Update dependency dev/Sphinx to v8 - autoclosed

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
dev/Sphinx (changelog)	==7.3.7 -> ==8.0.2

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Release Notes

sphinx-doc/sphinx (dev/Sphinx)

v8.0.2: Sphinx 8.0.2

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Changelog: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/changes.html

v8.0.1: Sphinx 8.0.1

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Changelog: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/changes.html

v8.0.0: Sphinx 8.0.0

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Changelog: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/changes.html

Dependencies

• #​12633: Drop Python 3.9 support.

Incompatible changes

• Remove deprecated functions from sphinx.util:

  • Removed sphinx.util.path_stabilize
    (use sphinx.util.osutil.path_stabilize).
  • Removed sphinx.util.display_chunk
    (use sphinx.util.display.display_chunk).
  • Removed sphinx.util.status_iterator
    (use sphinx.util.display.status_iterator).
  • Removed sphinx.util.SkipProgressMessage
    (use sphinx.util.display.SkipProgressMessage).
  • Removed sphinx.util.progress_message
    (use sphinx.util.display.progress_message).
  • Removed sphinx.util.epoch_to_rfc1123
    (use sphinx.http_date.epoch_to_rfc1123).
  • Removed sphinx.util.rfc1123_to_epoch
    (use sphinx.http_date.rfc1123_to_epoch).
  • Removed sphinx.util.save_traceback
    (use sphinx.exceptions.save_traceback).
  • Removed sphinx.util.format_exception_cut_frames
    (use sphinx.exceptions.format_exception_cut_frames).
  • Removed sphinx.util.xmlname_checker
    (use sphinx.builders.epub3._XML_NAME_PATTERN).

  Patch by Adam Turner.

• Removed sphinx.util.osutil.cd
  (use contextlib.chdir).
  Patch by Adam Turner.

• Removed sphinx.util.typing.stringify
  (use sphinx.util.typing.stringify_annotation).
  Patch by Adam Turner.

• #​12593: Raise an error for invalid html_sidebars values.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

• #​12593: Raise an error in Theme.get_config for invalid sections.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

• #​11693: Remove support for old-style Makefile and make.bat
  output in sphinx-quickstart.

• #​11693: Remove the --no-use-make-mode, -M,
  --use-make-mode, and -m options
  from sphinx-quickstart.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

• Removed the tuple interface to sphinx.ext.autodoc.ObjectMember.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

• #​12630: Sphinx 8 makes two changes to the linkcheck configuration defaults:

  • linkcheck_allow_unauthorized is now False by default.
  • linkcheck_report_timeouts_as_broken is now False by default.

  Patch by James Addison.

• #​12597: Change the default of show_warning_types
  from False to True.
  Patch by Chris Sewell.

• #​12083: Remove support for the old (2008--2010) Sphinx 0.5 and Sphinx 0.6
  intersphinx_mapping format.
  Patch by Bénédikt Tran and Adam Turner.

• #​12096: Do not overwrite user-supplied files when copying assets
  unless forced with force=True.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

• #​12646: Remove sphinx.util.inspect.isNewType.
  Use isinstance(obj, typing.NewType) instead on Python 3.10 and newer.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

• Remove the long-deprecated (since Sphinx 2) alias
  to VersionChange in
  sphinx.directives.other
  (Deprecated since Sphinx 2).
  Use sphinx.domains.changeset.VersionChange directly.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

Deprecated

• #​12643: Renamed sphinx.ext.intersphinx.normalize_intersphinx_mapping
  to sphinx.ext.intersphinx.validate_intersphinx_mapping.
  The old name will be removed in Sphinx 10.
  Patch by Adam Turner.
• #​12650, #​12686, #​12690: Extend the deprecation for string methods on
  pathlib.Path objects to Sphinx 9.
  Use os.fspath to convert :py:class:~pathlib.Path objects to strings,
  or pathlib.Path's methods to work with path objects.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

v7.4.7

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Bugs fixed

• #​12096: Warn when files are overwritten in the build directory.
  Patch by Adam Turner and Bénédikt Tran.
• #​12620: Ensure that old-style object description options are respected.
  Patch by Adam Turner.
• #​12601, #​12625: Support callable objects in :py:class:~typing.Annotated type
  metadata in the Python domain.
  Patch by Adam Turner.
• #​12601, #​12622: Resolve :py:class:~typing.Annotated warnings with
  sphinx.ext.autodoc,
  especially when using :mod:dataclasses as type metadata.
  Patch by Adam Turner.
• #​12589, #​12626: autosummary: Fix warnings with :rst:role:!autolink.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

v7.4.6

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Bugs fixed

• #​12589, #​9743, #​12609: autosummary: Do not add the package prefix when
  generating autosummary directives for modules within a package.
  Patch by Adam Turner.
• #​12613: Reduce log severity for ambiguity detection during inventory loading.
  Patch by James Addison.

