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v1.56.5CI/CD & App DeliveryNov 12, 2026
A maintenance release with a correctness fix and behavior changes in GitLab and TechDocs. The newly enforced TechDocs extension allowlist may require configuration updates.
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breakingThe
markdown_extensionsallowlistApplies if you configure
markdown_extensions.The
markdown_extensionssetting inmkdocs.is restricted to known extension names before documentation generation in both the MkDocs and Zensical engines. Names outside the permitted set are removed with a warning.yml
All 3 other recorded changesadditions 1 · fixes 1 · value changes 1
additions (1)
- - Restricts
markdown_extensionsinmkdocs.to known extension names before documentation generation, in both the MkDocs and Zensical engines. Extension names outside the permitted set are removed from the configuration with a warning. Allow additional extensions, for example from a custom build image, with the newyml techdocs.configuration, or thegenerator. mkdocs. dangerouslyAllowAdditionalExtensions --dangerouslyAllowAdditionalExtensionsflag when using the TechDocs CLI.
fixes (1)
- - Fixed matching of action input values in scaffolder permission policies, including identifiers that are provided either as numbers or as strings.
value changes (1)
- - GitLab discovery entity provider: catalog locations and refresh keys resulting from push events are now derived from the project record fetched from the GitLab API, instead of fields of the event payload. Committed file paths that do not resolve within the project itself are ignored.
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