Versioning schemes๏ƒ

The versioning scheme of your project defines the URL of your documentation, and if your project supports multiple versions or translations.

Read the Docs supports three different versioning schemes:

See also

How to change the versioning scheme of your project

How to configure your project to use a specific versioning scheme.

Versioned documentation

General explanation of how versioning works on Read the Docs.

Multiple versions with translations๏ƒ

This is the default versioning scheme, itโ€™s the recommend one if your project has multiple versions, and has or plans to support translations.

The URLs of your documentation will look like:

  • /en/latest/

  • /en/1.5/

  • /es/latest/install.html

  • /es/1.5/contributing.html

Multiple versions without translations๏ƒ

Use this versioning scheme if you want to have multiple versions of your documentation, but donโ€™t want to have translations.

The URLs of your documentation will look like:

  • /latest/

  • /1.5/install.html

Warning

This means you canโ€™t have translations for your documentation.

Single version without translations๏ƒ

Having a single version of a documentation project can be considered the better choice in cases where there should only always exist one unambiguous copy of your project. For example:

  • A research project may wish to only expose readers to their latest list of publications and research data.

  • A SaaS application might only ever have one version live.

The URLs of your documentation will look like:

  • /

  • /install.html

Warning

This means you canโ€™t have translations or multiple versions for your documentation.