Issues

• 🐛 A reStructuredText label written directly before a need directive crashes the build (KeyError in the std domain)

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2126 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 7, 2026

• 🐛 NeedItem.__setitem__ accepts a wrong-typed extra field from an extension, and a later needextend :+field: then crashes the build

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2124 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 7, 2026

• ❓ needextend: an extend whose every option was skipped still counts as a modification of the needs it matched

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2123 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 7, 2026

• 🐛 A Need node from an included fragment pairs the host document as its source with the fragment's line number

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2122 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 7, 2026

• 🐛 Under -j N, a need created without a docname that loses a duplicate-id merge is neither dropped nor warned about

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2121 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 7, 2026

• 🐛 A dynamic or variant function whose closing brackets are missing is applied silently when its inside still parses

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2120 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 7, 2026

• 👌 sphinx-test-reports: a capitalised tr_extra_options name can never be given on a directive (docutils lowercases option names)

  enhancementP5pkg: sphinx-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2115 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 7, 2026

• 🐛 After a -j N build with a duplicate id, deleting the winner's document drops the need from needs.json and crashes the next write of the loser's page

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2100 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 6, 2026

• 🐛 sphinx-codelinks: a header and its source file share one generated source page

  bugpkg: sphinx-codelinks
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2099 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 6, 2026

• 🐛 sphinx-codelinks: two projects whose source directories share a name share one copy root in the HTML output

  bugpkg: sphinx-codelinks
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2098 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 6, 2026

• ❓ sphinx-codelinks: source pages, copies and the root .ignore in epub output (warnings; viewcode's policy?)

  pkg: sphinx-codelinksquestion
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2097 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 6, 2026

• ❓ sphinx-codelinks: should local URLs copy sources into the HTML output? (design of set_local_url)

  feedback neededpkg: sphinx-codelinksquestion
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2095 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 6, 2026

• constraints set by needextend or by a dynamic function is silently dropped

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2075 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 6, 2026

• The [needs.schema] table of the TOML file is never read: keys are skipped silently or crash the build

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2072 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 6, 2026

• 👌 test-reports: the configuration vocabulary follows the per-field model (extra_options → fields, *_option → *_field, property_link_types → property_links, type name → title)

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-test-reportspkg: ub-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2066 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 6, 2026
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• Dynamic functions, phase 0: the contained fixes before the dependency-ordered resolver (#2030 step 0)

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2064 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 6, 2026

• 👌 test-reports: specify the report grammar, time as a number and the url_pattern placeholders in language-neutral terms

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-test-reportspkg: ub-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2063 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 6, 2026

• 🔧 sphinx-codelinks: declare the URL fields' links on the fields (add_field(link=)) once #2048 exposes a per-field link

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-codelinks
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2061 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 5, 2026

• 📚 docs: the python intersphinx inventory is pinned to the EOL 3.8, which lacks re.Pattern

  documentationP4pkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2060 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 5, 2026

• ♻️ sphinx-test-reports 4.0 candidates: freeze directive names, deprecate the positional type list in TOML, a declarative json_mapping, Jinja templates

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-test-reportspkg: ub-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2057 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 5, 2026

• 📚 sphinx-test-reports: seven places where the docs and the code disagree

  documentationpkg: sphinx-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2056 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 5, 2026

• 👌 test-reports: converge the directive route and the converter route — content rendering, one link-property key, the report path

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-test-reportspkg: ub-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2055 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 5, 2026
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• 🐛 sphinx-test-reports: file and suite counters sum the parser's -1 sentinels (skipped: -2)

  bugpkg: sphinx-test-reportspkg: ub-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2054 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 5, 2026

• 🐛 sphinx-test-reports: legacy ids fail the default needs_id_regex, and the auto ids collide at realistic report sizes

  bugpkg: sphinx-test-reportspkg: ub-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2053 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 5, 2026

• 🐛 sphinx-test-reports: user-caused failures are uncaught crashes (BaseException errors, bare Exceptions) instead of typed test_reports.* warnings

  bugpkg: sphinx-test-reportspkg: ub-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2052 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 5, 2026
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