Just a quick note at the top, we have scheduled database maintenance on February 14, 2025. There may be brief periods of downtime during this maintenance window, but read the post for full details.

News and updates

• We migrated our official documentation to docs.readthedocs.com, with the primary user documentation at https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/.
• We are working to improve the process of changing the slug of a Version. This will make it easier to change the URL of a version without creating a new version. This is currently being tested in production and will be available soon.
• We added support for changing the flyout position in Addons, which allows you to control where the flyout appears on your documentation site.
• Our Visual diff feature is getting closer to being widely released. This includes a user-facing UX for seeing what files changed in a PR build, and a way to see the visual diff.
• We documented Addons customization patterns to help you understand how to customize Addons for your project.

Upcoming changes

• We are working to implement a GitHub Application, which will allow us to provide better integration with GitHub. This enables granular permissions, organization webhooks, and other long-standing feature requests.
• We continue focus on polishing the UX around Addons, trying to make it easier to use and understand how to customize them.

Possible issues

• We continue to fight battles with spammers, and now we are getting some phishing attempts happening on the platform. As a result, we have had to increase the strictness of our spam checking. If you see any issues with new projects getting marked as spam, please let us know.
• Our old dashboard will be removed on March 11. If you haven't already, please switch to the new dashboard.
• Deprecation of projects using Sphinx or MkDocs without an explicit configuration file. This was fully removed on January 20, 2025.

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