Changelog

v0.25.0 (2021-07-20)

• Enhancements

  • Handle remote types when generating signatures, e.g. @callback callback1(GenServer.options()) becomes callback1(options)
  • Support Markdown processor options
  • Add --paths command line argument to prepend directories to the code path when generating docs
  • Make shell prompt, $, not selectable for shell, sh, bash and zsh code blocks

• Bug fixes

  • Fix custom links to undefined/hidden references
  • Fix generating external links with :deps configuration
  • Add ellipsis to more sections

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • Remove function landing pages

v0.24.2 (2021-04-06)

• Enhancements

  • Support stepped range syntax

• Bug fixes

  • Add spaces on paragraph endings for search results
  • Fix bug defining app name in config
  • Fix rendering void elements (<br> etc)

v0.24.1 (2021-03-22)

• Bug fixes
  • Fix generating function landing pages

v0.24.0 (2021-03-16)

• Enhancements

  • Drop jQuery and refactor JavaScript codebase
  • Remove highlight.js in favour of migration to Makeup
  • Change autolink to return both path and hash for the current module
  • Add next/previous at the end of extra pages
  • Improve search input blur handling
  • Update erlang.org/man URL
  • Add function landing page

• Bug fixes

  • Ignore extensions when generating external links
  • Fix autolink to handle URIs with arbitrary scheme part without warning
  • Fix undefined reference warning for typespecs
  • Fix search click behavior when a suggestion refers the current page
  • Don't crash when we can't format spec
  • Fix HTML escaping

v0.23.0 (2020-10-12)

Requires Elixir v1.10.

• Enhancements

  • Improve warnings on broken references
  • Support Elixir v1.12-dev

• Bug fixes

  • Respect deps config in autolink
  • Fix html escaping in the sidebar entries
  • Fix retrieving specs for macros with when
  • Raise if none of :name or :app are found in mix.exs
  • Don't crash on code blocks like "A.b.C"

v0.22.6 (2020-09-16)

• Bug fixes
  • Properly fix CSS bug on headings
  • Add expansion arrow to sections on sidebar

v0.22.5 (2020-09-13)

• Bug fixes
  • Fix CSS bug on headings

v0.22.4 (2020-09-12)

• Enhancements
  • Improve accessibility and add aria labels
  • Show different title and message for a empty search value

v0.22.3 (2020-07-25)

• Bug fixes
  • [HTML+EPUB] Remove overlapping functions from defaults
  • [HTML] Don't show tooltip for module sections and non-html files
  • [HTML] Make sure tooltips work with escape ids.

v0.22.2 (2020-07-20)

• Enhancements

  • [HTML+EPUB] Add support for path dependent markdown autolink (feeddc1)
  • [HTML+EPUB] Improve auto-linking to callbacks and types (12c0a01)
  • [HTML+EPUB] Replace <kbd> with <kbd><kbd> when it represents keys to be hit (bd2b8df)
  • [HTML] Hide sidebar-over-content on click/tap outside it (b050775)
  • [HTML] Redirect to correct file when changing version (0f6f24b)
  • [mix docs] Allow files with no extension in extra files (26b93b6)
  • [mix docs] Link to siblings in an umbrella (b0d6fdd)
  • [mix docs] Switch to earmark_parser. Run mix deps.unlock --unused to remove the now unused earmark dependency. (021c772)

• Bug fixes

  • [HTML+EPUB] Bring back auto-linking to Kernel and Kernel.SpecialForms (fa174eb)
  • [HTML+EPUB] Escape HTML special characters in signature (5fed479)
  • [HTML+EPUB] Fix auto-linking ./2 and ../2 (2e40acb)
  • [HTML+EPUB] Fix list of basic types to auto-link (6df4a3b)
  • [HTML+EPUB] Make HTML valid (1187ace)
  • [HTML] Escape HTML special characters in sidebar (d26ca71)
  • [HTML] Fix keyboard shortcuts on non US keyboard layouts (829c4ee)
  • [HTML] Fix text overflow in sidebar (a4ff547)
  • [HTML] Handle snake case terms in search results (d511d55)
  • [mix docs] Don't crash on markdown that triggers warning (e7cb79c)

v0.22.1 (2020-05-19)

