Feb 2025 newsletter

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+title: Read the Docs Newsletter - February 2025
+date: February 11, 2025
+description: Company updates and new features from the last month, current focus, and upcoming features.
+category: Newsletter
+tags: newsletter, community
+authors: Eric Holscher
+status: published
+image: /images/feb-2025.jpg
+image_credit: Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@sunshinevillage?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Banff Sunshine Village</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/2-person-in-yellow-jacket-and-blue-helmet-riding-ski-blades-on-snow-covered-mountain-during-UoBE_wJ-suk?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Unsplash</a>
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+Just a quick note at the top, we have [scheduled database maintenance on February 14, 2025](https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/02/postgres-maint-feb-14/). There may be brief periods of downtime during this maintenance window, but read the post for full details.
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+## News and updates
+
+* We migrated our official documentation to `docs.readthedocs.com`, with the primary user documentation at <https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/>.
+* We are working to improve the process of changing the slug of a Version. This will make it easier to change the URL of a version without creating a new version. This is currently being tested in production and will be available soon.
+* We [added support for changing the flyout position in Addons](https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/flyout-menu.html#position), which allows you to control where the flyout appears on your documentation site.
+* Our [Visual diff](https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/visual-diff.html) feature is getting closer to being widely released. This includes a user-facing UX for seeing what files changed in a PR build, and a way to see the visual diff.
+* We [documented Addons customization patterns](https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/addons.html#addons-data-and-customization) to help you understand how to customize Addons for your project.
+
+## Upcoming changes
+
+* We are working to implement a GitHub Application, which will allow us to provide better integration with GitHub. This enables granular permissions, organization webhooks, and other long-standing feature requests.
+* We continue focus on polishing the UX around Addons, trying to make it easier to use and understand how to customize them.
+
+
+## Possible issues
+
+* We continue to fight battles with spammers, and now we are getting some phishing attempts happening on the platform. As a result, we have had to increase the strictness of our spam checking. If you see any issues with new projects getting marked as spam, [please let us know](https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/support.html).
+* Our old dashboard will be [removed on March 11](https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/11/rollout-of-our-new-dashboard/). If you haven't already, please switch to the new dashboard.
+* [Deprecation of projects using Sphinx or MkDocs without an explicit configuration file](https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/12/deprecate-config-files-without-sphinx-or-mkdocs-config/). This was fully removed on **January 20, 2025**.
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+Questions? Comments? Ideas for the next newsletter? [Contact us](mailto:[email protected])!