v7.4.5

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Bugs fixed

• #​12593, #​12600: Revert coercing the type of selected :confval:html_sidebars
  values to a list.
  Log an error message when string values are detected.
  Patch by Adam Turner.
• #​12594: LaTeX: since 7.4.0, :rst:dir:seealso and other "light" admonitions
  now break PDF builds if they contain a :dudir:figure directive; and also
  if they are contained in a table cell (rendered by tabulary).
  Patch by Jean-François B.

v7.4.4

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Bugs fixed

• #​12585, #​12586: Do not warn when an intersphinx inventory contains
  case-insensitively ambiguous duplicate items.
  Patch by James Addison.

v7.4.3

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Bugs fixed

• #​12582: Restore support for list-styled :confval:source_suffix values
  with extensions that register parsers.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

v7.4.2

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Bugs fixed

• #​12580, #​12583: Resolve failures with the C domain on incremental builds
  with Sphinx 7.3.7 and earlier.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

v7.4.1

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Bugs fixed

• Fix invalid HTML when a rubric node with invalid heading-level is used.
  Patch by Adam Turner.
• #​12579, #​12581: Restore support for typing.ParamSpec in autodoc.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

v7.4.0

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Dependencies

• #​12555: Drop Docutils 0.18.1 and Docutils 0.19 support.
  Patch by Adam Turner.
• LaTeX: the xcolor package is now required (but is for example part of
  Ubuntu texlive-latex-recommended which has always been required).
• LaTeX: the fontawesome5 LaTeX package is needed for the default choices
  of icons now used in admonition titles in PDF output; but if unavailable the
  PDF build will simply silently omit rendering such icons. Check the
  documentation of the iconpackage key of :ref:'sphinxsetup' <latexsphinxsetup> for more.

Deprecated

• LaTeX: the sphinxlightbox environment is not used anymore, all types
  of admonitions use (by default) only sphinxheavybox.

Features added

.. rst-class:: compact

• #​11165: Support the officially recommended_ .jinja suffix for template
  files.
  Patch by James Addison and Adam Turner

  .. _officially recommended: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/latest/templates/#template-file-extension

• #​12325: Flatten Union[Literal[T], Literal[U], ...] to Literal[T, U, ...]
  when turning annotations into strings.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

• #​12319: sphinx.ext.extlinks: Add extlink-{name} CSS class to links.
  Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

• #​12387: Improve CLI progress message, when copying assets.
  Patch by INADA Nakoi and Bénédikt Tran.

• #​12361: Add :attr:.BuildEnvironment.parser.
  Patch by Chris Sewell.

• #​12358: Add :attr:.Sphinx.fresh_env_used.
  Patch by Chris Sewell.

• #​12329: Add detection of ambiguous std:label and std:term references during
  loading and resolution of Intersphinx targets.
  Patch by James Addison.

• #​12422: Do not duplicate "navigation" in aria-label of built-in themes.
  Patch by Thomas Weißschuh

• #​12421: Include project name in logo_alt of built-in themes.
  Patch by Thomas Weißschuh

• #​12448: Add :option:sphinx-apidoc --remove-old option.
  Patch by Chris Sewell.

• #​12456: Add :option:sphinx-autogen --remove-old option.
  Patch by Chris Sewell.

• #​12479: Add warning subtype toc.no_title.
  Patch by Ondřej Navrátil.

• #​12492: Add helper methods for parsing reStructuredText content into nodes from
  within a directive.

  • :py:meth:~sphinx.util.docutils.SphinxDirective.parse_content_to_nodes()
    parses the directive's content and returns a list of Docutils nodes.
  • :py:meth:~sphinx.util.docutils.SphinxDirective.parse_text_to_nodes()
    parses the provided text and returns a list of Docutils nodes.
  • :py:meth:~sphinx.util.docutils.SphinxDirective.parse_inline()
    parses the provided text into inline elements and text nodes.

  Patch by Adam Turner.

• #​12258: Support typing_extensions.Unpack
  Patch by Bénédikt Tran and Adam Turner.

