==============================Bugs fixed----------* 13013: Restore support for :func:`!cut_lines` with no object type.Patch by Adam Turner.

=====================================Bugs fixed----------* 13012: Expose :exc:`sphinx.errors.ExtensionError` in ``sphinx.util``for backwards compatibility.This will be removed in Sphinx 9, as exposing the exceptionin ``sphinx.util`` was never intentional.:exc:`!ExtensionError` has been part of ``sphinx.errors`` since Sphinx 0.9.Patch by Adam Turner.

=====================================Bugs fixed----------* 13006: Use the preferred https://www.cve.org/ URL forthe :rst:role:`:cve: <cve>` role.Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.* 13007: LaTeX: Improve resiliency when the required``fontawesome`` or ``fontawesome5`` packages are not installed.Patch by Jean-François B.

=====================================Dependencies------------* 12756: Add lower-bounds to the ``sphinxcontrib-*`` dependencies.Patch by Adam Turner.* 12833: Update the LaTeX ``parskip`` package from 2001 to 2018.Patch by Jean-François B.Incompatible changes--------------------* 12763: Remove unused internal class ``sphinx.util.Tee``.Patch by Adam Turner.* 12822: LaTeX: for Unicode engines, the :ref:`fvset` default is changed to``'\\fvset{fontsize=auto}'`` from ``'\\fvset{fontsize=\\small}'``.Code-blocks are unchanged as FreeMono is now loaded with ``Scale=0.9``.An adjustment to existing projects is needed only if they used a custom:ref:`fontpkg` configuration and did not set :ref:`fvset`.Patch by Jean-François B.* 12875: Disable smartquotes for languages: ``zh_CN`` and ``zh_TW`` by default.Patch by A. Rafey Khan.Deprecated----------* 12762: Deprecate ``sphinx.util.import_object``.Use :py:func:`importlib.import_module` instead.Patch by Adam Turner.* 12766: Deprecate ``sphinx.util.FilenameUniqDict``and ``sphinx.util.DownloadFiles``.Patch by Adam Turner.Features added--------------* 11328: Mention evaluation of templated content during production of staticoutput files.Patch by James Addison.* 12704: LaTeX: make :dudir:`contents <table-of-contents>`, :dudir:`topic`,and :dudir:`sidebar` directives separately customizable for PDF output.Patch by Jean-François B. and Bénédikt Tran.* 12474: Support type-dependent search result highlighting via CSS.Patch by Tim Hoffmann.* 12652: LaTeX: Add :confval:`math_numsep` support to latex builder.Patch by Thomas Fanning and Jean-François B.* 12743: No longer exit on the first warning when:option:`--fail-on-warning <sphinx-build --fail-on-warning>` is used.Instead, exit with a non-zero status if any warnings were generatedduring the build.Patch by Adam Turner.* 12743: Add :option:`sphinx-build --exception-on-warning`,to raise an exception when warnings are emitted during the build.Patch by Adam Turner and Jeremy Maitin-Shepard.* 12907: Add :confval:`html_last_updated_use_utc` to allow usinguniversal time (GMT/UTC) instead of local time for the date-timesupplied to :confval:`html_last_updated_fmt`.Patch by Adam Turner.* 12910: Copyright entries now support the ``'%Y'`` placeholderto substitute the current year.This is helpful for reducing the reliance on Python modulessuch as :py:mod:`time` or :py:mod:`datetime` in :file:`conf.py`.See :ref:`the docs <config-copyright>` for further detail.Patch by Adam Turner.* 11781: Add roles for referencing CVEs (:rst:role:`:cve: <cve>`)and CWEs (:rst:role:`:cwe: <cwe>`).Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.* 11809: Improve the formatting for RFC section anchors.Patch by Jakub Stasiak and Adam Turner.* 12852: Support a :attr:`.Builder.supported_linkcode` attributefor builders to enable use of :mod:`sphinx.ext.linkcode`-generatedreferences.Patch by James Knight.* 12949: Print configuration options that differ from the pickled environment.This can be helpful in diagnosing the cause of a full rebuild.Patch by Adam Turner.Bugs fixed----------* 12514: intersphinx: fix the meaning of a negative value for:confval:`intersphinx_cache_limit`.Patch by Shengyu Zhang.