• Bug fixes
  • [mix docs] Depend on earmark ~> 1.4.0
  • [mix docs] Don't crash on comments in markdown
  • [mix docs] Don't crash on HTML in markdown

v0.22.0 (2020-05-11)

• Enhancements

  • [EPUB] Add epub to the default formatters
  • [HTML+EPUB] Move specs out of signature
  • [HTML+EPUB] Auto-link "erlang" types & callbacks
  • [HTML+EPUB] Auto-link "erlang" modules in custom links
  • [mix docs] Warn on broken references in dependencies (e.g. `String.upcase/9`)
  • [escript] Add --app
  • [HTML+EPUB] Auto-link to extras (e.g. [foo](foo.md))
  • [mix docs] Undefined references warning now includes the filename
  • [mix docs] :skip_undefined_reference_warnings_on now also accepts a filename
  • [HTML+EPUB] Display moduledoc headings in the sidebar

• Bug fixes

  • [HTML] Fix hidden text selection, hide tooltips for details link
  • [HTML+EPUB] Fix function name sorting (group operators together)
  • [HTML+EPUB] Fix displaying nested modules

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • [mix docs] Remove built-in support for cmark markdown processor
  • [mix docs] Replace ExDoc.Markdown.to_html/2 with to_ast/2
  • [HTML+EPUB] Remove auto-linking for local calls to Kernel & Kernel.SpecialForms, use fully qualified calls instead. (e.g. replace `==/2` with `Kernel.==/2`.)
  • [mix docs] :skip_undefined_reference_warnings_on no longer accepts extras id, use extras filename instead.

v0.21.3

• Enhancements

  • [HTML] Make "Exceptions" a module sub-grouping instead of a top-level group
  • [HTML] Automatically group deprecated modules
  • [HTML] Rely on prefers-color-scheme w/o night mode set
  • [HTML] Boost title on search results, add fun/arity to title
  • [mix docs] Initial work on support for multiple languages

• Bug fixes

  • [HTML] Many improvements to the search engine
  • [mix docs] Link to callback docs instead of copying them

v0.21.2

• Enhancements

  • [HTML] Add hardcoded packages to the quick-switch search results
  • [HTML] Filter out packages without docs on HexDocs in quick-switch
  • [HTML+EPUB] Support autolinking for multiple arities
  • [mix docs] Avoid deprecation warnings on more recent earmark versions
  • [mix docs] Warn on unavailable local functions
  • [mix docs] Make invalid index redirect warning case-sensitive
  • [mix docs] Ignore non-Elixir modules when missing chunk

• Bug fixes

  • [HTML+EPUB] Do not create a custom link when destination does not exist
  • [EPUB] Hide screen reader elements

v0.21.1

• Bug fixes
  • [HTML] Make sure package selector can be reopened after closed with ESC
  • [HTML] Ensure tooltip pages can be cached
  • [HTML] Support large version numbers on the version dropdown
  • [mix docs] Raise nice exception for missing ExDoc.Config

v0.21.0

• Enhancements

  • [HTML] Add support for reference popovers
  • [HTML] Provide a "g" shortcut to Go To a Hexdocs package (with autocomplete)
  • [HTML] Detect if browser prefers night mode
  • [EPUB] Add support for covers and the authors field

• Bug fixes

  • [HTML+EPUB] Ensure that link headers generate unique IDs
  • [HTML+EPUB] Sort structs fields so field names are always ordered
  • [HTML+EPUB] Do not strip "Elixir." prefix from module names
  • [HTML] Support URLs with non-HTML safe characters
  • [EPUB] Fix table of contents without groups

v0.20.2

• Enhancements

  • Add "mix " prefix to Mix tasks

• Bug fixes

  • Improve scrolling on Safari
  • Prevent text casing of codes
  • Do not remove stop words from search and make sure function names are searchable in isolation
  • Reduce the size of the search metadata
  • Remove outline on focus and keep width in version dropdown
  • Do not fail if we can't persist index

