + Py3, using `|today|` and non-ASCII date format will raise UnicodeEncodeError.
- #1974: UnboundLocalError: local variable ‘domain’ referenced before assignment when using `any` role and `sphinx.ext.intersphinx` in same time.
- #2121: multiple words search doesn’t find pages when words across on the page title and the page content.
- #1884, #1885: plug-in html themes cannot inherit another plug-in theme. Thanks to Suzumizaki.
- #1818: `sphinx.ext.todo` directive generates broken html class attribute as ‘admonition-‘ when `language` is specified with non-ASCII linguistic area like ‘ru’ or ‘ja’. To fix this, now `todo` directive can use `:class:` option.
- #2140: Fix footnotes in table has broken in LaTeX
- #2127: MecabBinder for html searching feature doesn’t work with Python 3. Thanks to Tomoko Uchida.

## Release 1.3.1 (released Mar 17, 2015)

### Bugs fixed

- #1769: allows generating quickstart files/dirs for destination dir that doesn’t overwrite existent files/dirs. Thanks to WAKAYAMA shirou.
- #1773: sphinx-quickstart doesn’t accept non-ASCII character as a option argument.
- #1766: the message “least Python 2.6 to run” is at best misleading.
- #1772: cross reference in docstrings like `:param .write:` breaks building.
- #1770, #1774: `literalinclude` with empty file occurs exception. Thanks to Takayuki Hirai.
- #1777: Sphinx 1.3 can’t load extra theme. Thanks to tell-k.
- #1776: `source_suffix = ['.rst']` cause unfriendly error on prior version.
- #1771: automated .mo building doesn’t work properly.
- #1783: Autodoc: Python2 Allow unicode string in __all__. Thanks to Jens Hedegaard Nielsen.
- #1781: Setting `html_domain_indices` to a list raises a type check warnings.

## Release 1.3 (released Mar 10, 2015)

### Incompatible changes

- Roles `ref`, `term` and `menusel` now don’t generate emphasis nodes anymore. If you want to keep italic style, adapt your stylesheet.
- Role `numref` uses `%s` as special character to indicate position of figure numbers instead `#` symbol.

### Features added

- Add convenience directives and roles to the C++ domain: directive `cpp:var` as alias for `cpp:member`, role `:cpp:var` as alias for `:cpp:member`, and role `any` for cross-reference to any C++ declaraction. #1577, #1744
- The `source_suffix` config value can now be a list of multiple suffixes.
- Add the ability to specify source parsers by source suffix with the `source_parsers` config value.
- #1675: A new builder, AppleHelpBuilder, has been added that builds Apple Help Books.

### Bugs fixed

- 1.3b3 change breaks a previous gettext output that contains duplicated msgid such as “foo bar” and “version changes in 1.3: foo bar”.
- #1745: latex builder cause maximum recursion depth exceeded when a footnote has a footnote mark itself.
- #1748: SyntaxError in sphinx/ext/ifconfig.py with Python 2.6.
- #1658, #1750: No link created (and warning given) if option does not begin with -, / or +. Thanks to Takayuki Hirai.
- #1753: C++, added missing support for more complex declarations.
- #1700: Add `:caption:` option for `toctree`.
- #1742: `:name:` option is provided for `toctree`, `code-block` and `literalinclude` dirctives.
- #1756: Incorrect section titles in search that was introduced from 1.3b3.
- #1746: C++, fixed name lookup procedure, and added missing lookups in declarations.
- #1765: C++, fix old id generation to use fully qualified names.

### Documentation

- #1651: Add `vartype` field descritpion for python domain.

## Release 1.3b3 (released Feb 24, 2015)

### Incompatible changes

- Dependency requirement updates: docutils 0.11, Pygments 2.0
- The `gettext_enables` config value has been renamed to `gettext_additional_targets`.
- #1735: Use https://docs.python.org/ instead of `http` protocol. It was used for `sphinx.ext.intersphinx` and some documentation.

### Features added

- #1346: Add new default theme;
  - Add ‘alabaster’ theme.
  - Add ‘sphinx_rtd_theme’ theme.
  - The ‘default’ html theme has been renamed to ‘classic’. ‘default’ is still available, however it will emit notice a recommendation that using new ‘alabaster’ theme.
- Added `highlight_options` configuration value.
- The `language` config value is now available in the HTML templates.
- The `env-updated` event can now return a value, which is interpreted as an iterable of additional docnames that need to be rewritten.
- #772: Support for scoped and unscoped enums in C++. Enumerators in unscoped enums are injected into the parent scope in addition to the enum scope.
- Add `todo_include_todos` config option to quickstart conf file, handled as described in documentation.
- HTML breadcrumb items tag has class “nav-item” and “nav-item-N” (like nav-item-0, 1, 2...).
- New option `sphinx-quickstart --use-make-mode` for generating Makefile that use sphinx-build make-mode.
- #1235: i18n: several node can be translated if it is set to `gettext_additional_targets` in conf.py. Supported nodes are:
  - ‘literal-block’
  - ‘doctest-block’
  - ‘raw’
  - ‘image’
- #1227: Add `html_scaled_image_link` config option to conf.py, to control scaled image link.

