Issues

• 🐛 needimport and external needs turn a deliberately cleared value back into the default: keep a stated null when the file's own needs_schema default is not null

  bugpkg: sphinx-needspkg: ub-needs-exchange
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2496 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Nov 6, 2026

• 🐛 needtable and needflow split a link to a need part differently from link resolution

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2488 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Nov 5, 2026

• 🐛 list2need, needgantt and needsequence warnings name the page with a line from another file

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2480 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Nov 4, 2026

• ✨ A conf.py home for variant data outside needs_, mirroring [variants] data / data_file

  enhancementfeedback neededpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2471 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Nov 3, 2026

• ✨ (tentative) Unify need templates: retire :template: / :pre_template: / :post_template: / :jinja_content: in favour of sphinx-ub-directives

  enhancementfeedback neededpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2470 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Nov 3, 2026

• ✨ ub-project: resolve extend, so the Sphinx tools read inherited ubproject.toml tables

  enhancementpkg: ub-project
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2469 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Nov 3, 2026

• 🧪 sphinx-codelinks: a test that src/ imports no private Sphinx-Needs name, and only allowlisted names outside sphinx_needs.api

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-codelinks
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2457 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Nov 1, 2026

• 🐛 A mount reached through a symlink gives its pages a resolved path in sphinx-mounts and a lexical one in ubCode

  bugpkg: sphinx-mounts
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2450 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 31, 2026

• 👌 sphinx-codelinks: a Rust method's qualified name depends on how its impl spells the type (Sq::side vs super::Sq::side)

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-codelinks
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2449 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 31, 2026

• 🐛 sphinx-codelinks' default URL field names (local-url, remote-url) cannot be named in a filter

  bugpkg: sphinx-codelinks
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2447 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 31, 2026

• 🐛 A need type registered after the schema is created is missing from c.is_a's types, and is reported as no need type

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2446 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 31, 2026

• 👌 Sliced includes: nested, list2need-content, table-cell and generated needs still record the slice's line

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2442 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 31, 2026

• 🐛 A need in an included file is located in warnings as the host page with the fragment's line

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2441 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 31, 2026

• 🧪 A stored-shape fingerprint test for sphinx-codelinks' and sphinx-test-reports' env_version, shared through the testkit

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-codelinkspkg: sphinx-needs-testkitpkg: sphinx-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2439 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 31, 2026

• 🐛 A sphinx-8 cell run re-syncs the default .venv onto the cell's interpreter (fetch-plantuml inherits UV_PYTHON)

  bugpkg: workspace
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2438 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 31, 2026

• 🐛 sphinx-test-reports: editing tr_report_template re-reads nothing in an incremental build

  bugpkg: sphinx-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2427 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 30, 2026

• 🐛 sphinx-test-reports: a test directive without 🆔 gets an id from its type's name (testfile0FE7D), which the default id regex refuses

  bugpkg: sphinx-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2422 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 30, 2026

• ♻️ 10.0: remove add_need and the five deprecated NeedItemSource* names

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2421 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 30, 2026
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• 🐛 A content_links derive warns 'no stored node' on every hidden need

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2417 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 30, 2026

• ❓ list2need: the children of a hidden item are not that item's children

  enhancementpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2416 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 30, 2026

• 🐛 :need_outgoing: / :need_incoming: naming a need that does not exist raises a KeyError and stops the build

  bugpkg: sphinx-needs
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2413 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 30, 2026

• ✨ Schema rules cannot follow inherits: a rule on req misses a safety_req, and rejects one that target_types accepts

  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2412 · Filter by author Rubyfi opened on Oct 30, 2026
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• 🐛 sphinx-test-reports: a tr_json_mapping key named like the source-location fields silently overrides a test case's location

  bugpkg: sphinx-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2411 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 30, 2026

• 📚 sphinx-test-reports: a tr_extra_options name that is a link type is a configuration error, not "that link type instead"

  documentationpkg: sphinx-test-reports
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2409 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 30, 2026

• ❓ needimport: an imported record's own parts are dropped unless its content gives them (ubCode keeps them); should the exchange contract say which is right?

  pkg: sphinx-needspkg: ub-needs-exchangequestion
  useblocks/sphinx-needs#2393 · Filter by author chrisjsewell opened on Oct 29, 2026