diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_lint.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_lint.yml
index 6f8983e3b1..8654ca3d91 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_lint.yml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ jobs:
- name: Run lint
uses: seqan/actions/lint@main
with:
- clang_format: 15
+ clang_format: 18
token: ${{ secrets.SEQAN_ACTIONS_PAT }}
gpg_key: ${{ secrets.SEQAN_ACTIONS_GPG_KEY }}
gpg_passphrase: ${{ secrets.SEQAN_ACTIONS_GPG_PASSPHRASE }}
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 79a9f63617..124b87810e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -104,9 +104,3 @@ g++-11 -O3 -DNDEBUG -Wall -Wextra \
-lz -lbz2 -pthread \
your_file.cpp
```
-
-## Sponsorships
-
-[](https://vercel.com/?utm_source=seqan&utm_campaign=oss)
-
-Vercel is kind enough to sponsor our documentation preview-builds within our pull requests. Check them out!
diff --git a/test/documentation/.vercel/README.md b/test/documentation/.vercel/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dae6af7e14..0000000000
--- a/test/documentation/.vercel/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-
-
-How to setup vercel.com:
-
-* In vercel.com go create a new project.
-* Import it from the git repository.
-* Select personal account
-* Give it a Project Name and select Framework Preset to Other
-* Set Output Directory to "./export"
-* Set Build Command to "./test/documentation/.vercel/build.sh"
-* This option needs to be changed in the settings of the project:
- * Set Install Command to "./test/documentation/.vercel/install.sh"
diff --git a/test/documentation/.vercel/build.sh b/test/documentation/.vercel/build.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index ec979d56f0..0000000000
--- a/test/documentation/.vercel/build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2006-2024 Knut Reinert & Freie Universität Berlin
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016-2024 Knut Reinert & MPI für molekulare Genetik
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-
-set -exo pipefail
-
-SOURCE_DIR=`pwd`
-CACHE_DIR="${SOURCE_DIR}/node_modules"
-BUILD_DIR="${CACHE_DIR}/build"
-EXPORT_DIR="${SOURCE_DIR}/export"
-PATH="$PATH:${SOURCE_DIR}/doxygen-bin"
-
-# Print versions.
-${SOURCE_DIR}/doxygen-bin/doxygen --version
-cmake3 --version
-doxygen --version
-
-# Configure documentation build.
-mkdir -p "${BUILD_DIR}" && cd "${BUILD_DIR}"
-cmake3 -DSEQAN3_VERCEL_PREVIEW_DOC=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_DOCDIR="." "${SOURCE_DIR}/test/documentation" 1>/dev/null
-
-# Build documentation.
-cmake3 --build . --target download-cppreference-doxygen-web-tag 1>/dev/null
-ctest3 -j 2 --output-on-failure .
-
-# Install documentation.
-mkdir -p "${EXPORT_DIR}/usr/" "${EXPORT_DIR}/dev/"
-DESTDIR="${EXPORT_DIR}/usr/" cmake3 -DCOMPONENT=doc -P cmake_install.cmake 1>/dev/null
-DESTDIR="${EXPORT_DIR}/dev/" cmake3 -DCOMPONENT=doc-dev -P cmake_install.cmake 1>/dev/null
-cp "${SOURCE_DIR}/test/documentation/.vercel/index.html" "${EXPORT_DIR}/index.html"
-cp "${SOURCE_DIR}/test/documentation/.vercel/vercel.css" "${EXPORT_DIR}/vercel.css"
diff --git a/test/documentation/.vercel/index.html b/test/documentation/.vercel/index.html
deleted file mode 100644
index ce5f127a2c..0000000000
--- a/test/documentation/.vercel/index.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-
-
-
-
- SeqAn Documentation Preview
- SeqAn Documentation Preview
-
-
-
-
- User Documentation Preview
- Developer Documentation Preview
-
-
diff --git a/test/documentation/.vercel/install.sh b/test/documentation/.vercel/install.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 86e5412888..0000000000
--- a/test/documentation/.vercel/install.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2006-2024 Knut Reinert & Freie Universität Berlin
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016-2024 Knut Reinert & MPI für molekulare Genetik
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-
-set -exo pipefail
-
-DOXYGEN_VERSION=1.9.8
-SOURCE_DIR=`pwd`
-CACHE_DIR="${SOURCE_DIR}/node_modules"
-
-# Install dependencies.
-yum --assumeyes --quiet install wget cmake3 flex bison xz graphviz
-
-# Download doxygen.
-mkdir -p ${CACHE_DIR}/doxygen-download
-wget --retry-connrefused --waitretry=30 --read-timeout=30 --timeout=30 --tries=20 --no-clobber --quiet --directory-prefix=${CACHE_DIR}/doxygen-download/ https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/releases/download/Release_${DOXYGEN_VERSION//./_}/doxygen-${DOXYGEN_VERSION}.src.tar.gz
-tar -C ${CACHE_DIR}/doxygen-download -zxf ${CACHE_DIR}/doxygen-download/doxygen-${DOXYGEN_VERSION}.src.tar.gz
-
-# Configure doxygen.