### Bugs fixed

- LaTeX writer now generates correct markup for cells spanning multiple rows.
- #1674: Do not crash if a module’s `__all__` is not a list of strings.
- #1629: Use VerbatimBorderColor to add frame to code-block in LaTeX
- On windows, make-mode didn’t work on Win32 platform if sphinx was invoked as `python sphinx-build.py`.
- #1687: linkcheck now treats 401 Unauthorized responses as “working”.
- #1690: toctrees with `glob` option now can also contain entries for single documents with explicit title.
- #1591: html search results for C++ elements now has correct interpage links.
- bizstyle theme: nested long title pages make long breadcrumb that breaks page layout.
- bizstyle theme: all breadcrumb items become ‘Top’ on some mobile browser (iPhone5s safari).
- #1722: restore `toctree()` template function behavior that was changed at 1.3b1.
- #1732: i18n: localized table caption raises exception.
- #1718: `:numref:` does not work with capital letters in the label
- #1630: resolve CSS conflicts, `div.container` css target for literal block wrapper now renamed to `div.literal-block-wrapper`.
- `sphinx.util.pycompat` has been restored in its backwards-compatibility; slated for removal in Sphinx 1.4.
- #1719: LaTeX writer does not respect `numref_format` option in captions

## Release 1.3b2 (released Dec 5, 2014)

### Incompatible changes

- update bundled ez_setup.py for setuptools-7.0 that requires Python 2.6 or later.

### Features added

- #1597: Added possibility to return a new template name from `html-page-context`.
- PR#314, #1150: Configuration values are now checked for their type. A warning is raised if the configured and the default value do not have the same type and do not share a common non-trivial base class.

### Bugs fixed

- PR#311: sphinx-quickstart does not work on python 3.4.
- Fix `autodoc_docstring_signature` not working with signatures in class docstrings.
- Rebuilding cause crash unexpectedly when source files were added.
- #1607: Fix a crash when building latexpdf with “howto” class
- #1251: Fix again. Sections which depth are lower than :tocdepth: should not be shown on localtoc sidebar.
- make-mode didn’t work on Win32 platform if sphinx was installed by wheel package.

## Release 1.3b1 (released Oct 10, 2014)

### Incompatible changes

- Dropped support for Python 2.5, 3.1 and 3.2.
- Dropped support for docutils versions up to 0.9.
- Removed the `sphinx.ext.oldcmarkup` extension.
- The deprecated config values `exclude_trees`, `exclude_dirnames` and `unused_docs` have been removed.
- A new node, `sphinx.addnodes.literal_strong`, has been added, for text that should appear literally (i.e. no smart quotes) in strong font. Custom writers will have to be adapted to handle this node.
- PR#269, #1476: replace `<tt>` tag by `<code>`. User customized stylesheets should be updated If the css contain some styles for `tt>` tag. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- #1543: `templates_path` is automatically added to `exclude_patterns` to avoid reading autosummary rst templates in the templates directory.
- Custom domains should implement the new `Domain.resolve_any_xref` method to make the `any` role work properly.
- gettext builder: gettext doesn’t emit uuid information to generated pot files by default. Please set `True` to `gettext_uuid` to emit uuid information. Additionally, if the `python-levenshtein` 3rd-party package is installed, it will improve the calculation time.
- gettext builder: disable extracting/apply ‘index’ node by default. Please set ‘index’ to `gettext_enables` to enable extracting index entries.
- PR#307: Add frame to code-block in LaTeX. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.

