What’s the policy which versions of Gradle User Guides are shown in the version picker? At the moment it is latest (8.12.1), 6.1, nightly and 8.5. I would expect the latest version, the latest version -1, and the latest version of 7.X and maybe 6.X. But not 6.1 and 8.5

Looks like it depends on which page of the guide you’re currently on

It's the latter, it shows the versions you recently visited. See https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/24004

Look for

initializeVersioning

in https://docs.gradle.org/build-tool.js It starts with "8.5,7.6.2,6.9.4,5.6.4" (why 8.5? 🤷), then pushes the version you're looking at to the top unless it's a nightly, always limiting the list to 4 values at most, and stores the resulting list for the next visit.

Oh, it’s a feature not a bug 😅 okay, nice to know but a little bit confusing

This is indeed confusing. And this initial list does not make any sense 🤦