Adaptive systems for evolving ideas – Zensical creates scalable Open Source systems for technical writing that always keep you in the flow
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🎙️ We were on @talkpython!
Episode #542 is live – Martin Donath (@squidfunk) joined @mkennedy to talk about the origin story of Zensical, how it differs from MkDocs, and what drove us to build it.
If you're curious about the "why", this is a good listen:
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Zensical 0.0.44 brings further improvements to link validation. You might have noticed we've been quieter than usual – we've been heads down on a major milestone for Zensical. We'll share everything in Zensical Monthly, our newsletter, on June 10!
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May 21
Now that I'm editing docs and seeing the change in the browser live, instantly... migrating to @zensical is so worth it ✨
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Zensical 0.0.42 improves stability and accuracy of link validation, and fixes some bugs related to file watching, abbreviations in the table of contents, and GLightbox.
Release notes:
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Zensical retweeted
May 6
Zensical Monthly 04/2026
AI agents don't stop when your docs have a gap. They guess – confidently, fluently, and wrongly. This month's Zensical Monthly is about what that means for technical writers, and what we're building about it.
Web version:
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Zensical 0.0.40 is out with macro support. You can now use macros inside Markdown files and even docstrings – a much-requested feature that was never possible with mkdocs-macros.
Release notes:
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Zensical 0.0.39 is out – a bugfix release smoothing out edges on link validation and the new lightbox integration.
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Zensical 0.0.38 is out! 🎉 Link and footnote validation strict mode are here – now catches broken links, unresolved references, and shadowed definitions at build time.
You'll probably catch and fix a few issues when upgrading. We did too! 🫣
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Zensical 0.0.37 adds support for installable themes – you can now package your existing customizations into a theme that can be installed via pip exactly as with MkDocs.
Read the release notes:
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Zensical 0.0.35 just arrived. What we shipped:
- 🌄 Image zoom galleries with GLightbox
– 🏗️ Rich formatting in the table of contents
– 🔗 Resolution of relative links in raw HTML
Release notes:
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Zensical retweeted
Apr 16
Open Source software wins in the age of AI – not despite it, but because of it. Extensibility, transparency, and community ownership matter more than ever. It's at the core of everything we're building with @Zensical.
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All issues of Zensical Monthly are now public. Catch up on anything you missed, or share an issue with your team:
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Apr 7
ZRX 0.0.17 is out – the foundation of Zensical.
This one's a big deal – the module system is here, and with it a ground-up rewrite of the scheduler and stream crates. Three months of work. Phase 2 done. Phase 3 starts now.
Release notes:
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Zensical 0.0.30 adds a new floating table of contents menu on mobile/tablet, and ships support for our fork of "mike" – a tool that enables you to deploy multiple versions of your documentation to GH Pages.
Checkout the 0.0.30 release notes:
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Zensical retweeted
Mar 23
Just finished the impl of a central module system concept: Specificity. If multiple selectors match a resource, ordering becomes important. This allows for super fine-grained module interdependencies 😎
Released as part of ZRX 0.0.15
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Zensical retweeted
Mar 12
In the light of the latest MkDocs developments, we've updated our plugin section to outline how we plan to reach feature parity as quickly as possible, and how MkDocs plugins relate to @Zensical modules.
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Zensical retweeted
Mar 10
We've just released Zensical 0.0.25, which includes several improvements for authoring and user experience, as well as accessibility.
We're also making good progress on the module system, so shouldn't be long ☺️
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We just delivered Zensical Monthly, January 2026 edition straight to your inbox with the latest and greatest updates to keep you informed on what's happening behind the scenes ☺️
We send 1 newsletter at the beginning of every month:
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