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The nightly rows of both install selectors labeled chips with the Dynamo dev-wheel version and stamped every nightly with MAIN_TOT, so they claimed builds shipped backend versions those builds never carried. The underlying data was a hand-maintained literal that hadn't been refreshed since Aug 4. Nightly chips are now the last three versions of each backend, each resolving to the newest nightly that shipped it, generated at docs-publish time instead of transcribed.

  • Chips show backend versions, not Dynamo dev-wheel versions. The nightly channel was the only one that swapped the label; stable already showed backend versions. The Dynamo version moves to the result card and the install command.
  • gen_nightly_selector.py replaces the hand-maintained data. Reads the dated YYYYMMDD- tags on the *-runtime-nightly NGC repos, then container/context.yaml and pyproject.toml at that exact commit. The tag names its own commit, so backend versions are read rather than inferred from build times.
  • Wheel pins for pinned/historical rows are confirmed against the pypi.nvidia.com index, so a skipped or garbage-collected night drops its wheel command instead of offering a dead install line. The latest row's wheel is picked independently of the container tag — the newest wheel PyPI has actually published — instead of requiring both to come from the same commit, since the wheel and container nightly CI jobs don't always land on the same day.
  • The generated module is gitignored and rebuilt in CI, restoring the shape build_install_selector.py had before docs: restructure docs site into tab-based navigation #10855 dropped it. That PR left the two .gitignore entries pointing at the pre-restructure fern/components/ path, which is how the generated file silently became a tracked one and grew hand-maintenance around it. Both entries are fixed.
  • No cron. Pushes to main already republish whenever the docs filter matches — 43 of the last 46 days with commits, longest gap 3 days — and a backend bump touches MAIN_TOT under docs/, so the chip set can't drift between publishes.
  • Every backend version now gets an immutable container tag, so TensorRT-LLM is no longer limited to one chip. The Kubernetes quickstart keeps only the rolling entry, since its emitted variables don't pin worker images. If no entry matches a channel at all, the Kubernetes selector now shows an explicit "not currently available" state instead of silently falling back to the current stable tag.
  • Kubernetes nightly path pointed at an image that doesn't exist: dynamo-planner:nightly. Nightly component images are separate repos, so it's now dynamo-planner-nightly:latest.
  • Nightly entries with no published wheel (container-only nights) no longer render "Nightly undefined" — they fall back to the backend version and a "pinned nightly container build" label.
  • gen_nightly_selector.py: urlopen() responses are closed via context managers, and NGC/PyPI exception handling now only swallows transport failures — malformed responses fail the generation run instead of silently dropping a backend.
  • Two docs corrections found while verifying: the immutable :YYYYMMDD- tags do exist (46 per image; the page said they weren't visible), and nightly does publish dynamo-frontend, dynamo-planner, kubernetes-operator, and snapshot-agent (the page listed all four as not published).
  • Minor: SPDX year range and prerelease spelling fixes; refreshed the hand-maintained NIGHTLY_BUILDS ledger to current versions.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Install selectors now show backend-specific nightly builds with accurate versions, dates, latest-build indicators, and immutable container tags.
    • Nightly Kubernetes commands use dedicated nightly repositories and retain only the latest nightly versions.
    • Nightly wheel options are displayed only when available.
  • Documentation

    • Updated nightly release, artifact, and machine-readable release documentation with current builds, repositories, tags, and packaging guidance.

The install selectors labeled nightly chips with the Dynamo dev-wheel version
and stamped every nightly entry with MAIN_TOT, so both quickstarts claimed the
Aug 3 and older builds shipped a tip-of-main backend version they never
carried.

Nightly chips are now the last three versions of each backend, each resolving
to the newest nightly wheel that shipped it. NIGHTLY_BACKEND_BUILDS holds that
mapping, derived from container/context.yaml history on main crossed with the
wheels published to pypi.nvidia.com, joined at the nightly-ci cron instant
(08:00 UTC).

Only the tip-of-main chip carries a container command, since nightly containers
publish rolling latest tags with no date-pinned equivalent. TensorRT-LLM keeps
a single chip because it publishes no nightly wheel.

NIGHTLY_BUILDS had not been refreshed since Aug 4 and now carries the three
most recent nightlies.

Signed-off-by: Anant Sharma <anants@nvidia.com>
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The nightly dimension of the install selectors was a literal in
releases.data.ts, so it only refreshed when someone remembered. It had not
been touched since Aug 4 and its tip-of-main rows had to agree with MAIN_TOT,
which an unattended bot rewrites every one to two weeks.

gen_nightly_selector.py rebuilds that data from authoritative sources on every
docs publish and on a daily cron. The dated YYYYMMDD-<sha> tags on the public
NGC nightly repos name the commit each build came from, so backend versions are
read from container/context.yaml at that exact commit rather than inferred from
build times. Wheel pins are confirmed against the pypi.nvidia.com index, so a
skipped or garbage-collected night drops its wheel command instead of offering
a dead install line.