* 12722: LaTeX: avoid TeX reporting ``Overfull \hbox`` from too longstrings in a codeline when the problem has actually been solved thanksto :ref:`latexsphinxsetupforcewraps`.Patch by Jean-François B.* 12730: The ``UnreferencedFootnotesDetector`` transform has been improvedto more consistently detect unreferenced footnotes.Note, the priority of the transform has been changed from 200 to 622,so that it now runs after the docutils ``Footnotes`` resolution transform.Patch by Chris Sewell.* 12778: LaTeX: let :ref:`'sphinxsetup' <latexsphinxsetup>```div.topic_box-shadow`` key if used with only one dimension set bothx-offset and y-offset as per documentation.Patch by Jean-François B.* 12587: Do not warn when potential ambiguity detected during Intersphinxresolution occurs due to duplicate targets that differ case-insensitively.Patch by James Addison.* 12639: Fix singular and plural search results text.Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.* 12645: Correctly support custom gettext output templates.Patch by Jeremy Bowman.* 12717: LaTeX: let :option:`-q <sphinx-build -q>` (quiet) option for:program:`sphinx-build -M latexpdf` or :program:`make latexpdf` (``O=-q``)get passed to :program:`latexmk`.  Let :option:`-Q <sphinx-build -Q>`(silent) apply as well to the PDF build phase.Patch by Jean-François B.* 12744: LaTeX: Classes injected by a custom interpreted text role now giverise to nested ``\DUrole``'s, rather than a single one with comma separatedclasses.Patch by Jean-François B.* 12831: LaTeX: avoid large voids sometimes occurring at page bottoms.Patch by Jean-François B.* 11970, 12551: singlehtml builder: make target URIs to be same-documentreferences in the sense of :rfc:`RFC 3986, §4.4 <3986section-4.4>`,e.g., ``index.htmlfoo`` becomes ``foo``.(note: continuation of a partial fix added in Sphinx 7.3.0)Patch by James Addison (with reference to prior work by Eric Norige).* 12735: Fix :pep:`695` generic classes LaTeX output formatting.Patch by Jean-François B. and Bénédikt Tran.* 12782: intersphinx: fix double forward slashes when generating the inventoryfile URL (user-defined base URL of an intersphinx project are left untouchedeven if they end with double forward slashes).Patch by Bénédikt Tran.* 12796: Enable parallel reading if requested,even if there are fewer than 6 documents.Patch by Matthias Geier.* 12844: Restore support for ``:noindex:`` for the :rst:dir:`js:module`and :rst:dir:`py:module` directives.Patch by Stephen Finucane.* 12916: Restore support for custom templates named with the legacy ``_t``suffix during ``apidoc`` RST rendering (regression in 7.4.0).Patch by James Addison.* 12451: Only substitute copyright notice years with values from``SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH`` for entries that match the current system clock year,and disallow substitution of future years.Patch by James Addison and Adam Turner.* 12905: intersphinx: fix flipped use of :confval:`intersphinx_cache_limit`,which always kept the cache for positive values, and always refreshed it fornegative ones.Patch by Nico Madysa.* 12888: Add a warning when document is included in multiple toctreesand ensure deterministic resolution of global toctree in parallel buildsby choosing the lexicographically greatest parent document.Patch by A. Rafey Khan* 12995: Significantly improve performance when building the search indexfor Chinese languages.Patch by Adam Turner.* 12767: :py:meth:`.Builder.write` is typed as ``final``, meaning that the:event:`write-started` event may be relied upon by extensions.A new :py:meth:`.Builder.write_documents` method has been added tocontrol how documents are written.This is intended for builders that do not output a file for each document.Patch by Adam Turner.Testing-------* 12141: Migrate from the deprecated ``karma`` JavaScript test framework tothe actively-maintained ``jasmine`` framework.  Test coverage is unaffected.Patch by James Addison.