Building With Pre-1.0 Versions Of MkDocs¶

Recent changes to mkdocs forced us to upgrade the default version installed by Read the Docs and this may be a breaking change for your documentation.

You should check that your docs continue building in any of these cases:

your project doesn't have a requirements.txt file pinning mkdocs to a specific version
your project is using a custom theme
your project is using Markdown extensions

In case your builds are failing because of a mkdocs issue, you may want to follow one of the following solutions depending on the case.

Pin MkDocs to an older version¶

Before Read the Docs upgraded its default version installed, mkdocs==0.15.0 was used. To make your project continue using this version you will need to create a requirements.txt file with this content:

# requirements.txt
mkdocs==0.15.0
mkdocs-bootstrap==0.1.1
mkdocs-bootswatch==0.1.0
markdown>=2.3.1,<2.5

More detailed information about how to specify dependencies can be found here.

Upgrade your custom theme to be compatible with later MkDocs versions¶

It is possible that your build passes but your documentation doesn't look correct. This may be because newer MkDocs versions installed by Read the Docs introduced some breaking changes on the structure of the theme.

You should check the mkdocs' Custom Theme documentation to upgrade your custom theme and make it compatible with the new version.

Upgrade how extension arguments are defined¶

MkDocs has changed the way that markdown_extensions are defined and you may need to upgrade it. If you where passing arguments to the extension by defining them between brackets (toc(permalink=true)) in your mkdocs.yaml you may need to upgrade it to the new way.

For example, this definition:

markdown_extensions:
  - admonition
  - codehilite(guess_lang=false)
  - toc(permalink=true)
  - footnotes
  - meta

needs to be replaced by:

markdown_extensions:
  - admonition
  - codehilite
      guess_lang: false
  - toc
      permalink: true
  - footnotes
  - meta