The generated module is gitignored and rebuilt in CI, restoring the shape that
build_install_selector.py had before it was dropped in the tab-navigation
restructure. The two .gitignore entries it left behind pointed at the
pre-restructure paths, which is how the generated file became a tracked one.

Both selectors now offer every backend version an immutable container tag, so
TensorRT-LLM is no longer limited to a single chip. The Kubernetes quickstart
keeps only the rolling entry, since its emitted variables do not pin worker
images. Unreachable upstreams degrade to a valid empty module rather than
failing the docs publish.

Signed-off-by: Anant Sharma <anants@nvidia.com>
Pushes to main already republish the docs whenever the docs filter matches,
and it matched on 43 of the last 46 days with commits, longest gap three days.
A daily trigger would almost always fire on a day that had already published
several times.

The chip set cannot go stale between publishes either: it is keyed on backend
version, and a backend bump touches MAIN_TOT in releases.data.ts, which is
under docs/ and triggers a publish in the same push. Only the newest chip's
wheel pin and date lag within a gap, and its container command is the rolling
latest tag, so it stays correct regardless.

Signed-off-by: Anant Sharma <anants@nvidia.com>
The selector emitted dynamo-planner:nightly, which NGC does not serve; that
repository carries only stable semver tags. Nightly component images live in
their own repositories, so the nightly planner is dynamo-planner-nightly, which
publishes both a rolling latest tag and dated YYYYMMDD-<sha> tags matching the
runtime nightlies commit for commit.

The Nightly Releases page listed dynamo-frontend, kubernetes-operator,
dynamo-planner, and snapshot-agent as things nightly does not publish. All four
have current nightly repositories, so the page now lists them as published and
keeps only the claims that still hold.

Signed-off-by: Anant Sharma <anants@nvidia.com>
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The change adds nightly selector data generation from NGC, Git history, and PyPI. It integrates the generated data into install and Kubernetes selectors, updates nightly tag handling, and refreshes release metadata and documentation for August 2026 builds.

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Nightly selector data flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Nightly data generator
docs/fern/scripts/gen_nightly_selector.py
Adds NGC tag discovery, historical version resolution, PyPI wheel validation, build selection, TypeScript serialization, and CLI output handling.
Generation pipeline integration
.github/workflows/fern-docs.yml, .gitignore, docs/fern/components/install-selector-data.ts
The documentation workflow generates nightly data from a complete checkout. Install selector entries consume backend-specific builds, immutable tags, latest markers, and conditional wheel commands.
Selector command and version rendering
docs/fern/components/InstallSelector.tsx, docs/fern/components/KubernetesContainerSelector.tsx
Selectors use backend version labels. Kubernetes nightly commands use the dedicated planner nightly repository, and only the latest nightly container entry remains.
Nightly release metadata and documentation
docs/fern/components/releases.data.ts, docs/fern/pages/reference/general/nightly-releases.md, docs/fern/pages/reference/general/release-artifacts.mdx, docs/fern/pages/reference/general/releases-machine-readable.mdx
Updates release records, nightly repositories, immutable tag guidance, wheel examples, backend-version guidance, and August 2026 nightly build tables.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a9a41

The PR automates nightly backend-version data, but current behavior can still publish incomplete selectors and show invalid commands or undefined version labels for some nightly entries. These issues could mislead users into unusable installations, so they should be fixed before merging.

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218-224: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle nightly entries without a wheel version.

NIGHTLY_BACKEND_BUILDS permits dynamo: null. When a user selects a non-latest container-only entry, the title renders Nightly undefined and the role states Pinned nightly wheel build. Select these labels from entry?.dynamo or entry?.commands.wheel. Label entries without a wheel as pinned nightly containers.

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In `@docs/fern/components/InstallSelector.tsx` around lines 218 - 224, Update the
display-label logic in InstallSelector around displayVersion and displayMeta to
handle nightly entries where dynamo and commands.wheel are absent: derive the
version from entry?.dynamo or entry?.commands.wheel, and label non-latest
entries without a wheel as pinned nightly containers instead of showing
undefined or referring to a wheel build.
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In `@docs/fern/components/KubernetesContainerSelector.tsx`:
- Around line 188-192: Update the Kubernetes container selector flow around the
filtered entries and entry selection so a channel with no matching nightly entry
is treated as unavailable. Guard commandFor() and version rendering against an
undefined entry, and disable the channel or render an unavailable state without
generating an install command; preserve normal command generation when a valid
entry exists.

In `@docs/fern/pages/reference/general/nightly-releases.md`:
- Line 33: Update the nightly releases documentation sentence to use
“prerelease” instead of “pre-release,” matching the terminology already used
elsewhere on the page.

