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<p>Just a quick note at the top, we have <a href="https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/02/postgres-maint-feb-14/">scheduled database maintenance on February 14, 2025</a>. There may be brief …</p>

<p>Just a quick note at the top, we have <a href="https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/02/postgres-maint-feb-14/">scheduled database maintenance on February 14, 2025</a>. There may be brief periods of downtime during this maintenance window, but read the post for full details.</p> <h2 id="news-and-updates">News and updates</h2> <ul> <li>We migrated our official documentation to <code>docs.readthedocs.com</code>, with the primary user documentation at <a href="https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/">https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/</a>.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>We <a href="https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/flyout-menu.html#position">added support for changing the flyout position in Addons</a>, which allows you to control where the flyout appears on your documentation site.</li> <li>Our <a href="https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/visual-diff.html">Visual diff</a> 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.</li> <li>We <a href="https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/addons.html#addons-data-and-customization">documented Addons customization patterns</a> to help you understand how to customize Addons for your project.</li> </ul> <h2 id="upcoming-changes">Upcoming changes</h2> <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>We continue focus on polishing the UX around Addons, trying to make it easier to use and understand how to customize them.</li> </ul> <h2 id="possible-issues">Possible issues</h2> <ul> <li>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, <a href="https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/support.html">please let us know</a>.</li> <li>Our old dashboard will be <a href="https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/11/rollout-of-our-new-dashboard/">removed on March 11</a>. If you haven't already, please switch to the new dashboard.</li> <li><a href="https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/12/deprecate-config-files-without-sphinx-or-mkdocs-config/">Deprecation of projects using Sphinx or MkDocs without an explicit configuration file</a>. This was fully removed on <strong>January 20, 2025</strong>.</li> </ul> <hr> <p>Questions? Comments? Ideas for the next newsletter? <a href="mailto:hello@readthedocs.org">Contact us</a>!</p>