Add ref.any as a warning sub-type (#12739)

Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+aa-turner@users.noreply.github.com>

CHANGES.rst

@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ Features added
 * #13065: Enable colour by default in when running on CI.
   Patch by Adam Turner.
 * Allow supressing warnings from the :rst:dir:`toctree` directive when a glob
-  pattern doesn't match any documents, via the new ``toc.glob_not_matching``
+  pattern doesn't match any documents, via the new ``toc.empty_glob``
   warning sub-type.
   Patch by Slawek Figiel.
-* #9732: Add the new ``autodoc.mock_objects`` warnings sub-type.
+* #9732: Add the new ``autodoc.mocked_object`` warnings sub-type.
   Patch by Cyril Roelandt.
 * #7630, #4824: autodoc: Use :file:`.pyi` type stub files
   to auto-document native modules.
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ Features added
   which defaults to ``True`` for backwards compatibility.
   The default will change to ``False`` in Sphinx 10.
   Patch by Adam Turner.
+* #9732: Add the new ``ref.any`` warnings sub-type
+  to allow suppressing the ambiguous 'any' cross-reference warning.
+  Patch by Simão Afonso and Adam Turner.
 
 Bugs fixed
 ----------

doc/usage/configuration.rst

@@ -1384,6 +1384,7 @@ Options for warning control
    * ``misc.copy_overwrite``
    * ``misc.highlighting_failure``
    * ``ref.citation``
+   * ``ref.any``
    * ``ref.doc``
    * ``ref.footnote``
    * ``ref.keyword``
@@ -1487,6 +1488,9 @@ Options for warning control
    .. versionadded:: 8.2
       Added ``autodoc.mocked_object``
 
+   .. versionadded:: 8.2
+      Added ``ref.any``
+
 
 Builder options
 ===============

sphinx/transforms/post_transforms/__init__.py

@@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ def stringify(name: str, node: Element) -> str:
                 target,
                 candidates,
                 location=node,
+                type='ref',
+                subtype='any',
             )
         res_role, newnode = results[0]
         # Override "any" class with the actual role type to get the styling