v0.20.1

• Bug fixes
  • Hide the spinner when no term is searched
  • Use ? for the shortcut hint text
  • Improve style of the version dropdown

v0.20.0

• Enhancements

  • Rework the search bar to provide autocompletion
  • Provide full-text search
  • Automatically generate documentation for defdelegate definitions (requires Elixir v1.8+)
  • Provide keyboard shortcuts (press ? to see all available outputs) or click the link at the bottom of the page
  • Add support for versions dropdown to the HTML sidebar. This requires adding a docs_config.js (also configurable) that sets a versionNodes JavaScript variable.
  • Improve mouseover titles on sidebar navigation

• Bug fixes

  • Do not hide structs in type/callback summary signatures
  • No longer require double click to open up a sidebar on Mobile Safari
  • Keep trailing periods in summaries
  • Fix typespec arg number to start from 1 instead of 0

v0.19.3

• Enhancements

  • Include a "goto" link on mouseover for expandable menu items

• Bug fixes

  • Always expand menu items, even if has a single child
  • Fix sidebar bottom margin on Firefox
  • Fix anchor links sometimes not working by moving JS to HTML head
  • Unify code styling for makeup and hljs
  • Do not replace the content of custom links pointing to Elixir modules
  • Remove border-left on deprecated to not mistake it with a heading

v0.19.2

• Enhancements

  • Allow logo in SVG extension
  • Allow functions to be grouped based on metadata
  • Allow api-reference.html page to be disabled
  • Allow nesting of modules by prefix
  • Autolink mix help TASK
  • Warn on undefined remote functions from project's docs

• Bug fixes

  • Sort function names alphabetically in the sidebar
  • Fix search input color
  • Disable earmark smartypants option

v0.19.1

• Enhancements
  • Update CSS styles
  • Remove sourcemaps from package

v0.19.0

This release requires Elixir v1.7 and later. For earlier Elixir versions, use ExDoc ~> 0.18.0.

• Enhancements

  • Do not select "iex>" when selecting code samples
  • Use makeup to perform ELixir's syntax highlighting (other languages still use highlight.js)
  • Use [rel="noopener"] on external links
  • Link directly to page if sidebar item has no subitems
  • Autolink Kernel and Kernel functions and special forms with shorthands (for example, only is_atom/1 is necessary)
  • Trim EEx contents to reduce HTML size
  • Allow apps to be excluded from umbrella app docs

• Bug fixes

  • Exclude types with @typedoc false from the docs
  • Make sure autolink considers the longest matching dependency name in case of shared prefixes

v0.18.3

• Bug fix
  • Fix formatting of typespecs causing errors
  • Update jQuery
  • Properly remove underscore from typespec links

v0.18.2

• Enhancements
  • Improve documentation pages for printing
  • Autolink Kernel, Kernel.SpecialForms, and built-in types
  • Annotate opaque types
  • Add vertical-align:top to tables
  • Allow module-function-arity references in links
  • Remove underscore from view source link
  • Run code formatter on typespecs (if one is available)
  • Make night mode switch link more obvious

v0.18.1

• Bug fixes
  • Include missing formatter files

v0.18.0

• Enhancements

  • No longer strip empty parens from types
  • Provide more extension point for markdown processors
  • Remove assets from priv since they are now embedded at compile time

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • Remove built-in support for hoedown markdown processor
  • No longer add favicon when logo option is present (this was added in 0.17.0 but it was reported the logo almost never fits as a favicon)

v0.17.1

• Bug fixes
  • Fix broken search caused by outdated JavaScript files

v0.17.0

• Enhancements

  • Allow modules to be grouped on the sidebar with the :groups_for_modules option
  • Allow extras to be grouped on the sidebar with the :groups_for_extras option

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • The previous :group option that could be specified for each entry in :extras is no longer supported
  • No longer add a specific section for "Protocols". If you would like to segregate the protocols in your application, use the new :groups_for_modules functionality

v0.16.4

• Enhancements

  • Generate favicon link if a logo is available

• Bug fixes

  • Do not version epub filename as the doc directory is likely already versioned

v0.16.3

• Enhancements

  • Make sure its own search.html page and provide history
  • Generate source maps only if the --debug flag is given
  • Users can now add custom HTML before the closing head tag and the closing body tag
  • Highlight the target function/macro/type/callback when clicked

