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[1.5.X] Fixed #19180 - Clarified policy regarding older versions of the docs. 

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@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ If you'd like to start contributing to our docs, get the development version of
Django from the source code repository
(see :ref:`installing-development-version`). The development version has the
latest-and-greatest documentation, just as it has latest-and-greatest code.
Generally, we only revise documentation in the development version, as our
policy is to freeze documentation for existing releases (see
We also backport documentation fixes and improvements, at the discretion of the
committer, to the last release branch. That's because it's highly advantageous
to have the docs for the last release be up-to-date and correct (see
:ref:`differences-between-doc-versions`).
Getting started with Sphinx

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@ -216,15 +216,13 @@ We follow this policy:
"New in version X.Y", being X.Y the next release version (hence, the one
being developed).
* Documentation for a particular Django release is frozen once the version
has been released officially. It remains a snapshot of the docs as of the
moment of the release. We will make exceptions to this rule in
the case of retroactive security updates or other such retroactive
changes. Once documentation is frozen, we add a note to the top of each
frozen document that says "These docs are frozen for Django version XXX"
and links to the current version of that document.
* Documentation fixes and improvements may be backported to the last release
branch, at the discretion of the committer, however, once a version of
Django is :ref:`no longer supported<backwards-compatibility-policy>`, that
version of the docs won't get any further updates.
* The `main documentation Web page`_ includes links to documentation for
all previous versions.
all previous versions. Be sure you are using the version of the docs
corresponding to the version of Django you are using!
.. _main documentation Web page: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/