In `@docs/fern/scripts/gen_nightly_selector.py`:
- Around line 266-275: Define a NightlyBackendBuild dataclass containing
backend, backendVersion, dynamo, date, tag, and latest, then update build() to
produce typed NightlyBackendBuild instances instead of dictionaries. Update
as_ts() to accept and serialize that dataclass while preserving the existing
generated field names and values.
- Around line 163-165: In docs/fern/scripts/gen_nightly_selector.py lines
163-165, update the NGC handling to catch only explicit transport exceptions,
while logging and re-raising malformed-response or parsing errors so generation
fails. In docs/fern/scripts/gen_nightly_selector.py lines 185-187, keep the
intentional PyPI no-wheel fallback for explicit transport failures only and
re-raise invalid-response or parsing errors; update the relevant exception
handlers in the NGC/PyPI selector logic without changing unrelated behavior.
- Around line 143-154: In docs/fern/scripts/gen_nightly_selector.py lines
143-154, context-manage the token response and each paginated tag response
around the existing urlopen calls, performing JSON parsing, tag accumulation,
and Link-header extraction inside each with block. In
docs/fern/scripts/gen_nightly_selector.py lines 180-184, context-manage the PyPI
index response while reading or parsing it; no other behavior should change.

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In `@docs/fern/components/InstallSelector.tsx`:
- Around line 218-224: Update the display-label logic in InstallSelector around
displayVersion and displayMeta to handle nightly entries where dynamo and
commands.wheel are absent: derive the version from entry?.dynamo or
entry?.commands.wheel, and label non-latest entries without a wheel as pinned
nightly containers instead of showing undefined or referring to a wheel build.
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Handle nightly builds with no wheel instead of showing "Nightly
undefined", disable the Kubernetes selector's output instead of
silently falling back to the current stable tag when no entry
matches, fix inconsistent prerelease spelling and the SPDX year
range, close urlopen() responses with context managers, and narrow
the NGC/PyPI exception handling so malformed responses fail
generation instead of silently dropping a backend.

Signed-off-by: Anant Sharma <anants@nvidia.com>
Update NIGHTLY_BUILDS to the latest published ai-dynamo,
ai-dynamo-runtime, and kvbm nightlies, regenerate the synced
release-artifacts.mdx and releases-machine-readable.mdx tables, and
bump the example wheel version in nightly-releases.md.

Signed-off-by: Anant Sharma <anants@nvidia.com>
The latest row's wheel used to require a night that shared a commit
with the newest NGC container tag, so it lagged whenever the wheel
and container nightly CI jobs fell out of step. Pick the newest
published PyPI wheel directly for that row; pinned rows still match
the container tag's exact commit for reproducibility.

Signed-off-by: Anant Sharma <anants@nvidia.com>

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Review of head 66b9e58: 1 must-fix, 5 consider. The generator's external assumptions were verified end to end with live probes of NGC and pypi.nvidia.com, and the publish plumbing is sound; the one blocking item is a leftover false claim on a line this PR rewrites.

Must-fix

  1. docs/fern/pages/reference/general/nightly-releases.md:33 - "Nightly deliberately does not publish EFA image variants" is false: all three *-runtime-nightly NGC repos carry -efa dated tags (21 on vllm-runtime-nightly, through 20260826-27f09d5-efa plus latest-efa), and nightly-ci.yml:333 lists runtime EFA variants among its nightly images. Suggested wording: "Nightly EFA variants publish as -efa suffixed tags (latest-efa, YYYYMMDD-<shortsha>-efa). Nightly does not publish Helm charts or Rust crates."

Consider

  1. docs/fern/scripts/gen_nightly_selector.py:370 - a total NGC outage at publish time ships an empty module silently: per-backend HTTP failures skip gracefully (good), but when every backend skips, main still returns 0 and the sync step rm -rfs the last-known-good copy, so the live selectors lose all nightly rows until the next publish. Return nonzero when rows is empty so a total outage holds the publish.
  2. docs/fern/components/InstallSelector.tsx:163 - pinned TRT-LLM rows carry dynamo but no wheel command, so the card renders a wheel-flavored title and eyebrow while offering only a container command; key both on entry?.commands.wheel.
  3. Local fern docs dev from a fresh clone now hits an unresolved ./nightly-selector-data.generated import (gitignored, CI-generated, needs network), and pre-merge cannot catch it; document running the generator first in the local-preview section, or add an offline flag that writes an empty module.
  4. InstallSelector.tsx:213 - with an empty nightly array the Nightly chip stays clickable but the version row silently vanishes; the Kubernetes selector got an explicit "Not currently available" state in this PR, this one did not (and the generator's warning text says the channel "will hide", which is not what happens). Mirror the K8s message.
  5. nightly-releases.md:46 - "emits them for each backend version" overstates: the latest row deliberately emits the rolling :latest tag; only pinned rows emit immutable tags. "emits them for pinned backend versions."

Verified sound

Live NGC probes: the anonymous token flow works as coded, all three nightly repos exist with dated YYYYMMDD-<7hex> tags, pagination handles the no-Link-header case, and the EFA/signature tags are correctly excluded by the regex. Live PyPI probes: the refreshed ledger rows are accurate against both indexes and byte-match the generated tables. The read-at-commit assumption held at three real tagged commits with real version variance. Publish plumbing verified: gitignore paths, docs-website sync, the shallow-clone guard failing closed, and the component-image name fixes all check out. All repo gates green, docs linter proven on the three changed pages with a known-positive probe.

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