[3.12] GH-125722: Increase minimum supported Sphinx to 8.2.0 (GH-130444) (#130859)

miss-islington · AA-Turner · web-flow · commit 919300e42aca · 2025-03-05T00:38:04.000Z
GH-125722: Increase minimum supported Sphinx to 8.2.0 (GH-130444) (cherry picked from commit e53d105) Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
 
 # 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
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Require Sphinx 8.2.0 or later to build the Python documentation. Patch by
+Adam Turner.

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