### Features added

- Add support for Python 3.4.
- Add support for docutils 0.12
- Added `sphinx.ext.napoleon` extension for NumPy and Google style docstring support.
- Added support for parallel reading (parsing) of source files with the `sphinx-build -j` option. Third-party extensions will need to be checked for compatibility and may need to be adapted if they store information in the build environment object. See `env-merge-info`.
- Added the `any` role that can be used to find a cross-reference of any type in any domain. Custom domains should implement the new `Domain.resolve_any_xref` method to make this work properly.
- Exception logs now contain the last 10 messages emitted by Sphinx.
- Added support for extension versions (a string returned by `setup()`, these can be shown in the traceback log files). Version requirements for extensions can be specified in projects using the new `needs_extensions` config value.
- Changing the default role within a document with the default-role directive is now supported.
- PR#214: Added stemming support for 14 languages, so that the built-in document search can now handle these. Thanks to Shibukawa Yoshiki.
- PR#296, PR#303, #76: numfig feature: Assign numbers to figures, tables and code-blocks. This feature is configured with `numfig`, `numfig_secnum_depth` and `numfig_format`. Also `numref` role is available. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- PR#202: Allow ”.” and “~” prefixed references in `:param:` doc fields for Python.
- PR#184: Add `autodoc_mock_imports`, allowing to mock imports of external modules that need not be present when autodocumenting.
- #925: Allow list-typed config values to be provided on the command line, like `-D key=val1,val2`.
- #668: Allow line numbering of `code-block` and `literalinclude` directives to start at an arbitrary line number, with a new `lineno-start` option.
- PR#172, PR#266: The `code-block` and `literalinclude` directives now can have a `caption` option that shows a filename before the code in the output. Thanks to Nasimul Haque, Takeshi Komiya.
- Prompt for the document language in sphinx-quickstart.
- PR#217: Added config values to suppress UUID and location information in generated gettext catalogs.
- PR#236, #1456: apidoc: Add a -M option to put module documentation before submodule documentation. Thanks to Wes Turner and Luc Saffre.
- #1434: Provide non-minified JS files for jquery.js and underscore.js to clarify the source of the minified files.
- PR#252, #1291: Windows color console support. Thanks to meu31.
- PR#255: When generating latex references, also insert latex target/anchor for the ids defined on the node. Thanks to Olivier Heurtier.
- PR#229: Allow registration of other translators. Thanks to Russell Sim.
- Add app.set_translator() API to register or override a Docutils translator class like `html_translator_class`.
- PR#267, #1134: add ‘diff’ parameter to literalinclude. Thanks to Richard Wall and WAKAYAMA shirou.
- PR#272: Added ‘bizstyle’ theme. Thanks to Shoji KUMAGAI.
- Automatically compile `*.mo` files from `*.po` files when `gettext_auto_build` is True (default) and `*.po` is newer than `*.mo` file.
- #623: `sphinx.ext.viewcode` supports imported function/class aliases.
- PR#275: `sphinx.ext.intersphinx` supports multiple target for the inventory. Thanks to Brigitta Sipocz.
- PR#261: Added the `env-before-read-docs` event that can be connected to modify the order of documents before they are read by the environment.
- #1284: Program options documented with `option` can now start with `+`.
- PR#291: The caption of `code-block` is recognised as a title of ref target. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- PR#298: Add new API: `add_latex_package()`. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- #1344: add `gettext_enables` to enable extracting ‘index’ to gettext catalog output / applying translation catalog to generated documentation.
- PR#301, #1583: Allow the line numbering of the directive `literalinclude` to match that of the included file, using a new `lineno-match` option. Thanks to Jeppe Pihl.
- PR#299: add various options to sphinx-quickstart. Quiet mode option `--quiet` will skips wizard mode. Thanks to WAKAYAMA shirou.
- #1623: Return types specified with `:rtype:` are now turned into links if possible.

### Bugs fixed

- #1438: Updated jQuery version from 1.8.3 to 1.11.1.
- #1568: Fix a crash when a “centered” directive contains a reference.
- Now sphinx.ext.autodoc works with python-2.5 again.
- #1563: `add_search_language()` raises AssertionError for correct type of argument. Thanks to rikoman.
- #1174: Fix smart quotes being applied inside roles like `program` or `makevar`.
- PR#235: comment db schema of websupport lacked a length of the node_id field. Thanks to solos.
- #1466,PR#241: Fix failure of the cpp domain parser to parse C+11 “variadic templates” declarations. Thanks to Victor Zverovich.
- #1459,PR#244: Fix default mathjax js path point to `http://` that cause mixed-content error on HTTPS server. Thanks to sbrandtb and robo9k.
- PR#157: autodoc remove spurious signatures from @property decorated attributes. Thanks to David Ham.
- PR#159: Add coverage targets to quickstart generated Makefile and make.bat. Thanks to Matthias Troffaes.
- #1251: When specifying toctree :numbered: option and :tocdepth: metadata, sub section number that is larger depth than `:tocdepth:` is shrunk.
- PR#260: Encode underscore in citation labels for latex export. Thanks to Lennart Fricke.
- PR#264: Fix could not resolve xref for figure node with :name: option. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- PR#265: Fix could not capture caption of graphviz node by xref. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- PR#263, #1013, #1103: Rewrite of C++ domain. Thanks to Jakob Lykke Andersen.
  - Hyperlinks to all found nested names and template arguments (#1103).
  - Support for function types everywhere, e.g., in std::function<bool(int, int)> (#1013).
  - Support for virtual functions.
  - Changed interpretation of function arguments to following standard prototype declarations, i.e., void f(arg) means that arg is the type of the argument, instead of it being the name.
  - Updated tests.
  - Updated documentation with elaborate description of what declarations are supported and how the namespace declarations influence declaration and cross-reference lookup.
  - Index names may be different now. Elements are indexed by their fully qualified name. It should be rather easy to change this behaviour and potentially index by namespaces/classes as well.
- PR#258, #939: Add dedent option for `code-block` and `literalinclude`. Thanks to Zafar Siddiqui.
- PR#268: Fix numbering section does not work at singlehtml mode. It still ad-hoc fix because there is a issue that section IDs are conflicted. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- PR#273, #1536: Fix RuntimeError with numbered circular toctree. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- PR#274: Set its URL as a default title value if URL appears in toctree. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- PR#276, #1381: `rfc` and `pep` roles support custom link text. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- PR#277, #1513: highlights for function pointers in argument list of `c:function`. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- PR#278: Fix section entries were shown twice if toctree has been put under only directive. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- #1547: pgen2 tokenizer doesn’t recognize `...` literal (Ellipsis for py3).
- PR#294: On LaTeX builder, wrap float environment on writing literal_block to avoid separation of caption and body. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- PR#295, #1520: `make.bat latexpdf` mechanism to `cd` back to the current directory. Thanks to Peter Suter.
- PR#297, #1571: Add imgpath property to all builders. It make easier to develop builder extensions. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- #1584: Point to master doc in HTML “top” link.
- #1585: Autosummary of modules broken in Sphinx-1.2.3.
- #1610: Sphinx cause AttributeError when MeCab search option is enabled and python-mecab is not installed.
- #1674: Do not crash if a module’s `__all__` is not a list of strings.
- #1673: Fix crashes with `nitpick_ignore` and `:doc:` references.
- #1686: ifconfig directive doesn’t care about default config values.
- #1642: Fix only one search result appearing in Chrome.

