diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 2ecf9cbb..38062af8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -104,8 +104,15 @@ jobs:
         cache: false
 
     # Do the actual formatting check.
-    # `-D warnings` promotes all warnings to errors which leads to failure
-    - name: Build documentation for validation
+    # `-D warnings` promotes all warnings to errors which leads to failure.
+    # No features explicitly enabled.
+    - name: Build documentation for validation (no feature flag)
+      run: |
+        RUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" \
+          cargo doc --no-deps
+
+    # All features enabled.
+    - name: Build documentation for validation (--all-features)
       run: |
         RUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" \
           cargo doc --no-deps --all-features
diff --git a/src/base/name/absolute.rs b/src/base/name/absolute.rs
index a923b802..8b18da09 100644
--- a/src/base/name/absolute.rs
+++ b/src/base/name/absolute.rs
@@ -170,11 +170,12 @@ impl<Octs> Name<Octs> {
     /// This function will work for any kind octets sequence that can be
     /// created from an octets slice. Since this will require providing the
     /// type parameter in some cases, there are shortcuts methods for specific
-    /// octets types: [`root_ref`], [`root_vec`], and [`root_bytes`].
+    /// octets types: [`root_ref`], [`root_vec`], and
+    #[cfg_attr(feature = "bytes", doc = " [`root_bytes`][Name::root_bytes].")]
+    #[cfg_attr(not(feature = "bytes"), doc = " `root_bytes`.")]
     ///
     /// [`root_ref`]: Name::root_ref
     /// [`root_vec`]: Name::root_vec
-    /// [`root_bytes`]: Name::root_bytes
     #[must_use]
     pub fn root() -> Self
     where
diff --git a/src/utils/dst.rs b/src/utils/dst.rs
index cc47a581..e5d9a43a 100644
--- a/src/utils/dst.rs
+++ b/src/utils/dst.rs
@@ -5,11 +5,14 @@
 //! relatively good support for DSTs (e.g. they can be held by reference like
 //! any other type), it has some rough edges.  The standard library tries to
 //! paper over these with helpful functions and trait impls, but it does not
-//! account for custom DST types.  In particular, [`new::base`] introduces a
-//! large number of user-facing DSTs and needs to paper over the same rough
-//! edges for all of them.
-//!
-//! [`new::base`]: crate::new::base
+//! account for custom DST types.  In particular,
+#![cfg_attr(
+    feature = "unstable-new",
+    doc = " [`new::base`][crate::new::base]"
+)]
+#![cfg_attr(not(feature = "unstable-new"), doc = " `new::base`")]
+//! introduces a large number of user-facing DSTs and needs to paper over the
+//! same rough edges for all of them.
 //!
 //! ## Coping DSTs
 //!
@@ -18,7 +21,7 @@
 //! Copying a DST into new container (e.g. [`Box`]) requires explicit support
 //! from that container type.
 //!
-//! [`Box`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/boxed/struct.Box.html
+//! [`Box`]: std::boxed::Box
 //!
 //! This module introduces the [`UnsizedCopy`] trait (and a derive macro) that
 //! types like [`str`] implement.  Container types that can support copying