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4.x Documentation is no longer accessible. There should be an archive we can access of the older docs

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03-10-2026 09:39 AM
BrentPorter
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‎03-10-2026 09:39 AM

Hello All

I am helping teach some developers who started with JavaScript API 4.3x about 2 months ago. When the update to 5 happened, the older documentation disappeared. 

Are there any plans to make accessible the previous version or the previous n-2 versions of the documentation for the API? This is very disruptive and hard to navigate.

As a hack, I can see some of the material from the Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine) but every page/link I click has to go back to the timeline which is not sustainable.

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BrentPorter
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2 weeks ago

The archive link has become non-functional again. Can you help @BjornSvensson ?

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WesleyO
by Esri Contributor
Esri Contributor
2 weeks ago

Hi @BrentPorter ,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The team is looking into it. If I hear any updates, I'll make sure to let you know.

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BrentPorter
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2 weeks ago

Thanks for looking into it Wesley!

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WesleyO
by Esri Contributor
Esri Contributor
a week ago

Hi @BrentPorter ,

I'm not sure when the archived site went back online, but it seems to work for me now. Let me know if you are seeing any issues with it.

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BrentPorter
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‎03-12-2026 10:07 AM

Hi Bjorn!

Thanks - that is great news. The instructions for self-hosting are a little onerous. Having a h

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