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BookStack / Mintlify-OSS
Simple, self-hosted documentation platform with Book/Chapter/Page hierarchy, WYSIWYG & Markdown
- ✓Built-in diagrams.net drawing integration
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- ✓OIDC, SAML2 & LDAP authentication included
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