### Documentation

- Add clarification about the syntax of tags. (`doc/markup/misc.rst`)

## Release 1.2.3 (released Sep 1, 2014)

### Features added

- #1518: `sphinx-apidoc` command now has a `--version` option to show version information and exit
- New locales: Hebrew, European Portuguese, Vietnamese.

### Bugs fixed

- #636: Keep straight single quotes in literal blocks in the LaTeX build.
- #1419: Generated i18n sphinx.js files are missing message catalog entries from ‘.js_t’ and ‘.html’. The issue was introduced from Sphinx-1.1
- #1363: Fix i18n: missing python domain’s cross-references with currentmodule directive or currentclass directive.
- #1444: autosummary does not create the description from attributes docstring.
- #1457: In python3 environment, make linkcheck cause “Can’t convert ‘bytes’ object to str implicitly” error when link target url has a hash part. Thanks to Jorge_C.
- #1467: Exception on Python3 if nonexistent method is specified by automethod
- #1441: autosummary can’t handle nested classes correctly.
- #1499: With non-callable `setup` in a conf.py, now sphinx-build emits a user-friendly error message.
- #1502: In autodoc, fix display of parameter defaults containing backslashes.
- #1226: autodoc, autosummary: importing setup.py by automodule will invoke setup process and execute `sys.exit()`. Now sphinx avoids SystemExit exception and emits warnings without unexpected termination.
- #1503: py:function directive generate incorrectly signature when specifying a default parameter with an empty list `[]`. Thanks to Geert Jansen.
- #1508: Non-ASCII filename raise exception on make singlehtml, latex, man, texinfo and changes.
- #1531: On Python3 environment, docutils.conf with ‘source_link=true’ in the general section cause type error.
- PR#270, #1533: Non-ASCII docstring cause UnicodeDecodeError when uses with inheritance-diagram directive. Thanks to WAKAYAMA shirou.
- PR#281, PR#282, #1509: TODO extension not compatible with websupport. Thanks to Takeshi Komiya.
- #1477: gettext does not extract nodes.line in a table or list.
- #1544: `make text` generates wrong table when it has empty table cells.
- #1522: Footnotes from table get displayed twice in LaTeX. This problem has been appeared from Sphinx-1.2.1 by #949.
- #508: Sphinx every time exit with zero when is invoked from setup.py command. ex. `python setup.py build_sphinx -b doctest` return zero even if doctest failed.

## Release 1.2.2 (released Mar 2, 2014)

### Bugs fixed

- PR#211: When checking for existence of the `html_logo` file, check the full relative path and not the basename.
- PR#212: Fix traceback with autodoc and `__init__` methods without docstring.
- PR#213: Fix a missing import in the setup command.
- #1357: Option names documented by `option` are now again allowed to not start with a dash or slash, and referencing them will work correctly.
- #1358: Fix handling of image paths outside of the source directory when using the “wildcard” style reference.
- #1374: Fix for autosummary generating overly-long summaries if first line doesn’t end with a period.
- #1383: Fix Python 2.5 compatibility of sphinx-apidoc.
- #1391: Actually prevent using “pngmath” and “mathjax” extensions at the same time in sphinx-quickstart.
- #1386: Fix bug preventing more than one theme being added by the entry point mechanism.
- #1370: Ignore “toctree” nodes in text writer, instead of raising.
- #1364: Fix ‘make gettext’ fails when the ‘.. todolist::’ directive is present.
- #1367: Fix a change of PR#96 that break sphinx.util.docfields.Field.make_field interface/behavior for `item` argument usage.

### Documentation

- Extended the documentation about building extensions.

