# Suggestion: version-specific documentation

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/suggestion-version-specific-documentation/23928>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 9, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/suggestion-version-specific-documentation/23928 "2017-03-09T20:35:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guy\_Knights](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Guy\_Knights](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Guy_Knights)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/suggestion-version-specific-documentation/23928/1 "2017-03-09T20:35:32Z")

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One thing I find a little frustrating about the online documentation for Ansible is that there’s no way to look at the docs for a specific version. I realise that a lot of people just use the devel branch but there are those of us that stick to a specific version.

When I’m looking at the docs for a particular module it’s easy to overlook the notes specifying which version of Ansible that module or module parameter was added as they’re spread throughout the module documentation page.

I think it would be better to have separate docs per major version, like the Apache docs for example ([https://httpd.apache.org/docs/](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/)). There could also be a “latest” version for the devel branch.

I did a bit of a search through the mailing list and found this thread from 2013 discussing the same thing but it doesn’t look like it came to fruition:

[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/ansible-project/version$20documentation%7Csort:relevance/ansible-project/2Xi6xkyPEsY/ye418hhlYwwJ](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/ansible-project/version$20documentation%7Csort:relevance/ansible-project/2Xi6xkyPEsY/ye418hhlYwwJ)

Regards,  
Guy

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/suggestion-version-specific-documentation/23928/2 "2017-03-09T20:49:29Z")

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One thing that guarantees that the docs are specific to your version  
`ansible-doc` it shows the same module docs (same info is used to  
render html) but uses your 'current' modules.