-cd ${CACHE_DIR}/doxygen-download/doxygen-${DOXYGEN_VERSION}
-mkdir -p build && cd build
-if ! cmake3 -G "Unix Makefiles" .. 1>/dev/null; then
- rm -rf *
- cmake3 -G "Unix Makefiles" .. 1>/dev/null
-fi
-
-# Build doxygen.
-make -j 4 1>/dev/null
-
-# Install doxygen
-make install DESTDIR=${CACHE_DIR}/doxygen-${DOXYGEN_VERSION} 1>/dev/null
-
-# Symlink doxygen.
-ln -s ${CACHE_DIR}/doxygen-${DOXYGEN_VERSION}/usr/local/bin ${SOURCE_DIR}/doxygen-bin
diff --git a/test/documentation/.vercel/powered-by-vercel.svg b/test/documentation/.vercel/powered-by-vercel.svg
deleted file mode 100644
index f0e4fd3b49..0000000000
--- a/test/documentation/.vercel/powered-by-vercel.svg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-
-
-
diff --git a/test/documentation/.vercel/vercel.css b/test/documentation/.vercel/vercel.css
deleted file mode 100644
index 5389e3e7c4..0000000000
--- a/test/documentation/.vercel/vercel.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2006-2024 Knut Reinert & Freie Universität Berlin
- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016-2024 Knut Reinert & MPI für molekulare Genetik
- SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-*/
-
-@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
- :root {
- --background-color: black;
- }
-}
-
-@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
- :root {
- --background-color: rgb(230, 230, 230);
- }
-}
-
-body {
- background-color: var(--background-color);
- text-align: center;
-}
-
-h1 {
- color: rgb(135,135,135);
-}
-
-a.selection {
- height: 2em;
- display: inline-block;
- border-radius: 4px;
- background: #090D16;
- color: #C9D1D9;
- line-height: 2em;
- padding: 5px;
- width: 50%;
- font-size: 1.5em;
- text-decoration: none;
- margin: 5px;
-}
-
-a.selection:hover {
- background-color: #776700;
- text-decoration: underline;
-}
diff --git a/test/documentation/seqan3-doxygen.cmake b/test/documentation/seqan3-doxygen.cmake
index cca377ffa5..9eb5618634 100644
--- a/test/documentation/seqan3-doxygen.cmake
+++ b/test/documentation/seqan3-doxygen.cmake
@@ -32,16 +32,6 @@ set (SEQAN3_LAYOUT_IN ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/DoxygenLayout.xml.in)
option (SEQAN3_USER_DOC "Create build target and test for user documentation." ON)
option (SEQAN3_DEV_DOC "Create build target and test for developer documentation." ON)
-option (SEQAN3_VERCEL_PREVIEW_DOC "Is this a preview build by vercel.com?" OFF)
-
-if (SEQAN3_VERCEL_PREVIEW_DOC)
- set (SEQAN3_DOXYGEN_DOT_NUM_THREADS "2")
- set (SEQAN3_DOXYFILE_OPTION_POWERED_BY_VERCEL
- "HTML_EXTRA_FILES += ${SEQAN3_DOXYGEN_SOURCE_DIR}/test/documentation/.vercel/powered-by-vercel.svg")
- set (SEQAN3_FOOTER_HTML_OPTION_POWERED_BY_VERCEL
- ""
- )
-endif ()
### Download and extract cppreference-doxygen-web.tag.xml for std:: documentation links
# SEQAN3_DOXYGEN_STD_TAGFILE can be used to point to an existing tag file (cppreference-doxygen-web.tag.xml).
diff --git a/test/documentation/seqan3_doxygen_cfg.in b/test/documentation/seqan3_doxygen_cfg.in
index b569fd57b3..5ad92b5ee7 100644
--- a/test/documentation/seqan3_doxygen_cfg.in
+++ b/test/documentation/seqan3_doxygen_cfg.in
@@ -407,7 +407,3 @@ GENERATE_LEGEND = YES
DOT_CLEANUP = YES
MSCGEN_TOOL =
MSCFILE_DIRS =
-#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Configuration options related to the deployment by Vercel
-#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-${SEQAN3_DOXYFILE_OPTION_POWERED_BY_VERCEL}
diff --git a/test/documentation/seqan3_footer.html.in b/test/documentation/seqan3_footer.html.in
index ec953a3ad0..9ff969937d 100644
--- a/test/documentation/seqan3_footer.html.in
+++ b/test/documentation/seqan3_footer.html.in
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
$navpath
- ${SEQAN3_FOOTER_HTML_OPTION_POWERED_BY_VERCEL}
-
- 
$doxygenversion