## Release 1.2.1 (released Jan 19, 2014)

### Bugs fixed

- #1335: Fix autosummary template overloading with exclamation prefix like `{% extends "!autosummary/class.rst" %}` cause infinite recursive function call. This was caused by PR#181.
- #1337: Fix autodoc with `autoclass_content="both"` uses useless `object.__init__` docstring when class does not have `__init__`. This was caused by a change for #1138.
- #1340: Can’t search alphabetical words on the HTML quick search generated with language=’ja’.
- #1319: Do not crash if the `html_logo` file does not exist.
- #603: Do not use the HTML-ized title for building the search index (that resulted in “literal” being found on every page with a literal in the title).
- #751: Allow production lists longer than a page in LaTeX by using longtable.
- #764: Always look for stopwords lowercased in JS search.
- #814: autodoc: Guard against strange type objects that don’t have `__bases__`.
- #932: autodoc: Do not crash if `__doc__` is not a string.
- #933: Do not crash if an `option` value is malformed (contains spaces but no option name).
- #908: On Python 3, handle error messages from LaTeX correctly in the pngmath extension.
- #943: In autosummary, recognize “first sentences” to pull from the docstring if they contain uppercase letters.
- #923: Take the entire LaTeX document into account when caching pngmath-generated images. This rebuilds them correctly when `pngmath_latex_preamble` changes.
- #901: Emit a warning when using docutils’ new “math” markup without a Sphinx math extension active.
- #845: In code blocks, when the selected lexer fails, display line numbers nevertheless if configured.
- #929: Support parsed-literal blocks in LaTeX output correctly.
- #949: Update the tabulary.sty packed with Sphinx.
- #1050: Add anonymous labels into `objects.inv` to be referenced via `intersphinx`.
- #1095: Fix print-media stylesheet being included always in the “scrolls” theme.
- #1085: Fix current classname not getting set if class description has `:noindex:` set.
- #1181: Report option errors in autodoc directives more gracefully.
- #1155: Fix autodocumenting C-defined methods as attributes in Python 3.
- #1233: Allow finding both Python classes and exceptions with the “class” and “exc” roles in intersphinx.
- #1198: Allow “image” for the “figwidth” option of the figure directive as documented by docutils.
- #1152: Fix pycode parsing errors of Python 3 code by including two grammar versions for Python 2 and 3, and loading the appropriate version for the running Python version.
- #1017: Be helpful and tell the user when the argument to `option` does not match the required format.
- #1345: Fix two bugs with `nitpick_ignore`; now you don’t have to remove the store environment for changes to have effect.
- #1072: In the JS search, fix issues searching for upper-cased words by lowercasing words before stemming.
- #1299: Make behavior of the `math` directive more consistent and avoid producing empty environments in LaTeX output.
- #1308: Strip HTML tags from the content of “raw” nodes before feeding it to the search indexer.
- #1249: Fix duplicate LaTeX page numbering for manual documents.
- #1292: In the linkchecker, retry HEAD requests when denied by HTTP 405. Also make the redirect code apparent and tweak the output a bit to be more obvious.
- #1285: Avoid name clashes between C domain objects and section titles.
- #848: Always take the newest code in incremental rebuilds with the `sphinx.ext.viewcode` extension.
- #979, #1266: Fix exclude handling in `sphinx-apidoc`.
- #1302: Fix regression in `sphinx.ext.inheritance_diagram` when documenting classes that can’t be pickled.
- #1316: Remove hard-coded `font-face` resources from epub theme.
- #1329: Fix traceback with empty translation msgstr in .po files.
- #1300: Fix references not working in translated documents in some instances.
- #1283: Fix a bug in the detection of changed files that would try to access doctrees of deleted documents.
- #1330: Fix `exclude_patterns` behavior with subdirectories in the `html_static_path`.
- #1323: Fix emitting empty `<ul>` tags in the HTML writer, which is not valid HTML.
- #1147: Don’t emit a sidebar search box in the “singlehtml” builder.

### Documentation

- #1325: Added a “Intersphinx” tutorial section. (`doc/tutorial.rst`)

## Release 1.2 (released Dec 10, 2013)

### Features added

- Added `sphinx.version_info` tuple for programmatic checking of the Sphinx version.

### Incompatible changes

- Removed the `sphinx.ext.refcounting` extension – it is very specific to CPython and has no place in the main distribution.

### Bugs fixed

- Restore `versionmodified` CSS class for versionadded/changed and deprecated directives.
- PR#181: Fix `html_theme_path = ['.']` is a trigger of rebuild all documents always (This change keeps the current “theme changes cause a rebuild” feature).
- #1296: Fix invalid charset in HTML help generated HTML files for default locale.
- PR#190: Fix gettext does not extract figure caption and rubric title inside other blocks. Thanks to Michael Schlenker.
- PR#176: Make sure setup_command test can always import Sphinx. Thanks to Dmitry Shachnev.
- #1311: Fix test_linkcode.test_html fails with C locale and Python 3.
- #1269: Fix ResourceWarnings with Python 3.2 or later.
- #1138: Fix: When `autodoc_docstring_signature = True` and `autoclass_content = 'init'` or `'both'`, __init__ line should be removed from class documentation.

## Release 1.2 beta3 (released Oct 3, 2013)

### Features added

- The Sphinx error log files will now include a list of the loaded extensions for help in debugging.

### Incompatible changes

- PR#154: Remove “sphinx” prefix from LaTeX class name except ‘sphinxmanual’ and ‘sphinxhowto’. Now you can use your custom document class without ‘sphinx’ prefix. Thanks to Erik B.

### Bugs fixed

- #1265: Fix i18n: crash when translating a section name that is pointed to from a named target.
- A wrong condition broke the search feature on first page that is usually index.rst. This issue was introduced in 1.2b1.
- #703: When Sphinx can’t decode filenames with non-ASCII characters, Sphinx now catches UnicodeError and will continue if possible instead of raising the exception.

