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From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 01:38:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [3.12] GH-125722: Increase minimum supported Sphinx to 8.2.0
 (GH-130444) (#130859)

GH-125722: Increase minimum supported Sphinx to 8.2.0 (GH-130444)
(cherry picked from commit e53d105872fafa77507ea33b7ecf0faddd4c3b60)

Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 Doc/conf.py                                                     | 2 +-
 .../2025-02-22-02-24-39.gh-issue-125722.zDIUFV.rst              | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2025-02-22-02-24-39.gh-issue-125722.zDIUFV.rst

diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
index 8e7ff47b260b..582da19e6fb3 100644
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ highlight_language = 'python3'
 
 # Minimum version of sphinx required
 # Keep this version in sync with ``Doc/requirements.txt``.
-needs_sphinx = '8.1.3'
+needs_sphinx = '8.2.0'
 
 # Create table of contents entries for domain objects (e.g. functions, classes,
 # attributes, etc.). Default is True.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2025-02-22-02-24-39.gh-issue-125722.zDIUFV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2025-02-22-02-24-39.gh-issue-125722.zDIUFV.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6e20c08163ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2025-02-22-02-24-39.gh-issue-125722.zDIUFV.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Require Sphinx 8.2.0 or later to build the Python documentation. Patch by
+Adam Turner.
-- 
2.47.3