Since our move to SemVer in 2.4.x the scripts that automatically update the symlinks on docs.spring.io are broken.
At the moment current-SNAPSHOT links to2.3.3.BUILD-SNAPSHOT. It should point to 2.4.0-SNAPSHOT.
Comment From: trevormarshall
The auto-linking script and associated regex can be found in the genlinks.inc.php file which is held in the private spring-docs-www-conf repository. The issue is that it is unmaintained and does not support the updated versioning scheme.
The script runs on a schedule and looks for a .autoln file in project's autorepo directory on the docs server. To suspend auto-symlinking that file can be removed.
From my perspective, some options to fix this could be:
1) modify the existing script to support SemVer as well
2) leave existing script as is (it does seem to work..), and add a 2nd job that looks for e.g. .newautoln files indicating projects that have changed schemes
3) rewrite from scratch to support old and new schemes
We could also consider some other form of post-build trigger instead of a cron, but keep in mind our many disparate CI systems.
This is beginning to affect more projects.
Comment From: rwinch
FYI...I'm going to put together a Java library to do this
Comment From: rwinch
You can find the project at https://github.com/spring-io/autoln
Comment From: wilkinsona
With thanks to @rwinch and @trevormarshall, this is now working correctly. At the time of writing current-SNAPSHOT points to 2.4.1-SNAPSHOT.