Can't reach it with inline comments, but there are also links like here (linking to 3.4 whatsnew changelog) that I'm not too sure if it can be converted into a label. With a changelog label, such as in the 3.7 whatsnew, if not on the right version on the webpage (.org/3/ instead of .org/3.7), the changelog link goes to the most current one (3.10 ish), while in the hardlinked whatsnew, such as the 3.6 whatsnew, changelog goes to the right page.

With a changelog label, such as in the 3.7 whatsnew, if not on the right version on the webpage (.org/3/ instead of .org/3.7), the changelog link goes to the most current one (3.10 ish), while in the hardlinked whatsnew, such as the 3.6 whatsnew, changelog goes to the right page.

Instead of linking to a whole different docs build, what should instead be done is to tweak blurb here to add standard ref target labels for each section (and subsection) when generating the news file based on the version tag, e.g. 3.11.0-alpha-1 or 3.11.0 for the final. Then, the appropriate sections for each version, etc., can be linked. However, that would be best addressed in a separate PR after the change to blurb is made and deployed, assuming it is accepted.

There are a few remaining relevant instances that can be fixed in this PR:

Doc/using/venv-create.inc:20:   <https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.6.html#id8>`_.
Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:27:Reference <https://docs.python.org/2.2/lib/lib.html>`_ and the `Python
Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:28:Reference Manual <https://docs.python.org/2.2/ref/ref.html>`_.  If you want to
Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:398:https://docs.python.org/dev/howto/descriptor.html is a lengthy tutorial introduction to
Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a3.rst:809:<https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html#types-and-members>`_

At some point, if we add pre-commit checks to this repo, we could add a check for these links, like I added for hardcoded links to PEPs and RFCs on the PEPs repo (which there also are a handful of here, BTW, and could be fixed in a separate PR).

I left out

Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:27:Reference <https://docs.python.org/2.2/lib/lib.html>`_ and the `Python
Doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst:28:Reference Manual <https://docs.python.org/2.2/ref/ref.html>`_.  If you want to

for now as the pages are far too different to the corresponding modern links, and uncertain if those should be changed over or if they should just remain for historical purposes (as those pages seem to remain for historical purposes too).

Yes, let's leave the old what's news unchanged as much as possible.

I left out for now as the pages are far too different to the corresponding modern links, and uncertain if those should be changed over or if they should just remain for historical purposes (as those pages seem to remain for historical purposes too).

Yeah, not much point changing those

Thanks @slateny for the PR, and @JelleZijlstra for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.10, 3.11.
🐍🍒⛏🤖

Sorry, @slateny and @JelleZijlstra, I could not cleanly backport this to 3.11 due to a conflict.
Please backport using cherry_picker on command line.
cherry_picker 268129a74f01adb7bb14cd71d1f38378e39d304d 3.11

Sorry @slateny and @JelleZijlstra, I had trouble checking out the 3.10 backport branch.
Please retry by removing and re-adding the "needs backport to 3.10" label.
Alternatively, you can backport using cherry_picker on the command line.
cherry_picker 268129a74f01adb7bb14cd71d1f38378e39d304d 3.10

@slateny would you be able to do the backports?

Yep sure

GH-98725 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.11 branch.

GH-98726 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.10 branch.