sphinxnotes-recentupdate¶

Introduction¶

Get the Sphinx document update information from Git repository.

This extension provides a recentupdate directive that displays recent document update information read from a Git repository. It also integrates with sphinxnotes-render by providing an extra context for use in render templates.

Getting Started¶

Note

We assume you already have a Sphinx documentation project, if not, see Getting Started with Sphinx.

First, download the extension from PyPI:

$ pip install sphinxnotes-recentupdate

Then, add the extension name to extensions configuration option in your conf.py:

extensions = [
           # …
           'sphinxnotes.recentupdate',
           # …
           ]

Now you can use the recentupdate directive to displays the recent updates of the our documentation.

Source

.. recentupdate:: 3

Result

👤 Shengyu Zhang @ 📅 2026-06-22

chore: Bump version to 2.1

Modified Change Log

👤 Shengyu Zhang @ 📅 2026-06-22

feat: Resolve paths relative to srcdir or current document

Modified sphinxnotes-recentupdate, Usage

👤 Shengyu Zhang @ 📅 2026-06-22

docs: Fix stray backtick in changelog

Modified Change Log

Please refer to Usage for more details.

Contents¶

The Sphinx Notes Project¶

The project is developed by Shengyu Zhang, as part of The Sphinx Notes Project.

The Sphinx Notes Project