• Bug fixes

  • Remove extra term() argument at start of macro spec
  • Add unencoded link target for functions with special chars to cope with different behaviour in browsers

v0.16.2

• Enhancements
  • Link <h3> headers as well
  • Add border to code tag
• Bug fixes
  • Fix sidebar on mobile devices

v0.16.1

• Bug fixes
  • Fix hover icons coloring

v0.16.0

• Enhancements

  • Separate tasks into "Mix Tasks" in sidebar
  • Add types to the search results
  • Improve accessibility

• Bug fixes

  • Strip nesting HTML tags in h2 headers
  • Remove the old search results after every new search attempt

v0.15.1

• Bug fixes
  • Improve project name wrapping on HTML
  • Properly set link in types with parameter
  • Fix ExDoc.CLI.main/2 to keep --source-ref on Elixir v1.4
  • Do not fail if localStorage is not available

v0.15.0

• Enhancements

  • Closing the search takes you to where you were in the previous page
  • Handle __struct__/0 by displaying the struct instead
  • Warn when redirecting to a non-existent file
  • List both functions and macros under "Functions"
  • Automatically detect GitLab source URL patterns

• Bug fixes

  • Break long specs into lines
  • Fix the initial state of the sidebar hamburger
  • Do not error when abstract code is missing
  • Properly link to erlang lib dirs

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • No longer support Pandoc
  • Require Earmark 1.1

v0.14.5

• Enhancements
  • Allow ExDoc to work as an escript

v0.14.4

• Enhancements
  • Point to Elixir docs on hexdocs.pm
  • Many improvements to layout and styling of EPUB formatter
  • Support multiple formatters to be configured on mix.exs
  • Also digest sidebar_items.js
  • Force parentheses on type signature to remove ambiguity
  • Generate top-level docs for an umbrella project
  • Searching on mobile closes menu when the Enter key is hit

v0.14.3

• Enhancements

  • Support the :assets option that automatically copies all entries in the given directory to doc/assets
  • Remove numbering on Extras subheaders from sidebar
  • Pass file and line information to markdown formatters for better warnings
  • Allow extra pages to be grouped together under a given heading
  • Generate ids for default name/arity pairs so they can be linked (both remotely and locally)

• Bug fixes

  • Fix autolink for functions containing %, {, } or uppercase characters in the name

v0.14.2

• Enhancements

  • Automatically generate documentations links to any of your dependencies (by default links to hexdocs.pm but allows the URL to be configured)
  • Allow documentation to be generated to Erlang modules

• Bug fixes

  • Make sure "Top" is not included twice on pages

v0.14.1

• Bug fixes
  • Include "Top" link in pages with no headings
  • Include "Top" link in modules with no docs

v0.14.0

• Enhancements

  • Add support for the epub formatter
  • Support extraction from <h2> headers out of the settext format

• Layout changes

  • Indent documentation inside the function/macro/type/callback header
  • Style types the same way as function/macro/callback and include a link to the source
  • Increase font-sizes in the sidebar and code snippets
  • Move the specs definition inside the function/macro/type/callback header and make better use of vertical space
  • Use a gradient on the sidebar to avoid sudden cut-off when scrolling the modules list
  • Fix the use of the back-button in some browsers
  • Allow the whole sidebar to be navigated without moving away from the current page. Expand (+) and collapse (-) buttons have been added to aid exploration
  • Numerically order pages/guides headers

v0.13.2

• Bug fixes
  • Avoid scrollbar from appearing on all code snippets

v0.13.1

• Enhancements

  • Autolink Elixir's stdlib modules and functions
  • Show callbacks in search results
  • Reduce size taken by font-sizes
  • Increase size for headings in the moduledoc

• Bug fixes

  • Fix opened sidebar on small screens
  • Allow horizontal scrolling for code snippets on small screens

v0.13.0

• Bug fixes

  • Fix issue where docs would fail when being built on Erlang 19
  • Store templates in priv rather than in lib

