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docs: versioned docs per release (/vX.Y/, /latest/, /dev/)

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
c, shell

Research direction

The docs are in the docs/ directory; the release workflow and build system need changes to publish per-version docs. Start by examining the existing documentation build script (likely a shell script or Makefile) and the GitHub Actions workflow for releases. Understand how the current site is deployed. The goal is to create a structure where each release tag's docs are published under /vX.Y/, /latest/ points to the newest release, and main's docs go to /dev/. This involves versioning the docs, adding version markers to pages, and ensuring old versions remain accessible.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

area:docs help wanted kind:decision

Problem. The docs site is built from main only. A user on the latest release (v0.43.0) reads docs for whatever is on main, which can describe features, flags or semantics their binary does not have.

What mature languages do. docs.python.org/3.12/, docs.rs//, and pkg.go.dev's version tab all serve each release's docs, with a stable "latest".

Bar.

  1. Each release tag's docs/ is published under /v<major.minor>/, and /latest/ points at the newest release. main's docs are published under /dev/ (or equivalent), clearly labelled unreleased.
  2. Every page carries a visible version marker, with a link to the same page in other versions where it exists.
  3. The release-cut workflow publishes the new version's docs, and the playground is built from the same tag.
  4. Old versions keep working after a new release (a link check against at least the previous version).

Ranked #5 of the docs follow-ups (2026-09-22 comparison with other languages). Most work; matters most once there are outside users.

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C
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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