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Dependencies
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* Support jinja2-3.0

Deprecated
----------

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

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

- ``inline`` variables,
- ``consteval`` functions,
- ``constinit`` variables,
- ``char8_t``,
- ``explicit(<constant expression>)`` specifier,
- digit separators in literals, and
- constraints in placeholder type specifiers, aka. adjective syntax
 (e.g., ``Sortable auto &v``).

* C, add support for digit separators in literals.
* 9166: LaTeX: support containers in LaTeX output


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