## Release 1.2 beta2 (released Sep 17, 2013)

### Features added

- `apidoc` now ignores “_private” modules by default, and has an option `-P` to include them.
- `apidoc` now has an option to not generate headings for packages and modules, for the case that the module docstring already includes a reST heading.
- PR#161: `apidoc` can now write each module to a standalone page instead of combining all modules in a package on one page.
- Builders: rebuild i18n target document when catalog updated.
- Support docutils.conf ‘writers’ and ‘html4css1 writer’ section in the HTML writer. The latex, manpage and texinfo writers also support their respective ‘writers’ sections.
- The new `html_extra_path` config value allows to specify directories with files that should be copied directly to the HTML output directory.
- Autodoc directives for module data and attributes now support an `annotation` option, so that the default display of the data/attribute value can be overridden.
- PR#136: Autodoc directives now support an `imported-members` option to include members imported from different modules.
- New locales: Macedonian, Sinhala, Indonesian.
- Theme package collection by using setuptools plugin mechanism.

### Incompatible changes

- PR#144, #1182: Force timezone offset to LocalTimeZone on POT-Creation-Date that was generated by gettext builder. Thanks to masklinn and Jakub Wilk.

### Bugs fixed

- PR#132: Updated jQuery version to 1.8.3.
- PR#141, #982: Avoid crash when writing PNG file using Python 3. Thanks to Marcin Wojdyr.
- PR#145: In parallel builds, sphinx drops second document file to write. Thanks to tychoish.
- PR#151: Some styling updates to tables in LaTeX.
- PR#153: The “extensions” config value can now be overridden.
- PR#155: Added support for some C++11 function qualifiers.
- Fix: ‘make gettext’ caused UnicodeDecodeError when templates contain utf-8 encoded strings.
- #828: use inspect.getfullargspec() to be able to document functions with keyword-only arguments on Python 3.
- #1090: Fix i18n: multiple cross references (term, ref, doc) in the same line return the same link.
- #1157: Combination of ‘globaltoc.html’ and hidden toctree caused exception.
- #1159: fix wrong generation of objects inventory for Python modules, and add a workaround in intersphinx to fix handling of affected inventories.
- #1160: Citation target missing caused an AssertionError.
- #1162, PR#139: singlehtml builder didn’t copy images to _images/.
- #1173: Adjust setup.py dependencies because Jinja2 2.7 discontinued compatibility with Python < 3.3 and Python < 2.6. Thanks to Alexander Dupuy.
- #1185: Don’t crash when a Python module has a wrong or no encoding declared, and non-ASCII characters are included.
- #1188: sphinx-quickstart raises UnicodeEncodeError if “Project version” includes non-ASCII characters.
- #1189: “Title underline is too short” WARNING is given when using fullwidth characters to “Project name” on quickstart.
- #1190: Output TeX/texinfo/man filename has no basename (only extension) when using non-ASCII characters in the “Project name” on quickstart.
- #1192: Fix escaping problem for hyperlinks in the manpage writer.
- #1193: Fix i18n: multiple link references in the same line return the same link.
- #1176: Fix i18n: footnote reference number missing for auto numbered named footnote and auto symbol footnote.
- PR#146,#1172: Fix ZeroDivisionError in parallel builds. Thanks to tychoish.
- #1204: Fix wrong generation of links to local intersphinx targets.
- #1206: Fix i18n: gettext did not translate admonition directive’s title.
- #1232: Sphinx generated broken ePub files on Windows.
- #1259: Guard the debug output call when emitting events; to prevent the repr() implementation of arbitrary objects causing build failures.
- #1142: Fix NFC/NFD normalizing problem of rst filename on Mac OS X.
- #1234: Ignoring the string consists only of white-space characters.

## Release 1.2 beta1 (released Mar 31, 2013)

### Incompatible changes

- Removed `sphinx.util.compat.directive_dwim()` and `sphinx.roles.xfileref_role()` which were deprecated since version 1.0.
- PR#122: the files given in `latex_additional_files` now override TeX files included by Sphinx, such as `sphinx.sty`.
- PR#124: the node generated by `versionadded`, `versionchanged` and `deprecated` directives now includes all added markup (such as “New in version X”) as child nodes, and no additional text must be generated by writers.
- PR#99: the `seealso` directive now generates admonition nodes instead of the custom `seealso` node.

