diff --git a/docs/docsite/.templates/banner.html b/docs/docsite/.templates/banner.html
index d4ece6636da..f20bdd8ee2d 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/.templates/banner.html
+++ b/docs/docsite/.templates/banner.html
@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
-{% if is_eol %}
-{# Creates a banner at the top of the page for EOL versions. #}
-<div id='banner' class='Admonition caution'>
-  <p>You are reading an unmaintained version of the Ansible documentation. Unmaintained Ansible versions can contain unfixed security vulnerabilities (CVE). Please upgrade to a maintained version. See <a href="/ansible/latest/">the latest Ansible documentation</a>.</p>
-</div>
-{% else %}
-  <script>
+<script>
     function startsWith(str, needle) {
       return str.slice(0, needle.length) == needle
     }
@@ -61,14 +55,11 @@
       }
       msg += '</p>';
 
-      banner += '<div id="banner_id" class="admonition ';
-      banner += important ? 'important' : 'caution';
-      banner += '">';
+      banner += '<div id="banner_id" class="admonition '; banner += important ? 'important' : 'caution'; banner += '">';
       banner += important ? '<br>' : '';
       banner += msg;
       banner += important ? '<br>' : '';
       banner += '</div>';
       document.write(banner);
     {% endif %}
-  </script>
-{% endif %}
+</script>
diff --git a/docs/docsite/.templates/eol_banner.html b/docs/docsite/.templates/eol_banner.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f28df49da7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/docsite/.templates/eol_banner.html
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{# Creates a banner at the top of the page for EOL versions. #}
+<div id="banner" class="Admonition caution">
+    <p>
+      You are reading an unmaintained version of the Ansible documentation. Unmaintained Ansible versions can contain unfixed security vulnerabilities (CVE). Please upgrade to a maintained version. See <a href="/ansible/latest/">the latest Ansible documentation</a>.
+    </p>
+</div>
diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/_ext/__init__.py b/docs/docsite/rst/_ext/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bb3b751bbe9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/_ext/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+from .eol_version import setup
+
+__version__ = '1.0.0'
+
+__all__ = ['setup']
diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/_ext/eol_version.py b/docs/docsite/rst/_ext/eol_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..673d2eae0ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/_ext/eol_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import subprocess
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Dict
+
+import yaml
+from docutils import nodes
+from jinja2 import Template
+from sphinx.transforms import Transform
+
+
+class EOLVersionCheck(Transform):
+    # pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
+    default_priority = 999
+
+    def apply(self) -> None:
+        env = self.document.settings.env
+        app = env.app
+
+        if app.tags.has("core"):
+            build_type = "core"
+        elif app.tags.has("ansible"):
+            build_type = "package"
+        else:
+            return
+
+        try:
+            branch = subprocess.check_output(
+                ["git", "rev-parse", "--abbrev-ref", "HEAD"], text=True
+            ).strip()
+        except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+            print(f"Git error: {e}")
+            return
+
+        yaml_path = Path(env.srcdir).parent / "versions.yaml"
+        template_path = Path(env.srcdir).parent / ".templates" / "eol_banner.html"
+
+        with open(yaml_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            versions = yaml.safe_load(f)
+
+        with open(template_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            template = Template(f.read())
+
+        if branch in versions[build_type]["eol"]:
+            banner_html = template.render()
+            banner = nodes.raw("", banner_html, format="html")
+            self.document.insert(0, banner)
+
+
+def setup(app) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    app.add_transform(EOLVersionCheck)
+    return {
+        "version": "1.0",
+        "parallel_read_safe": True,
+        "parallel_write_safe": True,
+    }
diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/conf.py b/docs/docsite/rst/conf.py
index 011ab32baea..f3465fcef5e 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/conf.py
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/conf.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 # sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('some/directory'))
 #
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join('ansible', 'lib'))
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
 
 # We want sphinx to document the ansible modules contained in this repository,
 # not those that may happen to be installed in the version
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@
     'notfound.extension',
     'sphinx_antsibull_ext',  # provides CSS for the plugin/module docs generated by antsibull
     'sphinx_copybutton',
+    '_ext.eol_version',
 ]
 
 # Later on, add 'sphinx.ext.viewcode' to the list if you want to have
@@ -227,7 +229,6 @@
 html_context = {
     'display_github': 'True',
     'show_sphinx': False,
-    'is_eol': False,
     'github_user': 'ansible',
     'github_repo': 'ansible-documentation',
     'github_version': 'devel',
diff --git a/docs/docsite/versions.yaml b/docs/docsite/versions.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..29f9fe4681e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/docsite/versions.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package:
+  active:
+   - devel
+   - stable-2.18
+   - stable-2.17
+   - stable-2.16
+  eol:
+   - stable-2.15
+   - stable-2.14
+   - stable-2.13
+core:
+  active:
+   - devel
+   - stable-2.18
+   - stable-2.17
+   - stable-2.16
+  eol:
+   - stable-2.15
+   - stable-2.14
+   - stable-2.13