I hope it's visible: I limited the drop-down to 20 now.  I think it's way
better:

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J.


On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello here,
>
> We had this small issue in our docs that our version dropdown was barely
> usable - due to the size of it. .... And we still haven't found anyone to
> get a better version drop-down.
>
> But I realized (and I think Vikram had a similar comment once when we
> discussed it) that we can fix things much better and faster and simpler -
> by just limiting the drop-down versions to the latest minor versions. I
> don't think there is a value in showing all versions in the drop-down -
> latest minor versions should be "good enough" IMHO.
>
> The docs are still there for all versions - you can modify URL to go to
> any version, also docs from PyPI releases have the right version in the
> URL, so there should be no problem whatsoever with any references etc -
> it's **just** the drop-down that is shorter.
>
> We could also eventually only show the last "N" entries (say 10) - to make
> sure that it does not grow in the future beyond the screen size for
> standard screen sizes.
>
> Here is the PR that implements it:
> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/57243
>
> You can see how it works on staging:
>
> * Airflow:
> https://airflow.staged.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/3.2.0/index.html
> * Google Provider:
> https://airflow.staged.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow-providers-google/stable/index.html
>
> Is it a good idea?
>
> J.
>
>

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