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • Require Elixir ~> v1.2

v0.12.0

• Enhancements

  • Remove warnings when running on Elixir v1.3
  • Support for @optional_callbacks
  • Improve styling for nested lists
  • Include earmark as a default dependency

• Bug fixes

  • Fix many styling and performance front-end related bugs

v0.11.5

• Enhancements

  • Support canonical URLs

• Bug fixes

  • Autolink now allows digits in function names
  • Sort specs by line to preserve ordering
  • Focus on content element on document ready
  • Remove ligature fix on Firefox and Safari as Google Fonts have been updated

v0.11.4

• Bug fixes
  • Fix ligature issues in recent browsers
  • HTML escape headers
  • Avoid warning on Elixir master (v1.3)

v0.11.3

• Bug fixes
  • Fix a regression where the sidebar wouldn't stick on small screens

v0.11.2

• Enhancements

  • Include night mode for docs
  • Take advantage of extra space on large screens by widening sidebar

• Bug fixes

  • Do not attempt to retrieve docs from Erlang modules

v0.11.1

• Bug fixes
  • Include callbacks even if a module defines a struct

v0.11.0

• Enhancements

  • From now on it's possible to set the title in the sidebar area for additional content, default: "Pages"
  • Set the path and title of each additional page in mix.exs file
  • Use the first h1 as menu title if title is not configured
  • Include the project name as part of the header in small devices

• Bug fixes

  • Increase the visual separation between functions
  • Remove the extra- prefix for the additional documentation files
  • Extra large images do not create an overflow in the content

v0.10.0

• Enhancements
  • Many improvements and bug fixes in new layout
  • Reduced build size
  • Overview has been renamed to API Reference
  • All extra content, including API Reference, has been moved to inside "Pages"
  • Extra files are now downcased and prefixed by extra-

v0.9.0

• Enhancements

  • Whole new clean, readable, usable, responsive layout
  • Support for adding logo to generated docs (must be 64x64 pixels)
  • Support for adding extra pages to generated docs
  • Improve formatting of typespecs and callbacks

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • --readme option and :readme configuration have been removed. Use :extras in your mix.exs file or pass --extra / -e in the command-line (may be given multiple times)

v0.8.4

• Bug fixes
  • Generate README.html file instead of readme.html as in previous releases
  • Style fixes in the new layout

v0.8.3

• Bug fixes
  • Style fixes in the new layout

v0.8.2

• Enhancements

  • Uglify and minify JS and CSS code
  • Performance improvements when building sidebar
  • Redirect from index.html to proper page

• Bug fixes

  • Style fixes in the new layout

v0.8.1

• Bug fixes
  • Style fixes in the new layout

v0.8.0

• Enhancements
  • New and responsive layout without frames

v0.7.3

• Bug fixes
  • Update highlight.js with fixes some inlining issues
  • Require latest Earmark

v0.7.2

• Bug fixes
  • Support Elixir master
  • Fix error reporting when modules are compiled without docs

v0.7.1

• Enhancements
  • Use type=search for search input
  • Update highlight.js dependency
  • Properly tag code comments as coming from Elixir/IEx unless noted otherwise
  • Add support for hash redirection

v0.7.0

• Enhancements
  • Documentation is now generated at doc to follow OTP "standard"

v0.6.2

• Enhancements
  • Improvements to the document structure
  • Add syntax highlight

v0.6.1

• Enhancements
  • Autolink modules and functions in the README
  • Generate ids for callbacks starting with "c:"
  • Ensure group ordering is consistent: TYPES > FUNCTIONS > MACROS > CALLBACKS
  • Allow users to search by Module.function

v0.6.0

• Enhancements
  • Support Elixir v1.0.0-rc1

v0.5.2

• Bug fixes
  • Use proper ANSI escape sequence on Mix success messages

v0.5.1

• Enhancements
  • Support Elixir v0.15.0
  • Add support for Earmark - no need for external processors

v0.5.0

• Enhancements
  • First public release
  • Support pandoc and devinus/markdown as markdown processors