devpi-web 5.0.2

devpi-web: a web view for devpi-server

devpi-web: web interface plugin for devpi-server

This plugin adds a web interface with search for devpi-server.

See https://doc.devpi.net for quickstart and more documentation.

Installation

devpi-web needs to be installed alongside devpi-server.

You can install it with:

pip install devpi-web

There is no configuration needed as devpi-server will automatically discover the plugin through calling hooks using the setuptools entry points mechanism.

Support

If you find a bug, use the issue tracker at Github.

For general questions use GitHub Discussions or the [e-mail] mailing list.

For support contracts and paid help contact mail at pyfidelity.com.

Changelog

5.0.2 (2026-03-17)

Bug Fixes

• Prevent double indexing work on first start of freshly initialized/imported instance.

• Optimize preparation of mirror project data for indexing.

• Consistently use offline mode when indexing. This especially helps performance on startup.

• Skip redirect if an installer is detected which is configured without +simple in the URL.

Other Changes

• Support string timestamps for file history log entries from devpi-server 7.0.0.

5.0.1 (2025-06-15)

Bug Fixes

• Fix traceback during unpacking of documentation in some cases.

5.0.0 (2025-06-12)

Deprecations and Removals

• Removed macros.pt, the contained macros have all been moved to separate templates. See other news entries for details.

• Remove support for Python below 3.9. In the future end of life Python 3 versions aren’t supported anymore.

• Future releases will more often require newer devpi-server than before.

Bug Fixes

• Fix #930: remove remaining uses of unmaintained py library.

Other Changes

• style.css: Added styling for readme/description code block / literals.

• macros.pt (navigation macro): Move breadcrumbs out of navigation macro to separate header_breadcrumbs.pt template.

• macros.pt (head macro): Move favicon out of head macro to separate favicon.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move footer macro to separate footer.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move head macro to separate head.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move headcss macro to separate html_head_css.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move headscript macro to separate html_head_scripts.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move logo macro to separate logo.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move navigation macro to separate header.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move query_doc macro to separate query_doc.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move rootaboveuserindexlist macro to separate root_above_user_index_list.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move rootbelowuserindexlist macro to separate root_below_user_index_list.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move search macro to separate header_search.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move status macro to separate header_status.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move statusbadge macro to separate status_badge.pt template.

• macros.pt: Move versions macro to separate footer_versions.pt template.

4.3.0 (2024-10-16)

Features

• index.pt, project.pt, version.pt: Fix #1062: Added a link to download the documentation as zip-file to the index, project and version view.

4.2.3 (2024-09-19)

Bug Fixes

• Fix deprecation warnings from devpi-server 6.13.0.

• Lazily evaluate file information. Especially with devpi-postgresql this safes many database accesses on most pages.

• Guard against missing doczip files, which can happen on replicas during replication.

• Increase threshold for index status from 60 s to 300 s for warnings and from 300 s to 3600 s for fatal.