CHANGELOG.md

Release 0.7.1

Notable Changes

Really fix building with --incompatible_disallow_empty_glob (#238).
Auxiliary rule targets created by stardoc() macro now include provided tags (#247)

Contributors

Alexandre Rostovtsev, Lukács Berki, yashathwani

Release 0.7.0

This release requires Bazel 7 or newer.

By default - when using Bzlmod for dependency management - Stardoc now uses @stardoc as its repo name.

For compatibility with the legacy WORKSPACE-based setup (which used @io_bazel_stardoc as the repo name) and ease of migration, you may load Stardoc via

bazel_dep(name = "stardoc", repo_name = "io_bazel_stardoc", ...)

in your MODULE.bazel file.

New Features

Add support for a table of contents template (#203). This is disabled by default, but Stardoc comes with an example template that you can use. To enable, set table_of_contents_template, for example:
```
stardoc(
    ...,
    table_of_contents_template = "@stardoc//stardoc:templates/markdown_tables/table_of_contents.vm",
)
```
Add support for a footer template (#206). This is disabled by default; to enable, set footer_template to a .vm file, which you will need to provide.
Add support for providing stamping to Stardoc templates (#205). To use, use $util.formatBuildTimestamp and $stamping in a template file (footer_template - see above - is recommended for this); for example:
```
Built on `$util.formatBuildTimestamp($stamping.volatile.BUILD_TIMESTAMP, "UTC", "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")`
```
Render documentation for provider init callbacks (#224)
Properly render *args, *, and **kwargs in summaries (#231). This requires Bazel 8 (prerelease 20240603 or newer).
Include load statement in summaries (#216)

Incompatible Changes

The legacy extractor has been removed (#212). Stardoc always uses the starlark_doc_extract-based extractor. The stardoc, semantic_flags, and use_starlark_doc_extract arguments to stardoc() macro have been removed.
Stardoc uses Bzlmod by default for dependency management (#213). This means that by default, Stardoc now uses @stardoc as its repo name.

Contributors

Alex Humesky, Alexandre Rostovtsev, Fabian Meumertzheim, Grzegorz Lukasik, Xùdōng Yáng, Yun Peng

Release 0.6.2

Bugfix release: bumps rules_jvm_external dependency to support building with --incompatible_disable_starlark_host_transitions

Contributors

Alexandre Rostovtsev

Release 0.6.1

Bugfix release: fix rules_jvm_external pin warnings.

This release temporarily restores compatibility with Bazel 5 (manually tested). Note that normally we only test Stardoc with the current stable Bazel and with Bazel at HEAD - not with older releases. We make no promises about maintaining compatibility with Bazel 5.

Contributors

Alexandre Rostovtsev

Release 0.6.0

New Features

Stardoc no longer escapes HTML tags in documentation. Feel free to use HTML formatting in your docs! We now also have much-improved rendering for fenced code blocks in attribute docs, and render attribute default values using Markdown instead of HTML markup. (#161, #167)

Stardoc now dedents and trims all doc strings - not only in macros (#170). This means you can have

my_rule = rule(
    doc = """
    This is my rule.

    Here is more info about it.

    ...
    """,
    ...
)

and Stardoc will dedent and trim the doc to

This is my rule.

Here is more info about it.

...

When using Bazel 7 or newer (or current Bazel HEAD), Stardoc will by default use the native starlark_doc_extract rule internally (#166).
This means, in particular:
- correct default values for rule attributes in all cases
- documentation for module extensions
- more complete documentation for repository rules
- by default (this can be turned off via render_main_repo_name = False), we will render labels in your main repo with a repo component: your main module name (when using bzlmod) or WORKSPACE name (#168).
You may temporarily disable the new extractor by calling Stardoc with use_starlark_doc_extract = False. However, after Bazel 7 is released, we plan to remove this argument and always use the new extractor.

Incompatible Changes

The Markdown renderer now uses Google EscapeVelocity instead of Apache Velocity for templating. The templating engines are almost compatible, with the exception of escapes in string literals: if in your template you had a string literal with a character escape, you would need to expand it.
For example, instead of
```
${funcInfo.docString.replaceAll("\n", " ")}
```
you would need
```
${funcInfo.docString.replaceAll("
", " ")}
```
When using the native starlark_doc_extract extractor, Stardoc requires two additional templates: repository_rule_template and module_extension_template. If you are using custom templates, you will probably want to define these, following the examples in stardoc/templates/markdown_tables.
When using the native starlark_doc_extract extractor, Stardoc cannot document generated .bzl files any more - because Bazel cannot load() generated .bzl files.

Other Notable Changes

The Markdown renderer's source now lives in the Stardoc repo; we build the renderer from source instead of using a bundled jar. Unfortunately, if you are not using bzlmod, this requires a rather complicated WORKSPACE setup; see https://github.com/bazelbuild/stardoc/releases/tag/0.6.0

Contributors

Alexandre Rostovtsev, Fabian Meumertzheim

Release 0.5.6 (initially tagged as 0.5.5)

Bugfix release: update @rules_java dependency to fix breakage with Bazel at HEAD.

Contributors

Alexandre Rostovtsev

Release 0.5.4

New Features

Stardoc supports bzlmod! (#141, special thanks to Fabian Meumertzheim)
Stardoc output files are now exposed in stardoc() target runfiles (#139)

Contributors

Alexandre Rostovtsev, Fabian Meumertzheim, Greg Estren, Ivo List, Keith Smiley, lberki, Philipp Schrader

Release 0.5.3

Bugfix release: fixes angle bracket escaping and a crash on labels with @@

Contributors

Alexandre Rostovtsev, Jon Shea

Release 0.5.2

Bugfix release: fixes crash with config_common.toolchain_type.

Contributors

Alexandre Rostovtsev, Keith Smiley

Release 0.5.1

Bugfix release: minor fixes, including a fix for build failure due to missing zlib version.

Contributors

aiuto, Alexandre Rostovtsev, Brian Silverman, Casey, Xùdōng Yáng

Release 0.5.0

This release includes many fixes for Stardoc's markdown output, plus:

New Features

Raw protobuf output via format = "proto" (#20)
Stardoc now outputs documentation for macro returns and deprecations (#75) as well as module (file) docstrings (#100)

Contributors

Alexandre Rostovtsev, Alex Eagle, Andrew Z Allen, Chris Rebert, c-parsons, Ivo List, Jon Brandvein, Laurent Le Brun, Max Vorobev, pbatg, Philipp Wollermann, Samuel Giddins, Thomas Van Lenten, Tiago Quelhas, Xùdōng Yáng, Yiting Wang

Release 0.4.0

First release of Stardoc under the new repository location bazelbuild/stardoc. Please use this repository for future Stardoc releases instead of its old location. See Getting Started for updated setup information.

There are many new features since the last release. A summary of major features:

Changed the default Stardoc output format to use pure-markdown tables instead of HTML tables. This output format is fully compatible with markdown formatting constructs. For example, use **bold** instead of <b>bold</b>. The <. and > characters are escaped in this output format.
Stardoc now supports custom formatting. See Custom Output documentation for details.
aspect() definitions are now documented by Stardoc.
Module definitions (structs which combine series of functions in a ‘namespace’) are now documetned by Stardoc.
Attribute default-value information is now included in output.

Huge Thanks to kendalllaneee and blossommojekwu for their work on many of the features in this release.