diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
index c54fd88..60dff3f 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ build:
   os: ubuntu-22.04
   tools:
     python: "3.12"
+  jobs:
+    post_create_environment:
+      - python -m pip install -r docs-requirements.txt
 
 sphinx:
   configuration: docs/conf.py
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 02ff0d0..b4c10bf 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
 -r requirements.txt
+-r docs-requirements.txt
 -r test-requirements.txt
 
-# for the documentation
-sphinx==7.2.6
-sphinx-autobuild>=2024.2.4
-numpydoc==1.6.0
-sphinx_rtd_theme==2.0.0
-
 # for linting
 mypy==1.9.0
 pre-commit==3.6.2
diff --git a/docs-requirements.txt b/docs-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c49c262
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# requirements for generating the documentation
+sphinx==7.2.6
+sphinx-autobuild>=2024.2.4
+numpydoc==1.6.0
+sphinx_rtd_theme==2.0.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 901a400..cbe4815 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ license_file = "LICENSE"
 
 [tool.black]
 line-length = 79
-target-version = ['py38', 'py39', 'py310', 'py311']
+target-version = ['py39', 'py310', 'py311', 'py312']
 include = '\.pyi?$'
 exclude = '''
 /(