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Release 4.1.0 (released Jul 12, 2021)

Dependencies

• 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

• #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

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• bdcd161 Bump to 4.1.0 final
• 4a2f5df Merge branch '9299' into 4.x
• e6d3adf intersphinx: Add testcase for case insensitive term match (refs: #9299)
• 573db83 Update CHANGES for PR #9225
• f40c283 Merge pull request #9225 from doerwalter/typehint-html
• 5aed23d Merge pull request #9429 from sphinx-doc/bot/pull-translations
• 9587fd1 Update message catalogs
• beea084 Merge pull request #9411 from tk0miya/9404_TypeError_for_non_class
• fe03723 Fix #9404: autodoc: autoclass raises TypeError for dict-like object
• ac2b9a4 Update CHANGES for PR #9427
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