• #​12524: Add a class option to the :rst:dir:toctree directive.
  Patch by Tim Hoffmann.

• #​12536: Add the :rst:dir:confval directive.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

• #​12537: :confval:c_id_attributes, :confval:c_paren_attributes,
  :confval:cpp_id_attributes, and :confval:cpp_paren_attributes
  can now be a tuple of strings.
  :confval:c_extra_keywords, :confval:gettext_additional_targets,
  :confval:html_domain_indices, :confval:latex_domain_indices,
  and :confval:texinfo_domain_indices,
  can now be a set of strings.
  Patch by Adam Turner.

• #​12523: Added configuration option, :confval:math_numsep, to define the
  separator for math numbering.
  Patch by Thomas Fanning

• #​11592: Add :confval:coverage_modules to the coverage builder
  to allow explicitly specifying which modules should be documented.
  Patch by Stephen Finucane.

• #​7896, #​11989: Add a :rst:dir:py:type directive for documenting type aliases,
  and a :rst:role:py:type role for linking to them.
  Patch by Ashley Whetter.

• #​12549: Add optional description argument to
  :meth:.Sphinx.add_config_value.
  Patch by Chris Sewell.

• #​6792: Prohibit module import cycles in :mod:sphinx.ext.autosummary.
  Patch by Trevor Bekolay.

• #​12508: LaTeX: Revamped styling of all admonitions, with addition of a
  title row with icon.
  Patch by Jean-François B.

• #​11773: Display :py:class:~typing.Annotated annotations
  with their metadata in the Python domain.
  Patch by Adam Turner and David Stansby.

• #​12506: Add heading-level option to :rst:dir:rubric directive.
  Patch by Chris Sewell.

• #​12567: Add the :event:write-started event.
  Patch by Chris Sewell.

Bugs fixed

• #​12314: Properly format collections.abc.Callable in annotations.
  Patch by Adam Turner.
• #​12162: Fix a performance regression in the C domain that has
  been present since version 3.0.0.
  Patch by Donald Hunter.
• #​12320: Fix removal of anchors from search summaries (regression in 7.3.0).
  Patch by Will Lachance.
• #​12251: Fix merge_domaindata() in sphinx.ext.duration.
  Patch by Matthias Geier.
• #​12224: Properly detect WebP files.
  Patch by Benjamin Cabé.
• #​12380: LaTeX: Avoid footnote markers Page N when N is already
  the current page number.
  Patch by Jean-François B.
• #​12410: LaTeX: for French and 'lualatex' as :confval:latex_engine
  use babel as with 'xelatex' (and not polyglossia).
  Patch by Jean-François B.
• #​12520: LaTeX: let :rst:dir:todolist produce correct hyperlinks in PDF.
  Patch by Jean-François B.
• #​12416: Ensure that configuration setting aliases are always synchronised
  when one value or the other is modified.
  Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
• #​12220: Fix loading custom template translations for en locale.
  Patch by Nicolas Peugnet.
• #​12459: Add valid-type arguments to the linkcheck_rate_limit_timeout
  configuration setting.
  Patch by James Addison.
• #​12331: Resolve data-URI-image-extraction regression from v7.3.0 affecting
  builders without native support for data-URIs in their output format.
  Patch by James Addison.
• #​12494: Fix invalid genindex.html file produced with translated docs
  (regression in 7.1.0).
  Patch by Nicolas Peugnet.
• #​11961: Omit anchor references from document title entries in the search index,
  removing duplication of search results.
  Patch by James Addison.
• #​12425: Use Docutils' SVG processing in the HTML builder
  and remove Sphinx's custom logic.
  Patch by Tunç Başar Köse.
• #​12391: Adjust scoring of matches during HTML search so that document main
  titles tend to rank higher than subsection titles. In addition, boost matches
  on the name of programming domain objects relative to title/subtitle matches.
  Patch by James Addison and Will Lachance.
• #​9634: Do not add a fallback language by stripping the country code.
  Patch by Alvin Wong.
• #​12352: Add domain objects to the table of contents
  in the same order as defined in the document.
  Previously, each domain used language-specific nesting rules,
  which removed control from document authors.
  Patch by Jakob Lykke Andersen and Adam Turner.
• #​11041: linkcheck: Ignore URLs that respond with non-Unicode content.
  Patch by James Addison.
• #​12543: Fix :pep:695 formatting for LaTeX output.
  Patch by Bénédikt Tran.

Testing

• karma: refactor HTML search tests to use fixtures generated by Sphinx.
  Patch by James Addison.

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