# beanbag-docutils 2.2

Release date: June 19, 2023

## Packaging / Compatibility

- Added support for Python 3.12.

- Added support for Sphinx 6 and 7.

## New Extensions

- Added a new `metadata` Sphinx extension for extracting additional page metadata.

  This extension extracts any `meta` information (useful for content like page descriptions for social media) and extracts their information into the document’s top-level metadata.

  This metadata can then be used when building sites or tools that process the page’s compiled documentation (when not simply relying on the generated HTML).

  The metadata will be available in the document’s `meta` information, keyed off by the name used in the `meta` directive, the content, and any other attributes provided.

  If multiple pieces of metadata exist for the same key, the information will be assembled into a list under that key. Otherwise, the information will be assigned directly to the key.

- Added a new `json_writer` Sphinx extension for enhanced JSON writing.

  This augments the JSON writer typically found in the sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml package to include two new pieces of information:

  1. A structured representation of the Table of Contents for the whole doc bundle.

  2. Rendered HTML for the anchors in the page (similar to the “toc” available in the page, but without the page’s own header).

  These can be used by consumers to pull out this structured information without having to parse the docsets themselves, helping provide a dynamic Table of Contents.

## Contributors

- Christian Hammond

- David Trowbridge

- Michelle Aubin