### Features added

- Markup
  - The `toctree` directive and the `toctree()` template function now have an `includehidden` option that includes hidden toctree entries (bugs #790 and #1047). A bug in the `maxdepth` option for the `toctree()` template function has been fixed (bug #1046).
  - PR#99: Strip down seealso directives to normal admonitions. This removes their unusual CSS classes (admonition-see-also), inconsistent LaTeX admonition title (“See Also” instead of “See also”), and spurious indentation in the text builder.
- HTML builder
  - #783: Create a link to full size image if it is scaled with width or height.
  - #1067: Improve the ordering of the JavaScript search results: matches in titles come before matches in full text, and object results are better categorized. Also implement a pluggable search scorer.
  - #1053: The “rightsidebar” and “collapsiblesidebar” HTML theme options now work together.
  - Update to jQuery 1.7.1 and Underscore.js 1.3.1.
- Texinfo builder
  - An “Index” node is no longer added when there are no entries.
  - “deffn” categories are no longer capitalized if they contain capital letters.
  - `desc_annotation` nodes are now rendered.
  - `strong` and `emphasis` nodes are now formatted like `literal`s. The reason for this is because the standard Texinfo markup (`*strong*` and `_emphasis_`) resulted in confusing output due to the common usage of using these constructs for documenting parameter names.
  - Field lists formatting has been tweaked to better display “Info field lists”.
  - `system_message` and `problematic` nodes are now formatted in a similar fashion as done by the text builder.
  - “en-dash” and “em-dash” conversion of hyphens is no longer performed in option directive signatures.
  - `@ref` is now used instead of `@pxref` for cross-references which prevents the word “see” from being added before the link (does not affect the Info output).
  - The `@finalout` command has been added for better TeX output.
  - `transition` nodes are now formatted using underscores (“_”) instead of asterisks (“*”).
  - The default value for the `paragraphindent` has been changed from 2 to 0 meaning that paragraphs are no longer indented by default.
  - #1110: A new configuration value `texinfo_no_detailmenu` has been added for controlling whether a `@detailmenu` is added in the “Top” node’s menu.
  - Detailed menus are no longer created except for the “Top” node.
  - Fixed an issue where duplicate domain indices would result in invalid output.
- LaTeX builder:
  - PR#115: Add `'transition'` item in `latex_elements` for customizing how transitions are displayed. Thanks to Jeff Klukas.
  - PR#114: The LaTeX writer now includes the “cmap” package by default. The `'cmappkg'` item in `latex_elements` can be used to control this. Thanks to Dmitry Shachnev.
  - The `'fontpkg'` item in `latex_elements` now defaults to `''` when the `language` uses the Cyrillic script. Suggested by Dmitry Shachnev.
  - The `latex_documents`, `texinfo_documents`, and `man_pages` configuration values will be set to default values based on the `master_doc` if not explicitly set in `conf.py`. Previously, if these values were not set, no output would be generated by their respective builders.
- Internationalization:
  - Add i18n capabilities for custom templates. For example: The Sphinx reference documentation in doc directory provides a `sphinx.pot` file with message strings from `doc/_templates/*.html` when using `make gettext`.
  - PR#61,#703: Add support for non-ASCII filename handling.
- Other builders:
  - Added the Docutils-native XML and pseudo-XML builders. See `XMLBuilder` and `PseudoXMLBuilder`.
  - PR#45: The linkcheck builder now checks `#anchor`s for existence.
  - PR#123, #1106: Add `epub_use_index` configuration value. If provided, it will be used instead of `html_use_index` for epub builder.
  - PR#126: Add `epub_tocscope` configuration value. The setting controls the generation of the epub toc. The user can now also include hidden toc entries.
  - PR#112: Add `epub_show_urls` configuration value.
- Extensions:
  - PR#52: `special_members` flag to autodoc now behaves like `members`.
  - PR#47: Added `sphinx.ext.linkcode` extension.
  - PR#25: In inheritance diagrams, the first line of the class docstring is now the tooltip for the class.
- Command-line interfaces:
  - PR#75: Added `--follow-links` option to sphinx-apidoc.
  - #869: sphinx-build now has the option `-T` for printing the full traceback after an unhandled exception.
  - sphinx-build now supports the standard `--help` and `--version` options.
  - sphinx-build now provides more specific error messages when called with invalid options or arguments.
  - sphinx-build now has a verbose option `-v` which can be repeated for greater effect. A single occurrence provides a slightly more verbose output than normal. Two or more occurrences of this option provides more detailed output which may be useful for debugging.
- Locales:
  - PR#74: Fix some Russian translation.
  - PR#54: Added Norwegian bokmaal translation.
  - PR#35: Added Slovak translation.
  - PR#28: Added Hungarian translation.
  - #1113: Add Hebrew locale.
  - #1097: Add Basque locale.
  - #1037: Fix typos in Polish translation. Thanks to Jakub Wilk.
  - #1012: Update Estonian translation.
- Optimizations:
  - Speed up building the search index by caching the results of the word stemming routines. Saves about 20 seconds when building the Python documentation.
  - PR#108: Add experimental support for parallel building with a new `sphinx-build -j` option.

### Documentation

- PR#88: Added the “Sphinx Developer’s Guide” (`doc/devguide.rst`) which outlines the basic development process of the Sphinx project.
- Added a detailed “Installing Sphinx” document (`doc/install.rst`).

