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+title: Empower your documentation with addons
+date: 2024-03-27
+category: Changelog
+tags: addons, hosting
+authors: Manuel Kaufmann
+status: published
+image: /images/enable-beta-addons.jpg
+image_credit: Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@impatrickt?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Patrick Tomasso</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/open-book-lot-Oaqk7qqNh_c?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Unsplash</a>
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+
+In the last year, we have been focusing ourselves on providing a better experience to readers of the documentation.
+Today, we are thrilled to introduce our latest feature,
+designed on top of feedback from readers to build a better experience for them in our platform: Read the Docs Addons.
+
+
+## Full list of addons
+
+<!--
+TODO describe each of the addons into its own section,
+similar to what we have in https://github.com/readthedocs/addons/blob/main/README.md
+
+Consider also https://about.readthedocs.com/docs-as-code/
+-->
+
+### Analytics
+### DocDiff
+### Pull request notification
+### Flyout
+### Non-stable notification
+### Latest version notification
+### Search as you type
+### Sponsorship
+
+## How to enable addons in your project
+
+To enable Read the Docs Addons in your project follow these steps:
+
+1. Go to the [new beta dashboard](https://beta.readthedocs.org).
+1. Click on the project you want to enable addons.
+1. Go to **Settings**, then **Addons (Beta)** from the left bar.
+1. Check **Enable Addons**.
+
+Now you have Read the Docs Addons enabled,
+readers of your project's documentation can start using these features.
+
+## Moving forward
+
+We have implemented Read the Docs Addons in a modular way that allows us to expand them in the future.
+There are plans to keep adding more addons to this list and also re-implement some of the Sphinx extension we've created in the past
+(e.g. [`sphinx-hoverxref`](https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx-hoverxref)) as an addon,
+making it compatible with non-Sphinx projects.
+We are also open to suggestions for new addons!
+
+## Conclusion
+
+Read the Docs provides a lot of feature for documentation authors to simplify their workflow to keep the documentation updated,
+providing pull request previews, automatition rules, versioning, translation, and many other features.
+
+The introduction of Read the Docs Addons, empowers the readers experience as well, closing the circle between authors and readers.
+Addons gives readers a quick way to find what they are looking for,
+notifies them about reading the _latest_ version which may have features that are not yet implemented or,
+an old version that may be deprecated,
+gives them a way to quickly switch between versions and translations of the same page,
+and much more in near future!
+
+## Contact
+
+[Contact us](https://readthedocs.org/support/) if you have any questions about the new beta Read the Docs Addons,
+or [open an issue](https://github.com/readthedocs/addons) to share any feedback you may have.