Versioned documentation

Every Besu documentation version is tagged in the repository, but the published documentation site only contains the in-flight latest version – that is, new documentation is published as features are released.

Document version-specific information

We recommend most users upgrade to the latest version of Besu (especially on Mainnet), but for some enterprise use cases, it might be helpful to include version-specific information in the documentation. For example, if a new JSON-RPC method qbft_getPendingVotes  is released with version 24.9.0 , add something like the following to the method description. This informs enterprise users whether their version of Besu supports the new method.

View older documentation versions

To build or host a specific older version of the documentation (for example, 23.7.1 ):

1. Clone the besu-docs repository and checkout the tag for your intended version:
   • git clone git@github.com:hyperledger/besu-docs.git
   • cd besu-docs
   • git checkout 23.7.1
2. Build and run locally:
   • yarn
   • yarn run start
3. Open a browser tab and navigate to http://localhost:3000/development
4. (Optional) Host this version on your own infrastructure (for example, nginx or s3):
   • yarn
   • yarn run build
   • yarn run serve (optional – this is to check the output locally) 

          Host the contents of the build folder on your own infrastructure.