How does Material for MkDocs fetch the latest git tag (to display it in the navbar)?

[pawamoy]

We're having an issue with a site published at readthedocs.org: https://copier.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.
The git tag in the navbar shows 5.1.0, while the latest tag is 6.0.0a9.
I was wondering how the tag is obtained (upon building? with javascript?), and why it the latest tag is not used.
The documentation doesn't mention anything about this.
Any hints/ideas 😊 ?

[squidfunk]

mkdocs-material/src/assets/javascripts/components/source/facts/github/index.ts

Lines 65 to 72 in cbbef98

	/* Fetch version */
	requestJSON<Release>(`${url}/releases/latest`)
	.pipe(
	map(release => ({
	version: release.tag_name
	})),
	defaultIfEmpty({})
	),

Note that we can only fetch the latest release, not tag. GitHub doesn't expose an API for obtaining the latest tag.

[pawamoy]

That makes total sense, thanks!

[yajo]

Is there a way to generate the version locally instead of pulling from github?

Because I have several doc versions...

[squidfunk]

No, this is currently not supported.