### Bugs fixed

- PR#124: Fix paragraphs in versionmodified are ignored when it has no dangling paragraphs. Fix wrong html output (nested `<p>` tag). Fix versionmodified is not translatable. Thanks to Nozomu Kaneko.
- PR#111: Respect add_autodoc_attrgetter() even when inherited-members is set. Thanks to A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
- PR#97: Fix footnote handling in translated documents.
- Fix text writer not handling visit_legend for figure directive contents.
- Fix text builder not respecting wide/fullwidth characters: title underline width, table layout width and text wrap width.
- Fix leading space in LaTeX table header cells.
- #1132: Fix LaTeX table output for multi-row cells in the first column.
- #1128: Fix Unicode errors when trying to format time strings with a non-standard locale.
- #1127: Fix traceback when autodoc tries to tokenize a non-Python file.
- #1126: Fix double-hyphen to en-dash conversion in wrong places such as command-line option names in LaTeX.
- #1123: Allow whitespaces in filenames given to `literalinclude`.
- #1120: Added improvements about i18n for themes “basic”, “haiku” and “scrolls” that Sphinx built-in. Thanks to Leonardo J. Caballero G.
- #1118: Updated Spanish translation. Thanks to Leonardo J. Caballero G.
- #1117: Handle .pyx files in sphinx-apidoc.
- #1112: Avoid duplicate download files when referenced from documents in different ways (absolute/relative).
- #1111: Fix failure to find uppercase words in search when `html_search_language` is ‘ja’. Thanks to Tomo Saito.
- #1108: The text writer now correctly numbers enumerated lists with non-default start values (based on patch by Ewan Edwards).
- #1102: Support multi-context “with” statements in autodoc.
- #1090: Fix gettext not extracting glossary terms.
- #1074: Add environment version info to the generated search index to avoid compatibility issues with old builds.
- #1070: Avoid un-pickling issues when running Python 3 and the saved environment was created under Python 2.
- #1069: Fixed error caused when autodoc would try to format signatures of “partial” functions without keyword arguments (patch by Artur Gaspar).
- #1062: sphinx.ext.autodoc use __init__ method signature for class signature.
- #1055: Fix web support with relative path to source directory.
- #1043: Fix sphinx-quickstart asking again for yes/no questions because `input()` returns values with an extra ‘r’ on Python 3.2.0 + Windows. Thanks to Régis Décamps.
- #1041: Fix failure of the cpp domain parser to parse a const type with a modifier.
- #1038: Fix failure of the cpp domain parser to parse C+11 “static constexpr” declarations. Thanks to Jakub Wilk.
- #1029: Fix intersphinx_mapping values not being stable if the mapping has plural key/value set with Python 3.3.
- #1028: Fix line block output in the text builder.
- #1024: Improve Makefile/make.bat error message if Sphinx is not found. Thanks to Anatoly Techtonik.
- #1018: Fix “container” directive handling in the text builder.
- #1015: Stop overriding jQuery contains() in the JavaScript.
- #1010: Make pngmath images transparent by default; IE7+ should handle it.
- #1008: Fix test failures with Python 3.3.
- #995: Fix table-of-contents and page numbering for the LaTeX “howto” class.
- #976: Fix gettext does not extract index entries.
- PR#72: #975: Fix gettext not extracting definition terms before docutils 0.10.
- #961: Fix LaTeX output for triple quotes in code snippets.
- #958: Do not preserve `environment.pickle` after a failed build.
- #955: Fix i18n transformation.
- #940: Fix gettext does not extract figure caption.
- #920: Fix PIL packaging issue that allowed to import `Image` without PIL namespace. Thanks to Marc Schlaich.
- #723: Fix the search function on local files in WebKit based browsers.
- #440: Fix coarse timestamp resolution in some filesystem generating a wrong list of outdated files.

## Release 1.1.3 (Mar 10, 2012)

- PR#40: Fix `safe_repr` function to decode bytestrings with non-ASCII characters correctly.
- PR#37: Allow configuring sphinx-apidoc via `SPHINX_APIDOC_OPTIONS`.
- PR#34: Restore Python 2.4 compatibility.
- PR#36: Make the “bibliography to TOC” fix in LaTeX output specific to the document class.
- #695: When the highlight language “python” is specified explicitly, do not try to parse the code to recognize non-Python snippets.
- #859: Fix exception under certain circumstances when not finding appropriate objects to link to.
- #860: Do not crash when encountering invalid doctest examples, just emit a warning.
- #864: Fix crash with some settings of `modindex_common_prefix`.
- #862: Fix handling of `-D` and `-A` options on Python 3.
- #851: Recognize and warn about circular toctrees, instead of running into recursion errors.
- #853: Restore compatibility with docutils trunk.
- #852: Fix HtmlHelp index entry links again.
- #854: Fix inheritance_diagram raising attribute errors on builtins.
- #832: Fix crashes when putting comments or lone terms in a glossary.
- #834, #818: Fix HTML help language/encoding mapping for all Sphinx supported languages.
- #844: Fix crashes when dealing with Unicode output in doctest extension.
- #831: Provide `--project` flag in setup_command as advertised.
- #875: Fix reading config files under Python 3.
- #876: Fix quickstart test under Python 3.
- #870: Fix spurious KeyErrors when removing documents.
- #892: Fix single-HTML builder misbehaving with the master document in a subdirectory.
- #873: Fix assertion errors with empty `only` directives.
- #816: Fix encoding issues in the Qt help builder.

## Release 1.1.2 (Nov 1, 2011) – 1.1.1 is a silly version number anyway!

- #809: Include custom fixers in the source distribution.

## Release 1.1.1 (Nov 1, 2011)

- #791: Fix QtHelp, DevHelp and HtmlHelp index entry links.
- #792: Include “sphinx-apidoc” in the source distribution.
- #797: Don’t crash on a misformatted glossary.
- #801: Make intersphinx work properly without SSL support.
- #805: Make the `Sphinx.add_index_to_domain` method work correctly.
- #780: Fix Python 2.5 compatibility.

## 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.
- Bugs fixed:
  - #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 reports 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 `sphinx-build -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.

## Previous versions

The changelog for versions before 1.0 can be found in the file `CHANGES.old` in the source distribution or at Github.