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+.. post:: Feb 2, 2022
+   :tags: newsletter, python
+   :author: Eric Holscher
+   :location: BND
+
+.. meta::
+   :description lang=en:
+      Company updates and new features from last month,
+      current focus, and upcoming features in February.
+
+Read the Docs newsletter - February 2022
+========================================
+
+Welcome to the latest edition of our monthly newsletter, where we
+share the most relevant updates around Read the Docs,
+offer a summary of new features we shipped
+during the previous month,
+and share what we'll be focusing on in the near future.
+
+Company updates
+---------------
+
+- We have mostly finished migrating Read the Docs for Business users to Cloudflare for SSL.
+  There are lots of interesting features this will enable,
+  so stay tuned for updates there.
+- We're sad to announce that Juan Luis has moved on from Read the Docs as our developer advocate.
+  The work he did was vital towards getting our :doc:`CZI grant </czi-grant-announcement>` mostly finished, and we thank him for his time spent bettering the RTD, Sphinx, and docs community.
+- On a related note, we're going to be hiring again soon to fill another position.
+  It will be a bit different and likely a product-focused Python development position.
+  If you're interested, please `let us know`_.
+
+.. _let us know: mailto:ads@readthedocs.org?subject=Job%20Posting
+
+New features
+------------
+
+In January we continued to work on refactors and internal changed.
+Among the major user-facing changes:
+
+- We fixed a bug in BitBucket that didn't allow us to properly sync user permissions.
+  This resulted in a few support requests, but has now been resolved.
+- We improved our ability to mark projects at non-spam,
+  so that we can validate a project isn't spam and then make sure it doesn't get flagged by our automated system.
+
+You can always see the latest changes to our platforms in our :doc:`Read the Docs
+Changelog <readthedocs:changelog>`.
+
+Upcoming features
+-----------------
+
+- We're looking at tracking 404 pages in our project analytics,
+  so that projects can easily fix up missing or outdated page links.
+- We are hoping to launch our revamped landing pages this month,
+  which will give our front page a much needed refresh.
+- We are working to define a policy for canonical docs and cloned versions,
+  so that we can more easily remove outdated docs for projects.
+- We're working to investigate supporting a CDN on Read the Docs for Business,
+  which will be an exciting new feature for our users there.
+- We're `looking at how to support <https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/issues/8811>`_ multiple ``readthedocs.yml`` files in a single git repo.
+
+Possible issues
+---------------
+
+We continue to see a good place of development on the Sphinx project,
+with them adding support for docutils 0.18,
+and removing jQuery in a major refactor of their Javascript.
+We're working to ensure that our theme and other parts of the ecosystem don't break with these changes,
+and trying to be procative to address any possible issues.
+That said,
+there will likely still be some issues that sneak through with the release of Sphinx 4.5 (docutils upgrade) and Sphinx 5.0 (JS refactor).
+
+----
+
+Considering using Read the Docs for your next Sphinx or MkDocs project?
+Check out `our documentation <https://docs.readthedocs.io/>`_ to get started!
+
+.. _Ana: https://github.com/nienn
+.. _Anthony: https://github.com/agjohnson
+.. _Eric: https://github.com/ericholscher
+.. _Juan Luis: https://github.com/astrojuanlu
+.. _Manuel: https://github.com/humitos
+.. _Santos: https://github.com/stsewd